Spatial Expression in Caac
Subtitle: An Oceanic Language Spoken in the North of New Caledonia
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Published: Jul 23, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781501511547
Description: In this study, the author describes the linguistic expression of space in Caac, an endangered and under-documented Oceanic language spoken in New Caledonia, from both a descriptive and theoretical perspective. Part I provides a concise description of Caac grammar, presenting a first formal portrait of this language to the reader. Part II describes the formal and semantic features of the linguistic resources available in Caac to encode spatial relationships. Part III presents the theoretical framework based on and exploring further the vector analysis developed by Bohnemeyer (2012) and Bohnemeyer & O'Meara (2012).
Notes: Source title: Spatial Expression in Caac: An Oceanic Language Spoken in the North of New Caledonia (Pacific Linguistics)