<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>With the appearance of volume 6 of *The lexicon of Proto Oceanic* the Oceanic Lexicon Project closes its doors (almost—see below). </div><div><br></div><div>We published the first volume of *The lexicon of Proto Oceanic* in 1998. The sixth and last appeared yesterday. All six volumes (edited by Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond) are freely available on line at <span class="C9DxTc" style="font-size: 12pt; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/1885/106908">http://hdl.handle.net/1885/106908</a></u>. They are:</span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vol. 1: Material culture </span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vol. 2: The physical environment</span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vol. 3: Plants</span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vol. 4: Animals</span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vol. 5: People: Body and mind</span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vol. 6: People: Society</span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The blurb on the Project website (<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/theoceaniclexiconproject/">https://sites.google.com/view/theoceaniclexiconproject/</a>) reads:</span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="C9DxTc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">The lexicon of Proto Oceanic </span><span class="C9DxTc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">is</span><span class="C9DxTc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"> a six-volume series reconstructing the lexicon of </span><a class="XqQF9c" href="https://sites.google.com/view/theoceaniclexiconproject/proto-oceanic" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none;"><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: baseline;">Proto Oceanic</span></a><span class="C9DxTc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">, the language ancestral to most of the Austronesian languages of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. By paying particular attention to the semantics of terminologies, the members of the Oceanic Lexicon Project have learned much about the material culture, social organisation, and cosmology of Proto Oceanic speakers and about the ways in which they categorised and adapted to the environment. The completed series forms a comprehensive reference for anyone working in Oceanic linguistics or archaeology.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="C9DxTc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="C9DxTc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">The website also contains some background to the Project and descriptions of the volumes’ contents.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="C9DxTc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="C9DxTc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-variant-ligatures: none; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Our doors are not quite closed, as an online version of the lexical material in the six volumes is planned, to appear sometime in the not too distant future, we hope.</span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#212121"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">—Malcolm Ross</span></font></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br></span></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div><div><span class="C9DxTc aw5Odc" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; pointer-events: all; font-variant-ligatures: none; orphans: 2; widows: 2; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div><div><br><br></div></body></html>