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The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality
; ...Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Canberra: Australian...of Anthropology and The Comparative Austronesian Project in the Research School of Pacific...overview introduction) on ways in which Austronesian-language-based societies conceptualise...
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A phonological oddity in the Austronesian area: ejectives in Waimoa (1). (Squib).
; ...exceptionally rare within the whole Austronesian area. We report here on the existence...stops in Waimoa (also Waima'a), an Austronesian language spoken in East Timor. This is only the second Austronesian language for which ejectives have...
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The phonestheme [UNKEYBOARDABLE SYMBOL]-in Austronesian languages.
; Many Austronesian languages show a far greater than chance correlation between...sets show that some of these forms were found in Proto-Austronesian or other early Austronesian protolanguages. However, the great majority of n-initial...
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The Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality.
; ...Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality. Edited by James...to have emerged from the Comparative Austronesian Project co-ordinated by James Fox at...October 1997]). The general volume on The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives...
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The higher phylogeny of Austronesian and the position of Tai-Kadai.
; ...presents a new higher phylogeny for the Austronesian family, based on three independent...spatial pattern, whereby an initial Austronesian settlement in NW Taiwan expanded unidirectionally...to common sense, are a subgroup of Austronesian (specifically: a branch of Muic, coordinate...
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The laryngeal gesture in Austronesian languages: a terminological quibble. (Squib).
; ...unusual ejective series in Waimoa, an Austronesian language of East Timor. I argue that...phonological oddity to find ejectives in an Austronesian language, especially not one in the...ejectives are phonologically unusual in Austronesian languages? It is true that ejectives...
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The interpretation of tu and Kavalan ergativity.(Austronesian language )
; Kavalan, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan, has been...Formosan, Philippine, and other western Austronesian languages as well, (2) the distinction...typologically unusual. Kavalan, an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan, has been...
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Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography.(Review)
; ...Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography. Canberra: The Australian...principal organizer of the Comparative Austronesian Project of the Australian National...variegated aspects widespread among Austronesian-speaking peoples with the general intention...
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The history of faunal terms in Austronesian languages.
; ...faunal terms primarily at the Proto-Austronesian, Proto--Malayo-Polynesian, and Proto...reconstructions at lower levels in the Austronesian family tree. The basic division is...with the history of faunal terms in Austronesian (AN) languages. Because faunal terminologies...
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Taiwan, Neolithic seafaring and Austronesian origins.(Statistical Data Included)
; ...indicate the beginnings of regular Austronesian voyaging. This seafaring tradition...Key-words: Taiwan, Neolithic, seafaring, Austronesians, adzes, archaeometry The Peng-hu archipelago...Taiwan is associated with origins of the Austronesians (Bellwood et al. 1995; Chang 1995...
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