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Publication details [#3321]

Fischer, John L. 1966. Syntax and social structure: Truk and Ponape. In Bright, William O., ed. Sociolinguistics. Mouton. pp. 168–183.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | social context | syntax1

Language as a subject

Ponapean | Trukese

Annotation

F. proposes social and cultural factors which may have been responsible for divergent syntactic developments in two Micronesian languages, Trukese and Ponapean.