22.3219, Books: Anthropological Ling/Semantics: Ross, Pawley, Osmond (Eds)

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Date: 11-Aug-2011
From: Julie Manley [Julie.Manley at anu.edu.au]
Subject: The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: Ross, Pawley, Osmond (Eds)

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From: Julie Manley [Julie.Manley at anu.edu.au]
Subject: The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: Ross, Pawley, Osmond (Eds)

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Title: The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic 
Subtitle: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society. 4: Animals 
Series Title: Pacific Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
	   http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

Book URL: http://chl.anu.edu.au/pacling/catalogue/book_pages/600-plus/621.html 

Editor: Malcolm D. Ross
Editor: Andrew K Pawley
Editor: Meredith Osmond

Paperback: ISBN:  9780858836266 Pages: 602 Price: AUS $ 120.00 Comment: Australia AUD $132.00 (incl. GST)

Abstract:

This is the fourth in a series of seven volumes on the lexicon of Proto 
Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language 
family. Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or 
environment and consists of a collection of essays each of which presents 
and comments on lexical reconstructions of a particular semantic field within 
that domain.

Volume 4 examines the terms that Proto Oceanic speakers used to name 
animals and parts of animals. After the general introduction to the series, 
Chapter 2 presents more than 140 POc reconstructed names for fish, as well 
as many additional names attributable to major interstages below POc.  
Chapter 3 investigates the retention rates of a sample of 52 POc fish names 
and asks why the number of fish names reconstructed for POc is so much 
smaller than the number typically distinguished by contemporary Oceanic 
languages. Chapter 4 presents reconstructions of terms for aquatic 
invertebrates. Chapter 5 deals with terms for mammals, reptiles and 
amphibians. Again it is partly about creatures of the sea. Other than New 
Guinea, the islands of Oceania have few native land mammals. Chapter 6 
deals with names for bird taxa and other terms associated with birds. Chapter 
7 is entitled 'Insects and other creepy-crawlies', the latter including non-insect 
terrestrial invertebrates: spiders, centipedes, worms, leeches and grubs. The 
final chapter of the volume, chapter 8, investigates the semantic histories of 
several terms that may have been high-level generics or life-forms in the POc 
taxonomy of animals. It looks for recurrent patterns in the way different 
languages have extended or reduced the referential range of each of these 
terms. 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Semantics

Language Family(ies): Austronesian

Written In: English  (eng)

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