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Pacific Linguistics
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language : en
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Release Date : 1998
Pacific Linguistics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Pacific Area categories.
Pacific Linguistics
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language : en
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Release Date : 1990
Pacific Linguistics written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Oriental philology categories.
Pacific Linguistics
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Author : Terry Crowley
language : en
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
Release Date : 2006
Pacific Linguistics written by Terry Crowley and has been published by Pacific Linguistics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Malekula (Vanuatu) categories.
Terry Crowley submitted the manuscript of this book to Pacific Linguistics just a few weeks before his sudden and untimely death in January 2005. Terry had been visiting the island of Malakula in Vanuatu since the end of 1999, and had undertaken studies of four languages spoken there: Naman, Tape and Nese, which are all moribund languages, and Avava, still actively spoken. Descriptions of all four were well advanced at the time of his death, though this one was the only one to have been actually submitted for publication. Naman, the subject of this linguistic description, is a moribund language that is spoken on the island of Malakula in the Republic of Vanuatu . Vanuatu is located in the southwest Pacific to the west of Fiji and to the east of northern Queensland (Map 1). Before it gained its independence from joint colonial control by France and the United Kingdom in 1980, it was known in English as the New Hebrides and in French as les Nouvelles-Hébrides.
Pacific Linguistics Series B
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language : en
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Release Date : 1991
Pacific Linguistics Series B written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Oriental philology categories.
Currents In Pacific Linguistics
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Author : R. A. Blust
language : en
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Release Date : 1991
Currents In Pacific Linguistics written by R. A. Blust and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Anthropological linguistics categories.
Six More Years Of Pacific Linguistics
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Author : Lois Carrington
language : en
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Release Date : 1987
Six More Years Of Pacific Linguistics written by Lois Carrington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Pacific Languages
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Author : John Lynch
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1998-03-01
Pacific Languages written by John Lynch and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Almost 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.
Pacific Linguistics
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language : en
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Release Date : 1997
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Index To Pacific Linguistics Series A D As At The End Of 1970
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Author : Pacific Linguistics
language : en
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Release Date : 1971
Index To Pacific Linguistics Series A D As At The End Of 1970 written by Pacific Linguistics and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Melanesian languages categories.
Borrowing
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Author : Jan Tent
language : en
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
Release Date : 2004
Borrowing written by Jan Tent and has been published by Pacific Linguistics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Oceanic languages categories.
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in linguistic borrowing, especially with regard to its importance in the reconstruction of pre-history. However, the general literature on borrowing has been based on a somewhat restricted range of data, tending to concentrate on the languages of Europe or the Americas. The Pacific has not figured prominently in such discussions.Linguists and anthropologists have long considered the Pacific to be a kind of laboratory because the geographical discreteness of its cultures allows clearer inferences to be made than are usually possible in a continental situation. Borrowing in the Pacific is relatively easy to identify and stratify. Its study is, therefore, especially useful in the reconstruction of the linguistic, social and cultural history. The scope of this volume is not solely restricted to borrowing in Oceanic languages, but includes two papers on borrowing in Fiji Hindi and Fiji English. Authors have been encouraged to address general issues of borrowing from the perspective of data they have derived from their fieldwork, thus avoiding the risk of producing a series of largely similar contributions. The volume also includes a number of seminal and authoritative papers on Pacific borrowing that have been previously published.