[An-lang] New publication

[Malcolm Ross]

PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of:

Borrowing: A Pacific perspective
Jan Tent and Paul Geraghty

This work is described below.

Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently
equivalent to about US$ 0.69).
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Borrowing: A Pacific perspective
Jan Tent and Paul Geraghty
  PL 548
  In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in linguistic
borrowing, especially with regard to its importance in the
reconstruction of pre-history. However, the general literature on
borrowing has been based on a somewhat restricted range of data,
tending to concentrate on the languages of Europe or the Americas. The
Pacific has not figured prominently in such discussions.

  Linguists and anthropologists have long considered the Pacific to be a
kind of laboratory because the geographical discreteness of its
cultures allows clearer inferences to be made than are usually possible
in a continental situation. Borrowing in the Pacific is relatively easy
to identify and stratify. Its study is, therefore, especially useful in
the reconstruction of the linguistic, social and cultural history.

  The scope of this volume is not solely restricted to borrowing in
Oceanic languages, but includes two papers on borrowing in Fiji Hindi
and Fiji English. Authors have been encouraged to address general
issues of borrowing from the perspective of data they have derived from
their fieldwork, thus avoiding the risk of producing a series of
largely similar contributions. The volume also includes a number of
seminal and authoritative papers on Pacific borrowing that have been
previously published.

  2003    ISBN 0 85883 532 0      xi + 330 pp

  Prices: Australia A$99.00 (inc. GST), Overseas A$90.00
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Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
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