内容简介
Marquesan,anendangeredPolynesianlanguage,isremarkablebecauseitsspeakersuseaspatialorientationsystembasedonlocallandmarksintheenvironmenttodescribespatialrelationseveninmicro-levelspace.Thisvolumeisanin-depthempiricalanalysisoftheverbalformsandmeansofspatialreferenceandtheconceptionofspaceinthislanguage.