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<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2">PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to
announce the publication of the following works:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Joel Bradshaw
and Kenneth Rehg (eds)</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Issues in
Austronesian Morphology: A festschrift for Byron W.
Bender</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Ritsuko
Kikusawa</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Proto Central
Pacific ergativity:</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Its
reconstruction and development in the Fijian, Rotuman and Polynesian
languages</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Robert S. Bauer
(ed.)</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Collected papers
on Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages</font></div>
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color="#000000"><br></font></div>
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These works are described below.<br>
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Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is
currently</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2">equivalent to about US$
0,56.).</font></div>
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<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Joel Bradshaw
and Kenneth Rehg (eds)</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Issues in
Austronesian Morphology: A festschrift for Byron W.
Bender</font></div>
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color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">PL 519<br>
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<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2">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.</font></div>
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color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"
color="#000000">2001<x-tab> </x-tab>ISBN 0 85883 485
5<x-tab> </x-tab>vii + 287
pp.</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Australia
A$64.90<x-tab>
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<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Ritsuko
Kikusawa</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Proto Central
Pacific ergativity:</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Its
reconstruction and development in the Fijian, Rotuman and Polynesian
languages</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">PL
520</font></div>
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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.</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000"> <br>
The following points in this work may be of particular
interest: </font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">1) a description
of clear cases where the actancy systems change from ergative to
accusative; </font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">2) an
illustration of how syntactic, phonological, morphological, and/or
lexical changes are synthesised; </font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">3) typological
descriptions of three Central Pacific languages, namely Rotuman,
Fijian, and Tongan, applying Lexicase Dependency
Grammar; </font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">4) a
modification to the currently accepted subgrouping hypothesis for the
Central Pacific group. </font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000"><br>
2002<x-tab> </x-tab>ISBN 0 85883 438
3<x-tab> </x-tab>xxii + 213
pp.</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Australia
A$53.90<x-tab>
</x-tab>International A$49.00</font></div>
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<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Robert S. Bauer
(ed.)</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">Collected papers
on Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">PL
530</font></div>
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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.,</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">(1)<i>
Tibeto-Burman</i> with Meiteilon (Manipuri);</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">(2)<i>
Mon-Khmer</i> with Alak, Bru, Chatong, Dak Kang, Kaseng, Katu, Laven,
Lavi, Nge', Nyah Kur, Suai, Ta Oi', Tariang, Tariw, Vietnamese,
Yaeh;</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">(3)<i> Tai</i>
with Nung An, Lao, and Hlai;</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">(4)<i>
Austronesian</i> with Chamorro; and</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">(5) the<i>
Malayo-Polynesian</i> family itself.</font></div>
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color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">The eleven
papers have been classified under five broad linguistic
topics:</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">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'.</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">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'.</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">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<i>
hlai (li)</i> origin myth'.</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">IV.
Sociolinguistics with Suwilai Premsrirat's 'The future of Nyah
Kur'.</font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2"
color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="Mishawaka" size="-2" color="#000000">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'.</font></div>
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2002<x-tab> </x-tab>ISBN 0 85883 407
7<x-tab> </x-tab>x + 203 pp<br>
Australia A$53.90<x-tab> </x-tab>International
A$49.00</font></div>
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Dr Malcolm D. Ross<br>
Senior Fellow<br>
Department of Linguistics<br>
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies<br>
The Australian National University<br>
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