Recent publications from Pacific Linguistics

[Malcolm Ross]

PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of the
following works:

Joel Bradshaw and Kenneth Rehg (eds)
Issues in Austronesian Morphology: A festschrift for Byron W. Bender

Ritsuko  Kikusawa
Proto Central Pacific ergativity:
Its reconstruction and development in the Fijian, Rotuman and
Polynesian languages

Alexandre François
Araki: A disappearing language of Vanuatu

Giovanni Bennardo (ed.)
Representing space in Oceania

Robert S. Bauer (ed.)
Collected papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages


These works are described below.

Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently
equivalent to about US$ 0,56.).

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Joel Bradshaw and Kenneth Rehg (eds)

Issues in Austronesian Morphology: A festschrift for Byron W. Bender

PL 519

This volume contains original contributions by leading scholars in
the field of Austronesian linguistics.  All the articles focus on
issues in morphology, with special attention to the interface of
morphology with phonology, syntax, and semantics, from both
synchronic and diachronic perspectives.  This work will be of
interest not only to Austronesianists, but to anyone concerned with
the ongoing debates about the role of morphology in linguistic theory.

2001	ISBN 0 85883 485 5	vii + 287 pp.
Australia A$64.90	International A$59.00
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Ritsuko  Kikusawa
Proto Central Pacific ergativity:
Its reconstruction and development in the Fijian, Rotuman and
Polynesian languages
PL 520

The main objective of this study is to determine the actancy system
(ergativity or accusativity) of Proto Central Pacific, and to
determine how this system developed in its daughter languages, Fijian
and Rotuman, which are accusative, as well as in the Polynesian
languages, some of which are ergative.  It is shown that an ergative
system has to be reconstructed for Proto Central Pacific, based on
the presence of two sets of clitic pronouns (Genitive and Nominative)
used for the core arguments of transitive constructions.  A set of
independent pronouns is also reconstructed.  These pronominal forms
are shown to be reflexes of Proto Malayo-Polynesian reconstructions.
The process by which the ergative parent language changed into some
of its accusative daughter languages is illustrated.

The following points in this work may be of particular interest:
1) a description of clear cases where the actancy systems change from
ergative to accusative;
2) an illustration of how syntactic, phonological, morphological,
and/or lexical changes are synthesised;
3) typological descriptions of three Central Pacific languages,
namely Rotuman, Fijian, and Tongan, applying Lexicase Dependency
Grammar;
4) a modification to the currently accepted subgrouping hypothesis
for the Central Pacific group.

2002	ISBN 0 85883 438 3	xxii + 213 pp.
Australia A$53.90	International A$49.00
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Alexandre François

Araki: A disappearing language of Vanuatu

PL 522

Araki, an unwritten Austronesian language belonging to the Oceanic
subgroup, is now spoken by less than a dozen people in a small islet
of Vanuatu; it is likely to disappear very soon. As the first ever
publication about this language, the present study covers all that it
has been possible to gather from it.

The core of this book is a grammatical description of Araki:
attention has been paid to its phonology and morphology, the
inventory of syntactic categories, the internal organisation of noun
and verb phrases, the semantics of aspect and mood, complex sentence
construction, and many other topics which illustrate the originality
of this language. A bilingual lexicon is also provided, as well as a
selection of texts.

2002		ISBN 0 85883 493 6		xxi + 353 pp
Australia A$69.30	International A$63.00

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Giovanni Bennardo (ed.)

Representing space in Oceania

PL 523

Oceania has traditionally been the 'place' in which great debates
about the human condition have been started, conducted, and sometimes
resolved.  The articles in this volume prove once more the vitality
of the research conducted in this geographically vast and culturally
varied area of the world. This book contributes to the investigation
of space as a knowledge domain, in particular to the linguistic,
mental and cultural representations of spatial relationships in
Oceania.  It emphasises the significance and usefulness of
cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research, and cultural area
surveys. This volume is of interest not only to cultural and
linguistic anthropologists, but also to linguists and cognitive
psychologists, and to scholars and students of Oceania.

2002	ISBN 0 85883 454 5	vii + 260 pp
Australia A$64.90	International A$59.00

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Robert S. Bauer (ed.)

Collected papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages

PL 530

The languages investigated in these papers represent the five major
language families or subfamilies (depending on one's classification
schema) of mainland and insular Southeast Asia, viz.,
(1) Tibeto-Burman with Meiteilon (Manipuri);
(2) Mon-Khmer with Alak, Bru, Chatong, Dak Kang, Kaseng, Katu, Laven,
Lavi, Nge', Nyah Kur, Suai, Ta Oi', Tariang, Tariw, Vietnamese, Yaeh;
(3) Tai with Nung An, Lao, and Hlai;
(4) Austronesian with Chamorro; and
(5) the Malayo-Polynesian family itself.

The eleven papers have been classified under five broad linguistic topics:

I. Linguistic analysis with A.G. Khan's 'Impact of linguistic
borrowing on Meiteilon (Manipuri)'; N.J. Enfield's 'Functions of
'give' and 'take' in Lao complex predicates'; and Sophana Srichampa's
'Vietnamese verbal reduplication'.

II. Language classification includes Jerold A. Edmondson's 'Nùng An:
origin of a species'; Lawrence A. Reid's 'Morphosyntactic evidence
for the position of Chamorro in the Austronesian family'; and
Theraphan L.-Thongkum's 'A brief look at the thirteen Mon-Khmer
languages of Xekong Province, Southern Laos'.

III Discourse analysis with John and Carolyn Miller's 'The tiger
mother's child and the cow mother's child: a preliminary look at a
Bru epic'; and Somsonge Burusphat's 'The temporal movement of the
hlai (li) origin myth'.

IV. Sociolinguistics with Suwilai Premsrirat's 'The future of Nyah Kur'.

V. Historical linguistics with Graham Thurgood's 'A comment on
Gedney's proposal for another series of voiced initials in Proto
Tai'; and Stanley Starosta's 'The rise and fall and rise and fall of
Proto Malayo-Polynesian'.

2002	ISBN  0 85883 407 7	x + 203 pp
Australia A$53.90	International A$49.00
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Dr Malcolm D. Ross
Senior Fellow
Department of Linguistics
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
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