The Oceanic LanguagesThis new volume of the Language Family Series presents an overview of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian languages, spread across a region embracing eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia. It provides sufficient phonological and grammatical data to give typologists and comparativists a good idea of the nature of these languag |
Contents
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Chapter 5 Internal subgrouping | 92 |
The grammar sketches | 122 |
Listing of Oceanic languages by subgroup | 877 |
References | 891 |
Index to Chapters 15 | 915 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives adverbial appear arguments banana Basic canoe causative child classifier coconut common complex consists consonant constituent construction contrast Coordination demonstratives derived dialect direct directly distinction enclitic example expressed father final fish forms function future head imperative independent indicate inflection interrogative intransitive introduced Islands linguistic linkage locative marked marker means modifiers morpheme nominal Note noun phrase object occur Oceanic languages past person phonemes plural position possessed noun possessor preceding predicate prefix PREP preposition present probably pronominal pronoun Proto questions reduplication referred reflect relative clause result root Ross sentences sequence serialisation singular speakers stop stress structure subgroup subordinate suffix syllable taro temporal things third transitive tree usually verb phrase Verbal clauses village voiced vowel woman