Ła Pou: Aspects of a Marquesan
dialect
Mutu, Margaret with Ben Teģkitutoua
PL 533
Marquesan is an Eastern
Polynesian language whose nearest relations according to present
subgrouping theory are Hawaiian and Mangarevan. The literature
lists two major dialects referred to as northern and southern
although there are dialect differences from island to island
and also, to a much lesser degree, from valley to valley on
individual islands. While all dialects within the group are
mutually intelligible, there are grammatical as well as phonological
and lexical differences between the dialects. The data for
this study was taken from the Ła Pou dialect and as such is
a partial description of that dialect only. The Ła Pou dialect
of the Marquesan language is spoken on the island of Ła Pou
in Te Henua Čnana (the Marquesas group of islands). The aim
of this study is to provide the following: an overview of
the work carried out in the field of Polynesian phonology
and syntax in the past 30 years; a description of the phonemes
and certain suprasegmental features of the sound system of
Ła Pou; and a detailed description of the internal structure
of the Ła Pou phrase.
2002
ISBN 0 85883 526 6
xv + 115 pp
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