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A digital archive of approximately 700 booklets in eleven Pacific languages produced by the Pacific Area Language Materials Project to record Pacific regional languages and serve as teaching tools. Booklets were originally issued in print. Included with the archive is "Putting the mother tongue back into the classroom: ESL and bilingual education in Micronesia", an article by Robert E. Gibson, the PALM project coordinator for the original booklets.
"This collection of articles and interviews explores policy, practice and attitudes relating to the use of Pacific languages in education systems of most Pacific Island countries and territories, from pre-school to tertiary level. It records history ; it deals with current attitudes and prejudices ; and it focuses attention on perceived problems with the medium of education in many parts of the region."--Back cover
University of Hawaii at Manoa. Pacific Area Languages Materials Development Center
Author : University of Hawaii at Manoa. Pacific Area Languages Materials Development Center Publisher : Page : pages File Size : 49,79 MB Release : 1978 Category : Education, Bilingual ISBN :
Sandra Chung proposes that linguistic theory must recognize not one but two agreement relations—a featural relation that lies behind agreement's impact on the form of words and a configurational relation that lies behind agreement's impact on syntactic structure. She identifies the two relations and argues that neither can be reduced to the other. Chung offers the most comprehensive analysis of the syntax of Chamorro that has appeared to date and relates her proposals to what is known about analogous constructions in English, Italian, Irish, Japanese, Maori, and other languages.
University of Hawaii at Manoa. Social Science Research Institute
Author : University of Hawaii at Manoa. Social Science Research Institute Publisher : Page : 138 pages File Size : 22,33 MB Release : 1980 Category : Education, Bilingual ISBN :
Author : John Lynch Publisher : University of Hawaii Press Page : 380 pages File Size : 14,8 MB Release : 2016-06-01 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 0824842588
Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided. In addition to describing the structure of Pacific languages, this volume places them in their historical and geographical context, discusses the linguistic evidence for the settlement of the Pacific, and speculates on the reason for the region's many languages. It devotes considerable attention to the effects of contact between speakers of different languages and to the development of pidgin and creole languages in the Pacific. Throughout, technical language is kept to a minimum without oversimplifying the concepts or the issues involved. A glossary of technical terms, maps, and diagrams help identify a language geographically or genetically; reading lists and a language index guide the researcher interested in a particular language or group to other sources of information. Here at last is a clear and straightforward overview of Pacific languages for linguists and anyone interested in the history of sociology of the Pacific.