Maori : Descriptive Grammar Series

This descriptive grammar provides a uniquely comprehensive description of Māori, the East Polynesian language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Today, the language is under threat and it seems likely that the Māori of the future will differ quite considerably from the Māori of the past.

Winifred Bauer offers a wide-ranging and detailed description of the structure of the language, covering syntax, morphology and phonology. Based upon narrative texts and data elicited from older native-speaking consultants and illustrated with a wealth of examples the book will be of interest to both linguistic theoreticians and descriptive linguists, including language typologists.