Oceanic Voices - European Quills : : The Early Documents on and in Chamorro and Rapanui / / ed. by Steven Roger Fischer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Dewein, Barbara,; Fischer, Steven Roger,; Klein, Thomas B.,; Pagel, Steve,; RodríGuez-Ponga, Rafael,; Schuster, Susanne,; Stolz, Thomas,; Winkler, Pierre,
• HerausgeberIn: Fischer, Steven Roger,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : Akademie Verlag, , [2015]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL) , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 p.)

"Oceanic Voices - European Quills" celebrates the linguistic historiography of two Oceanic poles. The northwest Pacific's Chamorro of Guam and the Northern Marianas was the first (16th century), and the southeast Pacific's Rapanui of Easter Island one of the last (19th century) o...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Sources of the Old Rapanui language of Easter Island
• Esteban Rodríguez' vocabulary of the language of Guam (1565)*
• Translating Father Sanvitores' Lingua Mariana
• The Chamorro-Worterbuch by Georg Fritz – a contrastive description of the editions 1904 and 1908*
• Chamorro morphophonology in the Grammar and Dictionary by Georg Fritz
• The Chaifi. A fairy tale from the Marianas, narrated by Georg Fritz. A commented re-edition. Part 1: Background, intercultural and intertextual aspects
• The Chaifi. A fairy tale from the Marianas, narrated by Georg Fritz. A commented re-edition. Part 2: Linguistic aspects*
• H. Costenoble's work on Chamorro (re-)edited*
• Liquids where there shouldn't be any. What hides behind the orthographic post-vocalic tautosyllabic <r> and <l> in early texts in and on Chamorro
• Back Matter