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Item A Syntactic Treatment of Nukuoro Demonstratives(2024) Asperheim, Margaret; Fukuda, Shinichiro; LinguisticsItem Preliminaries to a field study of Mono-Alu, Solomon Islands(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1979) Fagan, Joel L.; LinguisticsIn 1908 and 1909 Gerald Camden Wheeler spent ten months on the islands of Mono and Alu in the Bouqainville Straits for the purpose of carrying out ethnological research . His activities there included collecting a number of folktales in the local lanquaqeItem A study of Fijian grammatical particles(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1973) Shōji, Kakuko; LinguisticsThis paper is an attempt of a non-native speaker of English to look at Fijian in a different way, according to the writer’s own language intuitions. Although it is not a comparative work, included are some examples from Japanese or Polynesian languages whItem The verb in Bena-Bena: its form and function(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1970) Young, Robert AlexanderThis work gives a description of the structure of the verb in Bena-bena, a language of the Eastern Highlands District of the Territory of New Guinea. The study of the composition of the verb gives much deeper insight into the structure of the language than does the study of other constituents of the clause. This paper therefore deals only with the verb constructions.Item The structure of the Penrhyn phrase(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1968) Yasuda, AyakoPenrhyn is a Polynesian language spoken on the atoll of Tongareva in the Northern Cook Islands.The Northern Cook Islands form an area for which information is particularly deficient. Penrhyn is in the Northern Cooks and there is no grammar or dictionary of this language.The purpose of this thesis is, therefore, to discover and describe the structure of the Penrhyn phrase so that it will fill one of the existing gaps in our knowledge of the Polynesian languages and at the same time it will give an idea of the range of differentiation to be found within the Cook Islands.Item Tuamotuan phonology(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1969) Kuki, HiroshiThis thesis deals with the phonology of Tuamotuan.Three styles of speech are distinguished in this thesis, namely slow deliberate speech, fast deliberate speech and natural speech.Item A preliminary statement of Witu grammar: the syntatic role and structure of the verb(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1967) Kerr, Harland B.The following grammatical description of Witu adheres to no particular descriptive model. It is essentially a working analysis aiming to consolidate information already gained as a stepping stone to further insights into the grammatical structure of the language. It is particularly concerned with verbal constructions. Nominal constructions are less structured than verbal constructions and reveal relatively little significance to an interpretation of clause and sentence patterns.Item Palauan phonology(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1968) Carlson, Clayton H.This paper looks at determining the general phonemic inventory of Palauan. Location and history, dialectical variation, analysis of syllables, consonants, consonant allophones, vowel allophones, excrescent schwa; distribution of consonants, vowels and initial syllables without vowels. Stress, pitch, tone, terminal contour, internal juncture, text and a comparison with Oiterong and Hsu are also discussed.Item Substitutes and classifiers in Trukese(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1968) Benton, Richard AnthonyThe primary concerns of this study are the investigation of the forms and processes in Chuukese which correspond to definitions of 'substitutes’ and ’substitution', and of the nature of numeral and possessive classification in Chuukese Related concepts found in the work of later writers, are explored.The systems of numeral and possessive classification, perhaps among the most interesting aspects of Chuukese for speakers of Indo-European languages, are examined.The classifiers and classification systems are discussed in relation to each other, as well as to their functioning within the general process of substitution. Grammatical assumptions characterize the present study. Pronouns, demonstratives, pro-sentences, and other Chuukese 'substitutes' are examined.Item A preliminary statement of Witu grammar: the syntatic role and structure of the verb(University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1967) Kerr, Harland B.