Directory > Science > Social Sciences > Language and Linguistics > Natural Languages > Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Eastern > Tongan Comparitive Syntax of Fijian and Tongan Research on how a Proto-Central Pacific evolved from an ergative actancy system into modern Fijian which has an accusative one. Comparison is made with Tongan which retains an ergative system. http://www3.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~ritsuko/papers/8ical_97pr.doc Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Learn To Speak Tongan Brief list of basic phrases and words for expressing time. http://arabiatimes.tripod.com/tongan.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Grammatical Properties of the Ergative Noun Phrase in Tongan Paper exploring the grammatical status of the ergative case-marked NP in Tongan and other ergative languages in Polynesia and arguing for a new analysis based on the view that it is syntactically oblique. http://www.stanford.edu/~mdukes/Ling593MG/TonganErg.pdf Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Evidence for Grammatical Functions in Tongan A review of open issues in the grammar on Tongan in light of recent developments in grammatical theory and the analysis of Western-Malayo-Polynesian languages. http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/austro/download/dukes.rtf Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Lea 'O Tonga Tongan language lessons with many example sentences, very basic grammar and conjugation. http://loseli.tripod.com/tasks.html Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Morphosyntax of 2P Pronouns in Tongan Paper by Michael Dukes of the University of Canterbury and Stanford University examining 'second position' or 'Wackernagel' elements and their functional properties in Tongan. http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/HPSG/1/hpsg00dukes.pdf Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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Tongan Vocabulary and Sentences Tongan vocabulary on a variety of topics including basic words, place names, food and lineage terms. Also has geneologies and proverbs. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jamel/tgahome.htm Reviews Rating: Not yet Rated
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