Maori (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415022545)

This descriptive grammar provides a uniquely comprehensive description of Maori, the East Polynesian language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Today, the language is under threat and it seems likely that the Maori of the future will differ quite considerably from the Maori of the past. Winifred Bauer offers a wide-ranging and detailed description of the structure of the language, covering syntax, morphology and phonology. Based upon narrative texts and data elicited from older native-speaking consultants and illustrated with a wealth of examples the book will be of interest to both linguistic theoreticians and descriptive linguists, including language typologists.

Author: Winifred Bauer
ISBN-10: 0415022541
ISBN-13: 9780415022545
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/22/1993
Pages: 638
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.38d