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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... tree 'this intelligent man' 'these three trees' The two systems of nominal subcategorisation – directly/indirectly possessed and personal/local/common – are independent of each other, i.e. we cannot predict whether a particular personal ...
... tree 'this intelligent man' 'these three trees' The two systems of nominal subcategorisation – directly/indirectly possessed and personal/local/common – are independent of each other, i.e. we cannot predict whether a particular personal ...
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... tree that includes these languages is shown in Figure 4.1, where the language ancestral to them is simply labelled 'Proto A'. It appears that POc and Proto Central Papuan (PCP) *t became Proto A *k (Innovation 1). From other ...
... tree that includes these languages is shown in Figure 4.1, where the language ancestral to them is simply labelled 'Proto A'. It appears that POc and Proto Central Papuan (PCP) *t became Proto A *k (Innovation 1). From other ...
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... tree of Austronesian. It is represented below in another format (and with an extra layer at the bottom), where each indented set of entries represents the branches into which the protolanguage above it differentiated. Proto Austronesian ...
... tree of Austronesian. It is represented below in another format (and with an extra layer at the bottom), where each indented set of entries represents the branches into which the protolanguage above it differentiated. Proto Austronesian ...
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... tree OR 'The tree is eaten in by the chicken.” As the reconstructions show, with common noun phrases the articles were *a 'nominative', *na 'genitive' and *ta 'accusative'." The perfective was marked in all voices by the infix *(in ...
... tree OR 'The tree is eaten in by the chicken.” As the reconstructions show, with common noun phrases the articles were *a 'nominative', *na 'genitive' and *ta 'accusative'." The perfective was marked in all voices by the infix *(in ...
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... tree') with a verb (or perhaps sometimes a noun) to form agentive and instrumental nouns respectively. The latter is attested in Mussau and in Papuan Tip and CEOc languages. The use of *kaiu 'tree' to form instruments was presumably a ...
... tree') with a verb (or perhaps sometimes a noun) to form agentive and instrumental nouns respectively. The latter is attested in Mussau and in Papuan Tip and CEOc languages. The use of *kaiu 'tree' to form instruments was presumably a ...
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