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Map : Yandruwandha and neighhbouring languages – Introduction – The sound system – Pronunciation – Organisation of sounds – The sentence – Word classes and paradigms – Simple declarative sentences – Non-declarative simple sentences – Nominal inflection – Noun-stem foundation – Verb inflection – Bound verb aspect markers – Verb-stem foundation – Variations on transitivity – Coordination and subordination – Adverbs – Conjunctions, interjections and emphatic particles – Clitics and emphatic suffixes.

The study of the relationship between language and thought, and how this apparently differs between cultures and social groups, is a rapidly expanding area of enquiry. This book discusses the relationship between language and the mental organisation of knowledge, based on the results of a fieldwork project carried out in the Kingdom of Tonga in Polynesia. It challenges some existing assumptions in linguistics, cognitive anthropology and cognitive science and proposes a new foundational cultural model, 'radiality', to show how space, time and social relationships are expressed both linguistically and cognitively. A foundational cultural model is knowledge that is repeated in several domains and shared within a cultural homogeneous group. These knowledge structures are lenses through which we interpret the world and guide our behaviour. The book will be welcomed by researchers and students working within the fields of psycholinguistics, anthropological linguistics, cognitive anthropology, cognitive psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and cognitive science

1. The Chronicle of Bone in Bugis historiography -- 2. The definition of the work -- 3. The manuscript -- 4. The choice of this version of the work -- 5. Principles of transcription -- 6. Principles of translation -- 7. The nature of the work -- 8. The date of the work and the problem of the end -- 9. Early Western-language comment on the events of the chronicle -- 10. Previous editions and published translations of the chronicle -- 11. Commentary on the chronicle -- Appendix 1: Other manuscript versions of the chronicle -- Appendix 2: Absolute reign dates -- Appendix 3: Placenames in the chronicle -- The Bugis Chronicle of Bone: English text -- The Bugis Chronicle of Bone: Bugis text.