[An-lang] New publications

[Malcolm Ross]

PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of:

Balinese morphosyntax:  A lexical-functional approach
I Wayan Arka

The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral 
Oceanic society. Vol. 2:  The physical environment
Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond

A short morphology, phonology and vocabulary of Kiput, Sarawak
Robert Blust

These works are described below.

Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently
equivalent to about US$ 0.75).

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Balinese morphosyntax:  A lexical-functional approach
I Wayan Arka

This book is the first comprehensive study of Balinese morphosyntax 
from a lexicalist perspective.  It discusses intricate facts in the 
relationship between morphosyntax and semantics in Balinese and 
highlights the significance of the facts with regard to linguistic 
theory and language typology.  It provides in-depth discussions on 
important topics in linguistics: split intransitivity, grammatical 
relations (subjecthood and termhood), phrase structures, argument 
structures, reflexive binding and morpholexical derivations 
(passivisation, applicativisation and causativisation).  This book is 
an essential reference for students and researchers (theoreticians, 
typologists and Austronesianists).

PL 547, 2003    ISBN 0 85883 537 1      xvii + 270 pp
Australia A$64.90  (inc GST)    International A$59.00
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The lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral 
Oceanic society. Vol. 2:  The physical environment
Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond

This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto 
Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian 
language family. Each volumedeals witha particular domain of culture 
and/or environment andconsists of a collection of essays each of which 
presents and comments on lexical reconstructions of a particular 
semantic fieldwithin that domain.

Volume 2 examines how Proto Oceanic speakers described their 
geophysical environment. An introductory chapter discusses linguistic 
and archaeological evidence that locates the Proto Oceanic language 
community in the Bismarck Archipelago in the late 2ndmillennium BC. The 
next three chapters investigate terms used to denote inland, coastal, 
reef and open sea environments, and meteorological phenomena. A further 
chapter examines the lexicon for features of the heavens and 
navigational techniques associated with the stars. How Proto Oceanic 
speakers talked about their environment is also described in three 
further chapters which treat property terms for describing inanimate 
objects, locational and directional terms, and terms related to the 
expression of time.

PL 545, 2003    ISBN 0 85883 536 3      xviii + 387 pp
Australia A$88.00  (inc GST)    International A$80.00
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A short morphology, phonology and vocabulary of Kiput, Sarawak
Robert Blust

Kiput is a member of the Berawan-Lower Baram branch of the North 
Sarawak subgroup of Austronesian languages, spoken by perhaps 450 
people. The entire language community resides in a single longhouse 
known variously as Long Kiput, Long Tutoh or Kuala Tutoh, located on 
the Baram river, Fourth Division, Sarawak, about one kilometre from its 
junction with the Tutoh. Very little has been published on this 
language. The principal aim of the present work is to provide an 
overview of the synchronic morphology and phonology of Kiput, a 
considerably longer and more accurate vocabulary than that in Ray 
(1913), and several hundred sentences.

PL 546, 2003    ISBN 0 85883 536 3       vii + 102 pp
Australia $34.65  (inc GST)     International $31.50
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Pacific Linguistics
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The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

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