Tongan

See also:

• Regional: Oceania: Tonga: Society and Culture  (15)

Comparative Syntax of Fijian and Tongan - - Research on how a Proto-Central Pacific evolved from an ergative actancy system into modern Fijian which has an accusative one. Comparison is made with Tongan which retains an ergative system.

Evidence for Grammatical Functions in Tongan - - A review of open issues in the grammar on Tongan in light of recent developments in grammatical theory and the analysis of Western-Malayo-Polynesian languages.

James & Meliame's Tongasite - - This site is primarily in Tongan.

Learn To Speak Tongan - - Brief list of basic phrases and words for expressing time.

Morphosyntax of 2P Pronouns in Tongan - - Paper by Michael Dukes of the University of Canterbury and Stanford University examining 'second position' or 'Wackernagel' elements and their functional properties in Tongan. [PDF.