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Ross Clark: Aspects of Proto-Polynesian syntax. (Te Reo Monographs.) 129 pp. [Auckland]: Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 1976. NZ $4.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Theodora Bynon
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , February 1979 , pp. 177 - 179
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References

1 Wagner, H., ‘The typological background of the ergative construction’, Proceedings the Royal Irish Academy, C, LXXVIII, 3, 1978, 37–74Google Scholar, with very full bibliography.

2 Milner, G. B., ‘It is aspect (not voice) which is marked in Samoan’, Oceanic Linguistics, XII, 1973, 621–39CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Tchekhoff, C., ‘Verbal aspects in an ergative construction: an example in Tongan’, Oceanic Linguistics, XII, 1973, 607–19Google Scholar.

3 C stands for a lexically determined consonant, on the whole identical with the initial consonant of the verb stem.

4 Hohepa, P. W., ‘The accusative-to-ergativedrift in Polynesian languages’, Journal of the Polynesian Society, LXXVIII, 3, 1969, 295–329Google Scholar.