[An-lang] New publications

[Malcolm Ross]

PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of:

A study of valency-changing devices in Proto Oceanic
Bethwyn Evans

One hundred Paiwan texts
Robert Early  and John Whitehorn

These works are described below.

Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently
equivalent to about US$ 0.66).

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A study of valency-changing devices in Proto Oceanic
Bethwyn Evans

Characteristic of many of the Oceanic languages of the Pacific is the
presence of several valency-changing devices. This work is an
historical study of three valency-increasing and two
valency-decreasing morphemes, presenting descriptions of their
reflexes in a number of modern Oceanic languages and a detailed
reconstruction of their forms and functions in the ancestor language,
Proto Oceanic. The reconstructions of valency-changing devices is
presented within of an analysis of morphosyntactic classes of verbs,
both in the modern languages and in Proto Oceanic.

This is the first volume in the Studies in Language Change series,
published by Pacific Linguistics in association with the Centre for
Research on Language Change at the Australian National University.

Pacific Linguistics in association with  Centre for Research on Language Change

PL 539, 2003		ISBN  0 85883 487 1		xix + 352 pp
Australia A$79.20 (inc GST)		International $72.00
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One hundred Paiwan texts
Robert Early  and John Whitehorn

The Paiwan are one of the indigenous ethnolinguistic minority groups
of Taiwan. Their language is a member of the vast Austronesian
language family, and belongs to its northernmost and most ancient
subgroup.

This volume presents a collection of one hundred texts in the Paiwan
language.  The first seventy-four texts were collected by two
Japanese anthropologists, Naoyoshi Ogawa and Erin Asai, before the
Second World War, and the remaining twenty-six were collected by one
of the co-authors of this volume, Reverend John Whitehorn, from
England, when he was working with the Presbyterian church in the
Paiwan area in the early 1950s.

Chapter 1 gives some introductory background to the Paiwan language,
and to the text collection.  The interlinearised  texts are given in
Chapter 2, and are followed by a concordance (Chapter 3), which gives
all Paiwan morphemes with their glosses and an exhaustive list of
references to their location in the texts.  Chapter 4 is a reversal
or finder list, which gives an alphabetical list in English of all
glosses, with their Paiwan forms.

An early sketch grammar of the language by John Whitehorn is also
included as an appendix.

PL 542, 2003	ISBN 0 85883 479 0	545 + viii pp
Australia A$77.00 (inc GST)		International $70.00
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Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

Tel: +61 (0)2 6125 3269 Fax:    +61 (0)2 6125 9975

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Credit card orders are accepted.

For our catalogue and other materials, see:

http://pacling.anu.edu.au (under construction)

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Other enquiries (but not orders) should go to:

The Publications Administrator
Pacific Linguistics
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

Tel: +61 (0)2 6125 2742 Fax: +61 (0)2 6125 4896

mailto://jmanley@coombs.anu.edu.au

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Dr Malcolm D. Ross
Senior Fellow
Department of Linguistics
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
CANBERRA A.C.T. 0200
Australia

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