Table Of ContentMarquesan: A Grammar of
Space
Gabriele H. Cablitz
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Marquesan
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Marquesan
A Grammar of Space
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Gabriele H. Cablitz
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Acknowledgements
The present book is the product of my Ph.D-project on the Marquesas
islands between 1997 and 1999. The Ph.D-thesis was finally defended in
February 2002 at the Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende
Sprachwissenschaft of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität of Kiel
(Germany).
Many people have supported me during my Ph.D-project. This research
has been generously supported by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholin-
guistics in Nijmegen and the German Max Planck society. I would like to
thank in particular Wolfgang Klein and Stephen Levinson who have given
me the opportunity to work in a stimulating linguistic environment and who
have also given me crucial and important guidance and support throughout
my Ph.D-project. I greatly profited from their discussions, suggestions and
invaluable comments on my ‘work in progress’.
I cannot be thankful enough to my main supervisors Ulrike Mosel and
Gunter Senft of whom I had excellent guidance and moral support from the
very beginning to the very end of my project, in good and in not so good
times. It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Ulrike Mosel, to profit
from her great knowledge about Polynesian and Oceanic languages, to get
‘caught’ by her enthusiasm to do linguistic field work and language docu-
mentation. Her constant inspiration and constructive criticism and the
countless hours of discussing my data and my chapters ‘in progress’, of
giving me insightful and invaluable comments of how to rearrange my
chapters and contents, and of preventing me from making essential mis-
takes. She has the great gift of being (sometimes ‘painfully’) critical, but
being extremely constructive and encouraging at the same so that one never
loses one’s own inner motivation. I cannot say less of Gunter Senft who has
been my day-to-day supervisor at the MPI. His constant encouragement,
inspiration and his intellectual and moral support have likewise resulted in
the present dissertation. I cannot thank Gunter Senft enough for reading my
(non-ordered) chapters ‘in progress’ and for having the patience to re-read
my chapters and provide me with insightful and invaluable comments and
suggestions. I could not have asked for better supervisors. I would also like
to thank Helmut Lüdtke for being my co-promotor at the University of
Kiel, and for getting me interested in linguistics in the first place.
viii Acknowledgements
My research on the Marquesan language would not have been possible
without the warm and hospitable nature of many Marquesan people. Fore-
most I would like to thank my three wonderful guest families on ‘Ua Pou
island who ‘adopted’ me as a member of their families: Samuel and Jeanne
(Mafeau) Teikiehuupoko, Varii and Hauto Huuti, Fatari and Teipu Hikutini
and members of their families who have been good friends and teachers
throughout my stay at Hakama’i’i and Ha’akuti: Amerama, Ela, Mairé and
Teiki Huuti. I would also like to thank Adelaide (at the mairie), Vaa, Pootu
Kaiha and Rataro and many others at Hakama’i’i for interesting discussions
about Marquesan life and for making my stay a pleasant one. Most enjoy-
able were my encounters with the wonderful children of Hakama’i’i and
Ha’akuti with whom I spent many cheerful hours and by whom I had many
insights into their little Marquesan worlds. I am very greatful to my won-
derful teachers Marie-Madeleine (Titi) Bruneau, George (Toti) Teikiehuu-
poko, Samuel Teikiehuupoko, Tehina (Dora) Teikiehuupoko, Ben Teiki-
tutoua and Moetini who provided me, despite their various other
occupations, with a lot of detailed and insightful information about the
Marquesan language. It is those people who were always very willing to
explain and teach their language to me and who have greatly contributed to
this work. I am very indebted to Titi Bruneau who did not only do the
painstaking transcription of my recordings, but who also introduced me to
many people at Hakama’i’i, Hakahau and Taioha’e and accompanied me to
find storytellers and other secrets of the Marquesan language and culture. I
would also like to thank her for her friendship and her trust.
I would also like to thank Maxime et Titi, Marino, Puhetini and Roberto
Bruneau, Marie-Helène, Joselito Kaiha, Amerama, Ela and Meire Huuti,
Claire et Toti Teikiehuupoko, Mafeau and Samuel Teikiehuupoko, Ben and
Rosita Teikitutoua and all the children of Hakama’i’i and Ha’akuti for hav-
ing volunteered to play the space games. Further, I would like to thank
Patrice and Hina Deheurle, Pierre Tahiatohiupoko, Raïssa and Harald Ko-
humoetini, Tahia and Patrick Fitu, Ateri Otto, Fetu Peterano, Kea (Tahia
Titi Ku'a), Mimio Puhetini, Rimo and Mama Ve’a Tamari’i and their fam-
ily, Maeva Tissot and Moeaki and their family for their hospitality and
friendship. I also had interesting discussions about the Marquesas and
French Polynesia with Heidi Baumgaertner, Ross Clark, Jacques Dordillon,
Étienne Hokaupoko, Robin Hooper, Lucien Kimitete, Denise and Robert
Koenig, Mgr. Le Cléac’h, Margaret Mutu, Pierre and Marie-Noël Ottino,
Daniel Palacz, Louise Peltzer, Père Gilbert, Kate Riley and many others. I
would also like to thank Michael Koch who provided me with my very first
Acknowledgements ix
contact with French Polynesia and the family Tamari’i on Tahiti and Nuku
Hiva. In my memory are always the late Henri (“Ritt”) Rittmeister and all
the friendly people at the Musée des îles at Punaauia.
Back at the MPI there are also many more people whom I would like to
thank. In our group I would like to thank Marlene Jonas who always has an
open ear and makes everyone feel welcome. In the technical group I would
like to thank in particular Rick van Viersen for his technical support of the
field work equipment, and everybody in the technical group for helping me
with computer problems. I also would like to thank Karin Kastens and
Lanneke van Dreumel from the MPI library for their help and getting all the
literature which I needed. Likewise I want to thank the adminstration for
having to deal with complicated accounts of field work expenses and the
like. Thanks also to Alex Dukers for being helpful in sorting out my stimuli
material.
I enjoyed many laughters and moral support from my two unforgetable
friends, Wenda Bergsma and Veerle van Geenhoven, and without their
friendship the MPI time would certainly not have been the same. I would
also like to thank Shanely Allen, Heike Behrens, Melissa Bowerman,
Penny Brown, Eve Danziger, Ken Drozd, Sonja Eisenbeiss, James Esseg-
bey, Christine Dimroth, Petra Gretsch, Irene Krämer, Ulrike Nederstigt,
Eric Pederson, Marianne Starren, Mary Swift, David Wilkins, Angelika
Wittek and Roberto Zavala for their support and social gatherings. I par-
ticular would like to thank Birgit Hellwig, Eva Schultze-Berndt, Roman
Skiba and Claudia Wegener for being more than colleagues.
Outside the MPI, very special thanks go to Liz, Teo and Sally Knab for
their unconditional friendship and hospitality without limits, for giving me
a home whenever I needed one, and for helping me in overcoming the in-
surmountable task of formating this book (special thanks to Teo). The
Netherlands would not have been the same without Katja, Jelle, Lennart
and Mariël Nieuwland (also thanks for the two parcels), Tracie Stewart and
Birgit (Pauli) Offt.
Finally, I would like to thank my father, Werner Cablitz, for supporting
my first degree, my Welsh family, and my brother Hans-Dieter who has
always just been there for me. I want to dedicate this book to my late
grandmother Hannah Taylor and my brother Hans-Dieter, for all the love
and care they gave to me.
Gabriele Cablitz
