Editing Grammatical particle (section)

== Polynesian languages ==
[[Polynesian languages]] are almost devoid of inflection, and use particles extensively to indicate mood, tense, and case. Suggs,<ref name=suggs>{{cite book|last=Suggs|first=Robert C|title=The Island Civilizations of Polynesia|year=1960|publisher=[New York] New American Library|url=https://archive.org/details/islandcivilizati00sugg|url-access=registration}}</ref> discussing the deciphering of the [[rongorongo]] script of [[Easter Island]], describes them as all-important. In [[Māori language|Māori]] for example, the versatile particle {{lang|mi|e}} can signal the [[imperative mood]], the vocative case, the future tense, or the subject of a sentence formed with most passive verbs. The particle {{lang|mi|i}} signals the past imperfect tense, the object of a transitive verb or the subject of a sentence formed with "neuter verbs" (a form of passive verb), as well as the prepositions ''in'', ''at'' and ''from''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Foster|first=John|title=He Whakamarama: A Short Course in Maori}}</ref>

=== Tokelauan ===
In [[Tokelauan language|Tokelauan]], {{lang|tkl|ia}} is used when describing personal names, month names, and nouns used to describe a collaborative group of people participating in something together.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Simona|first1=Ropati|title=Tokelau Dictionary|date=1986|publisher=Office of Tokelau Affairs|location=New Zealand|page=Introduction}}</ref> It also can be used when a verb does not directly precede a pronoun to describe said pronouns.<ref name=":0" /> Its use for pronouns is optional but mostly in this way. {{lang|tkl|Ia}} cannot be used if the noun it is describing follows any of the prepositions {{lang|tkl|e, o, a}}, or {{lang|tkl|ko}}.<ref name=":0" /> A couple of the other ways unrelated to what is listed above that {{lang|tkl|ia}} is used is when preceding a locative or place name.<ref name=":0" /> However, if {{lang|tkl|ia}} is being used in this fashion, the locative or place name must be the subject of the sentence.<ref name=":0" /> Another particle in Tokelauan is {{lang|tkl|a}}, or sometimes {{lang|tkl|ā}}.<ref name=":0" /> This article is used before a person's name as well as the names of months and the particle {{lang|tkl|a te}} is used before pronouns when these instances are following the prepositions {{lang|tkl|i}} or {{lang|tkl|ki}}. {{lang|tkl|Ia te}} is a particle used if following the preposition {{lang|tkl|mai}}.<ref name=":0" />