Book announcement: Pacific Linguistics

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PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of the 
following works on Austronesian and Papuan languages:

· A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural 
space: papers in honour of Andrew K. Pawley, edited by John Bowden, 
Nikolaus P. Himmellmann and Malcolm Ross 
http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/book_pages/600-plus/615.html

· Reconstructing Proto Koiarian: The history of a Papuan language family 
(SLC-7) by Tom Dutton 
http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/book_pages/600-plus/610.html

· Grammatical change: theory and description (SLC-6) Edited by Rachel 
Hendery and Jennifer Hendriks 
http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/book_pages/600-plus/609.html

· A grammar of Abma: a language of Pentecost Island Vanuatu Cynthia 
Schneider http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/catalogue.html

· Mali (Baining) texts Tonya N. Stebbins with the assistance of Julius 
Tayul Available only as a PDF file on disk 
http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/book_pages/600-plus/606.html

A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space: 
papers in honour of Andrew K. Pawley

Edited by John Bowden, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Malcolm Ross

The papers in this volume have been presented to Andrew K. Pawley in 
honour of his extensive work on Austronesian and Papuan languages and 
cultures. They cover a wide range of topics, from language description 
to historical linguistics and from archaeology and population genetics 
to the anthropology of performance and the typology of poetic meter. The 
book provides a fascinating snapshot of current work across the fields 
of Austronesian and Papuan linguistics and culture history and the 
papers in it will be important reading for anyone working in these fields.

Link to PDF file Table of Contents 
<http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/book_pages/600-plus/615-TOC.pdf>.

PL 615 2010 ISBN 9780858836204

689 pp. Prices: Australia AUD $163.90 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $149.00

Reconstructing Proto Koiarian: The history of a Papuan language family

Tom Dutton (SLC-7)

In a 1969 publication the author proposed a Koiarian family consisting 
of six languages: Koita, Koiari, Mountain Koiari, Ömie, Managalasi and 
Barai. This family, part of the putative Trans New Guinea group of 
Papuan languages, stretches from around Port Moresby on the southern 
coast of southeast Papua almost to the sea on the north coast at the 
eastern end of the Hydrographers' Ranges. In the current work the author 
enlarges on the lexicostatistically based 1969 work and applies the 
comparative method of historical linguistics to the Koiarian languages, 
identifying shared innovations that define subgroups within the family 
and reconstructing the protophonology and about 120 lexical items of 
Proto Koiarian. He provides similar reconstructions for Proto Koiaric 
and Proto Baraic, the languages ancestral to the two major subgroups 
within Koiarian.

PL 610 2010 ISBN 9789858836099 126 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD $39.60 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $36.00

A grammar of Abma: a language of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

Cynthia Schneider

Abma, one of the largest indigenous languages of Vanuatu, is spoken by 
approximately 7,800 people in the central part of Pentecost Island. This 
volume presents a short grammar of the Abma language, including major 
sections on work class categorisation, phonology, morphology, phrase and 
clause-level syntax, and information structure.

PL 608 2010 ISBN 9780858836075 295 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD $99.00 (inc. GST), Overseas AUD $90.00

Grammatical change: theory and description

Edited by Rachel Hendery and Jennifer Hendriks

This volume comprises a collection of papers on the theme of grammatical 
change that evolved out of a workshop sponsored by the Centre for 
Research on Language Change (The Australian National University). The 
papers extend the boundaries of what has been addressed under the label 
of 'grammatical change' by applying theories and models of grammatical 
change to new evidence; by illuminating the historical relationships 
between grammar and other levels of linguistics; and by extending the 
range of languages that have been examined from the perspective of 
grammatical change. Languages discussed include Murriny Patha, Walpiri, 
Gurindji, Walmajarri, and Kayardild, Lardil, Yukulta, English, Dutch, 
German, Afrikaans, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, 
Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovenian, Albanian, Greek, Old Church Slavonic, 
Tocharian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Quechua, Basque, and Tok Pisin.

Download Table of Contents 
<http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/book_pages/600-plus/609-TOC.pdf> as 
PDF.

PL 609 2010 ISBN 9789858836082 201 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD 69.30 (inc. GST), Overseas AUD 63.00

Mali (Baining) texts

Tonya N. Stebbins with the assistance of Julius Tayul

This collection of twenty Mali texts was recorded in 2001 and 2002 and 
were transcribed and translated by Tonya Stebbins and Julius Tayul. The 
texts are a representative sample of the materials used as a corpus in 
the development of the /Mali (Baining) Grammar /(Stebbins forthcoming) 
and /Mali (Baining) Dictionary /(Stebbins forthcoming).

Mali is a member of the Baining language family, a non-Austronesian 
language family located in the southwest quadrant of the Gazelle 
Peninsula in East New Britain , Papua New Guinea . There are around 
2,200 speakers of Mali living in eleven villages across Mali territory 
or in nearby villages and towns. There are two dialects of Mali : a 
coastal dialect whose speakers are called /Abilta /'those from the old 
village' and a mountain dialect whose speakers are called /Arongda 
/'those from a cold place'. Language shift to Tok Pisin is well 
established in the Mali community but children with two Mali parents 
still acquire Mali as their first language. Only the oldest generation 
of Mali speakers (50 or more years of age) is fully fluent in Mali ; 
able to use it in all domains without ad hoc borrowings from Tok Pisin.

Both dialects, both genders and speakers aged from 30 to 65 years of age 
are represented in this collection.

Available only as a PDF on disc

PL 606 2009 ISBN 9780858836037 295 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD $29.15 (incl. GST) Overseas AUD $26.50

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