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<div><font size="-2">PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the
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<div><font size="-2">Karen Davis</font></div>
<div><font size="-2">A grammar of the Hoava language, Western
Solomons</font></div>
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<div><font size="-2">Karen Davis</font></div>
<div><font size="-2">A grammar of the Hoava language, Western
Solomons</font></div>
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<div><font size="-2">This description of Hoava, an Oceanic
Austronesian language spoken on parts of New Georgia in the western
Solomon Islands, is the first published reference grammar of a
language from this area. The islands of the New Georgia group are home
to a remarkable diversity of languages, and their Austronesian
languages bear an unusual mixture of conservative and innovative
features.</font></div>
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<div><font size="-2">The author pays particular attention to verbal
morphology and its relation to argument structure and
applicativisation, and her description will interest Oceanists and
typologists alike.</font></div>
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<div><font size="-2">Hoava is genealogically quite a close relative of
Roviana, aspects of which are described in S.H. Corston's<i>
_Ergativity in Roviana, Solomon Islands</i>_ (Pacific Linguistics
1996). Nonetheless, the grammars of the two languages differ quite
sharply, in which ways which diachronic syntacticians will find
intriguing.</font></div>
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