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- Title
On the Edge of Grammar: Discourse Particles in Niuean.
- Authors
Massam, Diane; Starks, Donna; Ikiua, Ofania
- Abstract
This paper provides a first examination of discourse particles in Niuean, a Polynesian language of the Tongic subgroup, using data from interviews from the Pasifika Languages of Manukau project. Although there has been some research on grammatical particles in Niuean, there has been little or no reference to the structure and function of discourse particles. We provide an initial framework for categorizing the various types of discourse particles in the language, and give a preliminary account of the function of two affirmative discourse particles, haia and mitaki.
- Subjects
NIUE; DISCOURSE markers; GRAMMAR; POLYNESIAN languages; NIUEAN language; NIUEANS
- Publication
Oceanic Linguistics, 2006, Vol 45, Issue 1, p191
- ISSN
0029-8115
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ol.2006.0016