The Oceanic Languages

by Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Malcolm Ross

Overview

This 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136749841
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/21/2001
Series:	Routledge Language Family Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	924
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Terry Crowley, John Lynch, Malcolm Ross

Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations List of illustrations 1. The Oceanic languages 2. Sociolinguistic background 3. Typological overview 4. Proto Oceanic 5. Internal subgrouping The grammar sketches Listing of Oceanic languages, by subgroup References Index to Chapters 1-5