Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Oceanic & Australian Languages

Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to The Philippines Pocket Tagalog Dictionary is an essential tool for communication and a great way to learn Tagalog. It features all the essential Tagalog vocabulary appropriate for beginning to intermediate students. It's handy pocket format and easy-to read type will make any future trip to The Philippines much easier. In addition to being an excellent...

Colloquial Malay: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Malay as it is written and spoken today.

Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Malay in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

Colloquial Malay is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that...

Based on firsthand data, this book explores three domains of spatial expression - location, motion and orientation - in Caac, an under-researched language spoken in New Caledonia. It offers a formal categorization of the linguistic resources relevant to the expression of space in a vectorial framework, and investigates the relations between deixis and Frames of Reference in Caac with a focus on the use of directionals in static contexts.

This book is a comprehensive grammatical description of the Vures language, spoken on the island of Vanua Lava, in the Banks group of islands, northern Vanuatu. Vures is a previously undescribed language, with very few minor published works referring to the language.

Descriptive grammars analyse the systematic elements of language, and in general this aim for systematicity leads authors to focus on categorical rules of syntax, morphology and phonology. This stands in apparent contrast to variationist linguistic research, where it has been shown that speakers produce variable patterns on every level of language. However, a key finding of variationism is that the distribution of variables is not random, but systematic: quantitative analysis of variables' conditioning factors provides insight into the relationships between different parts of the language....