New publication on Polynesian historical linguistics

[Malcolm Ross]

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PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of the
second (and final) volume of the Proceedings of the Second
International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics

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SICOL Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Oceanic
Linguistics:  Vol. 2,  Historical and descriptive studies

Palmer, Bill and Paul Geraghty (eds)

PL 505

In July 1995 the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, played host
to the Second International Conference on Oceanic Languages, or SICOL - the
second in a successful series of international conferences devoted to the
main language family of the South Pacific, the Oceanic branch of the large
Austronesian stock.

A special session of the conference was devoted to contact languages, and a
number of papers from that session have already been published by Pacific
Linguistics as the first volume of the proceedings.  This second and final
volume contains a selection of papers dealing with Oceanic languages
themselves.  The nineteen papers presented here range from descriptive
studies of the morphology, syntax or lexicon of individual languages
through work on subgrouping to aspects of Proto Oceanic.

        Together these papers give a taste of the diversity of
Oceanic languages
and the range of research carried out on this important language
family. A list of contents is given below.

2000    ISBN 0 85883 476 6
AUS $93.00      ($85.00)
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Part 1:  Proto Oceanic studies

1 Star, wind, and wave: searching for early Oceanic navigation terms
Meredith Osmond

2 Where did suli come from? A study of the words connected to taro
    plants in Oceanic languages
Ritsuko Kikusawa

3 The true prepositions/casemarkers in Proto Oceanic
Joseph C. Finney


Part 2:  Languages of Melanesia

4 Sit, stand, lie: posture verbs and imperfectives
Robert Early

5 'Come' and 'go' in Kilivila
Gunter Senft

6 Roviana clauses
Evelyn M. Todd

7 Linguistic subgrouping in Vanuatu and New Caledonia
John Lynch

8 How did Erromangan verbs get so messy?
Terry Crowley

9 'Adjectives' in Tamambo, Malo: syntactic variation, semantic and
    discourse correlation
Dorothy Jauncey

10 Some Raga vocabulary for terrestrial invertebrates, reptiles and
    mammals of North Pentecost
D.S. Walsh, Richard Leona, Wendy Pond

11 Postmodification and the structure of relatives in Nêlêmwa and other
    Kanak languages of New Caledonia
Isabelle Bril

12 Un exemple de morphosyntaxe en Nengone (Nouvelle-Caledonie):
    les variations morphologiques et la transitivité
R. Davel Cawa

Part 3:  Central Pacific languages

13 Two be's or not two be's? On the copulas of Wayan Fijian
Andrew Pawley

14 The dialects of the Yasawa Islands of Fiji
Geraldine Triffitt

15 Kuhane and 'aitu. Two cognate Polynesian terms which exclude
    each other
Horst Cain and Annette Bierbach

16 Cia-words in Tokelauan
Even Hovdhaugen

17 Ergative case avoidance in East Futunan (Efu)
Claire Moyse-Faurie

18 Gahua he tohi vagahau Niue: Niue dictionary project: orthography and
    vowel quality