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 |
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... demonstratives 2.4 Numerals and number-marking 2.5 Adjectives and nominal modifiers 2.6 Basic noun phrase structure 2.7 Possession 2.8 Relative clauses Verbs and verb phrases 3.1 Verbal derivation and inflection 3.2 Basic verb phrase ...
... demonstratives 2.4 Numerals and number-marking 2.5 Adjectives and nominal modifiers 2.6 Basic noun phrase structure 2.7 Possession 2.8 Relative clauses Verbs and verb phrases 3.1 Verbal derivation and inflection 3.2 Basic verb phrase ...
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... demonstratives Many Oceanic languages have articles that precede a noun phrase. These often make a distinction between singular and plural, and between common and proper, and Sometimes make a more fine-grained set of semantic contrasts ...
... demonstratives Many Oceanic languages have articles that precede a noun phrase. These often make a distinction between singular and plural, and between common and proper, and Sometimes make a more fine-grained set of semantic contrasts ...
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... demonstratives The first element of the POc noun phrase was often an article, and, like many Oceanic languages, POc apparently used one article with personal nouns and another with common non-human nouns (and no article at all with ...
... demonstratives The first element of the POc noun phrase was often an article, and, like many Oceanic languages, POc apparently used one article with personal nouns and another with common non-human nouns (and no article at all with ...
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... southern Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Somewhat embarrassing for this explanation is the fact that in Ambae na marks the transitive object, and a the subject. POc demonstratives almost certainly came at the end of their PROTO OCEANIC 71.
... southern Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Somewhat embarrassing for this explanation is the fact that in Ambae na marks the transitive object, and a the subject. POc demonstratives almost certainly came at the end of their PROTO OCEANIC 71.
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... demonstratives as articles seems reasonably common in the world's languages, the contrast being maintained by stress on locatives and demonstratives but not on articles (cf. Himmelmann 1997). 3.2.4 Numerals and number-marking The POc ...
... demonstratives as articles seems reasonably common in the world's languages, the contrast being maintained by stress on locatives and demonstratives but not on articles (cf. Himmelmann 1997). 3.2.4 Numerals and number-marking The POc ...
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