Recently added articles from Oceanic Linguistics:
Some comparative notes on Proto-Oceanic *mana: inside and outside the Austronesian family.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; Blevins, Juliette ... 1. INTRODUCTION. (1) In a recent article, Blust (2007) presents a comprehensive summary of the etymology of Proto-Oceanic *mana 'potent, effectual; supernatural power'. Blust (2007) highlights an ancient association between Proto-Oceanic *mana 'supernatural power' and the powerful forces ...
A reanalysis of Wuvulu phonology.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; Blust, Robert ... 1. INTRODUCTION. (1) Wuvulu is spoken on the island of Wuvulu (called "Maty" in the early twentieth-century literature), some 180 miles west of Manus in the Admiralty Islands of western Melanesia. Together with the Aua dialect, spoken on an island of the same name about 25 miles to the ...
Liquid vocalization and loss in Central Vanuatu.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; Lynch, John ... 1. INTRODUCTION. (1) In this paper, I examine cases of liquid vocalization and loss in a number of central Vanuatu languages. Vocalization of l is found in a number of languages around the world: in some varieties of English it occurs in syllable coda position (Borowsky and Horvath 1997, ...
Whence the Austronesian indirect possession construction?(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; Donohue, Mark ... 1. THE PROBLEM OF OCEANIC POSSESSION WITHIN AUSTRONESIAN. (1) Most Austronesian languages of the Pacific have a complex system of possession that contrasts direct with indirect strategies, and have multiple classifiers for the indirect possession (Lynch, Ross, and Crowley 2002). This is ...
Daniel Macdonald and the "Compromise Literary Dialect" in Efate, Central Vanuatu.(Critical essay)
Dec 01, 2008; Thieberger, Nick ... 1. INTRODUCTION. (1) For north and west Efate, in what was then the central New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), the most significant historical sources for the late nineteenth century are the writings, published and unpublished, of the Reverend Daniel Macdonald (1846-1927) of the Presbyterian ...
Subject agreement in Marovo: diachronic explanations of synchronic conditions.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; Evans, Bethwyn ... 1. INTRODUCTION. (1) A characteristic of many Oceanic languages is preverbal markers that indicate the person and number of the subject argument. In (1) from Marovo, the form gu indicates that the subject argument is 1SG. In this example, the subject is also expressed by the 1SG ...
A conservative vowel phoneme inventory of Sumatra: the case of Besemah.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; McDonnell, Bradley ... 1. INTRODUCTION. (1) The Besemah (2) vowel phoneme inventory is striking as it evinces the smallest vowel inventory of any Malayic language of Sumatra described to date: the vowel phonemes of Besemah are /i, u, a/ with the addition of the phonetically inserted pepet vowel occurring with a ...
The language of Lapita: Vanuatu and an early Papuan presence in the pacific.(Squib)(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; Donohue, Mark ... 1. THE QUESTION OF VANUATU. (1) Unlike the Solomons, where four non-Austronesian languages can still be found, or the offshore islands of Papua New Guinea, where a couple of dozen non-Austronesian languages survive, the linguistic landscape in Vanuatu is uniformly Austronesian. Further, ...
Remote Melanesia: one history or two? An addendum to Donohue and Denham.(Squib)( )(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; Blust, Robert ... 1. INTRODUCTION. (1) In Blust (2005) I raised what I thought was a long overdue question, namely why is it that most widely accepted models for the settlement of Remote Oceania fail to account in any straightforward way for the attested distribution of human phenotypes, distinctive ...
Ruben Stoel. 2005. Focus in Manado Malay: Grammar, particles, and intonation.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; Riehl, Anastasia K. ... Ruben Stoel. 2005. Focus in Manado Malay: Grammar, particles, and intonation. Leiden: CNWS Publications. 281 pp. ISBN: 90-5789-101-8. 27.60 [euro], paper. Manado Malay is a language spoken primarily in the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi, deriving ...
Fritz Schulze and Holger Warnk, eds. 2006. Insular Southeast Asia: Linguistic and cultural studies in honour of Bernd Nothofer.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; Mueller, Franz ... Fritz Schulze and Holger Warnk, eds. 2006. Insular Southeast Asia: Linguistic and cultural studies in honour of Bernd Nothofer. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. xx + 190 pp. ISBN 978-3-447-05477-5. 58.00 [euro], paper. This is a festschrift for ...
Elizabeth Zeitoun, ed. 2004. Fait de langues: Revue de linguistique no 23-24: Les langues austronesiennes.(Book review)
Dec 01, 2008; Geraghty, Paul ... Elizabeth Zeitoun, ed. 2004. Fait de langues: Revue de linguistique no 23-24: Les langues austronesiennes. Paris: OPHRYS, avec le concours du Centre National du Livre et du CNRS. 473 pp. + 2 pp. advertisements, 2 pp. maps. 53,00 [euro] (France), 63,00 ...
