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Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications in JSTOR

Electronic facsimiles of all out-of-print volumes of Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications are now available online in the Arts & Sciences Complement of the JSTOR journal archive. The titles...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 47, no. 2 (2008)

ARTICLES Some Comparative Notes on Proto-Oceanic *mana: Inside and Outside the Austronesian Family Juliette Blevins, 253 In a recent article, Blust (2007) presents a comprehensive summary of the...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 48, no. 1 (2009)

ARTICLES Information Structure in Abma CYNTHIA SCHNEIDER, 1 This paper examines the information structure of Abma, an Oceanic language of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. Abma has four main syntactic...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 48, no. 2 (2009)

ARTICLES Palauan Historical Phonology: Whence the Intrusive Velar Nasal? Robert Blust, 307 One of the more striking features in the historical phonology of Palauan is the addition of a velar nasal...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 49, no. 1 (2010)

The Grammar of hitting, breaking, and cutting in Kimaragang Dusun Paul R. Kroeger, 1 The hit, break, and cut classes of verbs are grammatically relevant in Kimaragang, as in English. The relevance of...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 49, no. 2 (2010)

ARTICLES Southern Subanen Aspiration Jason William Lobel and William C. Hall, 319 Southern Subanen, spoken on the Philippine island of Mindanao, is the only Philippine language known to have...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 50, no. 1 (2011)

CONTENTS On the Position of Bugotu and Gela in the Guadalcanal-Nggelic Subgroup of Oceanic Andrew Pawley, 1 Guadalcanal-Nggelic (GN) is one of two branches of the Southeast Solomonic subgroup of...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 50, no. 2 (2011)

CONTENTS The First Fifty Years of Oceanic Linguistics George W. Grace, Byron W. Bender, and John Lynch, 285 The three editors of this journal since it was founded in 1962 look back at how it has grown...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 51, no. 1 (2012)

ARTICLES Investigating Motion Events in Austronesian Languages D. Victoria Rau, Chun-Chieh Wang, and Hui-Huan Ann Chang, 1 S. Huang and M. Tanangkingsing found that six Western Austronesian languages...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 51, no. 2 (2012)

ARTICLES Whence the East Polynesians? Further Linguistic Evidence for a Northern Outlier Source William H. Wilson, 289 Anthropologists and linguists have long assumed that East Polynesia was first...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 52, no. 1 (2013)

ARTICLES The Encoding of Manner Predications and Resultatives in Oceanic: A Typological and Historical Overview Annemarie Verkerk, Benedicte Haraldstad Frostad, 1 This paper is concerned with the...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 52, no. 2 (2013)

ARTICLES On the Analysis of Tone in Mee (Ekari, Ekaugi, Kapauku) Larry M. Hyman and Niko Kobepa, 307 In this paper we present the tonal properties of Mee, a Wissel Lakes Papuan language known also as...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 53, no. 2 (2014)

ARTICLES Complex Noun Phrases and Formal Licensing in Isbukun Bunun Hsiao-hung Iris Wu, 207 This paper investigates the syntactic status of nominal modifiers in Isbukun Bunun, an Austronesian language...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 54, no. 1 (2015)

ARTICLES Finiteness in Sundanese Eri Kurniawan, William D. Davies, 1 The topic of finiteness is rarely broached in the closely related Indonesian-type languages, in which verbs have no morphological...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 54, no. 1 (2015)

ARTICLES Finiteness in Sundanese Eri Kurniawan, William D. Davies, 1 The topic of finiteness is rarely broached in the closely related Indonesian-type languages, in which verbs have no morphological...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 54, no. 1 (2015)

ARTICLES Finiteness in Sundanese Eri Kurniawan, William D. Davies, 1 The topic of finiteness is rarely broached in the closely related Indonesian-type languages, in which verbs have no morphological...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 54, no. 2 (2015)

View of the Constellation Mannap, Figure 1 from the Oceanic Linguistics vol. 54 no. 2 article, “East is Not a ‘Big Bird’: The Etymology of the Star Altair in the Carolinian Sidereal Compass” by Gary...

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 55, no. 1 (2016)

The location of languages of Timor, Map1 from the Oceanic Linguistics vol. 55 no. 1 article, “Parallel Sound Correspondences in Uab Meto” by Owen Edwards. ARTICLES in Oceanic Linguistics Vol. 55, No....

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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 55, no. 2 (2016)

Figure from Tom Hoogervorst’s Problematic Protoforms: 1) Indian śula (after Bunce 1975:278); 2) Javanese suligi (after Raffles 1817:appendix);”“3) Javanese baḍik (ibidem).” Oceanic Linguistics Vol. 55,...

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Oceanic Linguistics on set of sci-fi film, Arrival

The 2016 science-fiction film Arrival features Dr. Louise Banks, who is called upon to communicate with aliens after they arrive on Earth. The linguistics professor, played by Amy Adams, is shown in...

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