Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia
Author: Malcolm Ross
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 510
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Author: Malcolm Ross
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 510
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 1028
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Lynch
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 942
ISBN-13: 0700711287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. Part of 2 vol set. Author Ross from ANU.
Author: Malcolm Ross
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 512
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Lynch
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2016-06-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0824842588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlmost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided. In addition to describing the structure of Pacific languages, this volume places them in their historical and geographical context, discusses the linguistic evidence for the settlement of the Pacific, and speculates on the reason for the region's many languages. It devotes considerable attention to the effects of contact between speakers of different languages and to the development of pidgin and creole languages in the Pacific. Throughout, technical language is kept to a minimum without oversimplifying the concepts or the issues involved. A glossary of technical terms, maps, and diagrams help identify a language geographically or genetically; reading lists and a language index guide the researcher interested in a particular language or group to other sources of information. Here at last is a clear and straightforward overview of Pacific languages for linguists and anyone interested in the history of sociology of the Pacific.
Author: Peter Bellwood
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2006-09-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1920942858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Austronesian-speaking population of the world are estimated to number more than 270 million people, living in a broad swathe around half the globe, from Madagascar to Easter Island and from Taiwan to New Zealand. The seventeen papers in this volume provide a general survey of these diverse populations focusing on their common origins and historical transformations. The papers examine current ideas on the linguistics, prehistory, anthropology and recorded history of the Austronesians.
Author: John Lynch
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 334
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Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 864
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger M. Keesing
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780804714501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTopics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages.
Author: Andrew Pawley
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 694
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