Oceanic Languages by Lynch John (18 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Another fine contribution to the Routledge Language Family Series. Sterling condition softcover copy in a big, fat, sprawling trade softpaper format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy trichromatic card-stock wraps. Contributions by the three authors and by several other linguists who put together grammar sketches, including by John Lynch, Malcolm Ross, Terry Crowley, Joyce Sterner, Mark Donohue, Lucille S. D'Jernes, Catherie McGuckin, Mike Anderson, Simon Corston-Oliver and Bill Palmer. The first author, John Lynch, is an Emeritus Professor of Pacific Languages and the former Director of the Pacific Languages Unit at the University of the South Pacific in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The second, Malcolm Ross, is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvii, 1-924 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. The Oceanic Languages form a closed subgroup within one of the world's largest language families, Austronesian. There are between 1000 and 1500 Austronesian languages (estimates vary), with so much structural diversity that they are best handled in two volumes, one on the Oceanic and one on the non-Oceanic Austronesian languages. This division is clear and the grammar sketches in this volume provide a cross-section through the structural diversity of the Oceanic languages which is not available elsewhere. Much of the material is drawn from data collected by the authors and has not been previously published.The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. In addition, the volume presents forty-three grammar sketches, selected from the five hundred Oceanic languages spread across a region embracing eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. The Oceanic Languages form a closed subgroup within one of the world's largest language families, Austronesian. There are between 1000 and 1500 Austronesian languages (estimates vary), with so much structural diversity that they are best handled in two volumes, one on the Oceanic and one on the non-Oceanic Austronesian languages. This division is clear and the grammar sketches in this volume provide a cross-section through the structural diversity of the Oceanic languages which is not available elsewhere. Much of the material is drawn from data collected by the authors and has not been previously published.The volume contains five background chapters: The Oceanic Languages, Sociolinguistic Background, Typological Overview, Proto-Oceanic and Internal Subgrouping. In addition, the volume presents forty-three grammar sketches, selected from the five hundred Oceanic languages spread across a region embracing eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia.…

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. John Lynch is an Emeritus Professor of Pacific Languages and the former Director of the Pacific Languages Unit at the University of the South Pacific in Port Vila, Vanuatu.Malcolm Ross is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University.…

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