Pacific Linguistics - recent publications

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*The following are recently published books on Austronesian and Papuan 
languages from PACIFIC LINGUISTICS. To place an order, please go to* 
http://pacling.anu.edu.au/order/order.html

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Tamambo, the language of west Malo, Vanuatu

Dorothy G. Jauncey

Tamambo is a previously undescribed language of northern Vanuatu, now 
spoken by approximately 4000 people. It is a conservative Oceanic 
language, reflecting many of the consonant phonemes posited for Proto 
Oceanic (POc); lexically, many Tamambo words are reflexes of those 
posited for POc. This is a grammatical description of Tamambo; it is a 
nominative-accusative language, and is primarily head-marking.

The description includes analysis of the considerable derivational 
morphology, possessive constructions, serial verb constructions, and an 
animacy hierarchy that interrelates with various aspects of the grammar. 
Five texts from various oral genres are included.

PL 622

2011

ISBN 9780858836334

479 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD $110.00 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $100.00

The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral 
Oceanic society. 4: Animals

Edited by Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond

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.

PL 621

2011

ISBN 9780858836266

602 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD $132.00 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $120.00

Meyah: a language of West Papua, Indonesia

Gilles Gravelle

This book is the first detailed linguistic description of the Meyah 
language. The Meyah people live in the eastern Bird's Head region of 
Papua, Indonesia. Although the Meyah had early contact with Western 
people, specifically the British in the early 18th century and the Dutch 
in the early 19th century, very little has been written on the language 
or the people. Indeed, until recently the entire Bird's Head region was 
the most understudied area of New Guinea in relation to language, 
ethnography, and the natural sciences. The region is of particular 
linguistic interest because of its location which forms a convergence 
zone between Austronesian and Papuan languages. Long term contact 
between the two linguistic families shows an interesting hybridization 
between Austronesian and Papuan language features. This description of 
the Meyah language provides a synchronic snapshot of such diachronic 
changes taking place in what is presumably a Papuan language. The book 
begins with a brief comparison between two closely related dialects, 
Meyah and Moskona. Meyah became a north-coast oriented society, whereas 
Moskona remained isolated between the southern flank of the Arfak 
Mountains and the coastal lowlands. Additionally, there are many 
comparisons made with other eastern Bird's Head languages, such as the 
amazing array of phonological systems, with at least four different 
supra-segmental systems briefly mentioned.

PL 619

2011

ISBN 9780858836259

338 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD $104.50 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $95.00

East Nusantara: typological and areal analyses

Michael C. Ewing and Marian Klamer, editors

'East Nusantara', the name used in the title of this book, refers to the 
islands of eastern Indonesia and East Timor. 'Nusantara' is a term that 
has come to refer to the Indo-Malaysian archipelago generally, without 
reference to national borders. For the purpose of this volume, we define 
East Nusantara as a geographical area that extends from Sumbawa in the 
west, across the islands of East Nusa Tenggara and Maluku, including 
Halmahera, to the Bird's Head of New Guinea in the east. In the 
northwest, the area is bounded by Sulawesi. Some 400 languages are 
spoken in East Nusantara, most of which are endangered in terms of 
numbers of speakers, and the majority of which have not yet been 
described. Linguistically this geographic region displays great genetic 
diversity, being the meeting ground of languages belonging to the 
Austronesian and Papuan language families. Yet, similarities cut across 
language family boundaries, giving rise to the notion of a linguistic 
area or Sprachbund. In chapter one, we present a brief history of the 
region and an overview of recent research that has had East Nusantara in 
its scope. This serves as a general background for the chapters on 
individual languages that make up the rest of the volume. The strong 
focus on presenting new data from a range of previously underdocumented 
languages in the region also provides valuable input for further 
comparative work. Taken together these chapters demonstrate the 
significance of East Nusantara as a region of linguistic enquiry. At the 
same time, they highlight the ability of ongoing investigations, both 
empirical and theoretical, to help us continue refining the notion of 
East Nusantara as a linguistic area.

PL 618

2010

ISBN 9780858836105

319 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD $96.80 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $88.00

Papers on six languages of Papua New Guinea

Joan Hooley (editor)

This book contains six articles written about grammatical and discourse 
features of New Guinea languages. The articles are 'Yongkom discourse: 
ergativity and topic' by Steve Christensen, 'Participant reference in 
Namia' by Becky Feldpausch, 'Elements of sentence construction and 
cohesion in Awad Bing' by Carolyn Finamor, 'Tense and mood pairs in 
Umbu-Ungu' by June Head, 'Can verbs be cohesive? The multiple roles of 
wiing 'do' in Mangga Buang discourse' by Joan Hooley, and 'Ergative in 
Numanggang' by David Hynum. Two of these languages, Awad Bing and Mangga 
Buang, are Austronesian. Three belong to the Trans New Guinea family: 
Yongkom belongs to the Ok language group, Umbu-Ungu to the Chimbu-Wahgi 
(East Central Highlands) group and Numanggang to the Erap subgroup of 
the Finisterre-Huon group. Namia belongs to the Yellow River subgroup of 
the Middle Sepik family. The authors have all worked with the Summer 
Institute of Linguistics in Papua New Guinea, each living for 
significant periods in the community about whose language they have 
written.

PL 616

2010

ISBN 9780858836211

164 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD $55.00 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $50.00

Endangered Austronesian, Papuan and Australian Aboriginal languages: 
essays on language documentation, archiving and revitalization

Gunter Senft, editor

The contributions to this book concern the documentation and 
revitalization of endangered languages and the archiving of documented 
language materials. The anthology focuses mainly on endangered Oceanic 
languages, with articles on Vanuatu by Darrell Tryon and the Marquesas 
by Gabriele Cablitz, on situations of loss and gain by Ingjerd Hoëm and 
on the Kilivila language of the Trobriands by the editor. Nick 
Thieberger, Peter Wittenburg and Paul Trilsbeek, and David Blundell and 
colleagues write about aspects of linguistic archiving. Under the rubric 
of revitalization, Margaret Florey and Michael Ewing write about Maluku, 
Jakelin Troy and Michael Walsh about Australian Aboriginal languages in 
southeastern Australia, whilst three articles, by Sophie Nock, Diane 
Johnson and Winifred Crombie concern the revitalization of Ma-ori.

PL 617

2010

ISBN 9780858836235

227 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD $66.00 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $60.00

A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space: 
papers in honour of Andrew K. Pawley

Edited by John Bowden, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Malcolm Ross

The papers in this volume have been presented to Andrew K. Pawley in 
honour of his extensive work on Austronesian and Papuan languages and 
cultures. They cover a wide range of topics, from language description 
to historical linguistics and from archaeology and population genetics 
to the anthropology of performance and the typology of poetic meter. The 
book provides a fascinating snapshot of current work across the fields 
of Austronesian and Papuan linguistics and culture history and the 
papers in it will be important reading for anyone working in these fields.

Link to PDF file Table of Contents 
<http://pacling.anu.edu.au/catalogue/book_pages/600-plus/615-TOC.pdf>.

PL 615

2010

ISBN 9780858836204

689 pp.

Prices: Australia AUD $163.90 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $149.00

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