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Samoan Reference Grammar is the first extensive grammar of Samoan, by number of speakers the largest Polynesian language. The grammar is divided into eighteen chapters which cover phonetics, phonology, and orthography, word classification and morphology, the syntax of various types of phrases, simple clause structure, nominalization, dependent clauses, coordination, and finally, case marking and grammatical relations. The descriptive framework is not tied to a particular linguistic theory, but is based on the empirical findings of linguistic typology during the last two decades. The grammar is descriptive in the sense that it takes the Samoan ways of expression as the starting point of analysis and describes the meanings which are encoded by the various types of construction.
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| 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| 2 | Phonology and Orthography | 19 |
| 3 | The Sentence: A Preliminary View | 49 |
| 4 | Word Classes | 69 |
| 5 | Morphology | 165 |
| 6 | The Noun Phrase | 251 |
| 7 | The Verb Phrase | 329 |
| 8 | Semi-Verbal Phrases | 403 |
| 9 | Basic Verbal Clauses | 413 |
| 10 | Non-Basic Verbal Clauses | 453 |
| 11 | Nominal Clauses and Their Negation | 499 |
| 12 | Semi-Verbal Clauses | 523 |
| 13 | Nominalised Verbal Clauses | 529 |
| 14 | Semi-Nominalised Verbal Clauses | 581 |
| 15 | Complex Sentences With Embedded Clauses | 585 |
| 16 | Complex Sentences With Dependent Non-Embedded Clauses | 651 |
| 17 | Coordination | 675 |
| 18 | Case Marking and Grammatical Relations | 693 |
| Word list | 775 | |
| Index of grammatical terms | 797 | |
| Bibliography | 809 |
Overview
Samoan Reference Grammar is the first extensive grammar of Samoan, by number of speakers the largest Polynesian language. The grammar is divided into eighteen chapters which cover phonetics, phonology, and orthography, word classification and morphology, the syntax of various types of phrases, simple clause structure, nominalization, dependent clauses, coordination, and finally, case marking and grammatical relations. The descriptive framework is not tied to a particular linguistic theory, but is based on the ...