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oapen-20.500.12657-275352021-11-09T09:03:10Z Pacific Languages Lynch, John Languages Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided. In addition to describing the structure of Pacific languages, this volume places them in their historical and geographical context, discusses the linguistic evidence for the settlement of the Pacific, and speculates on the reason for the region's many languages. 2018-10-01 23:55:55 2020-03-19 03:00:35 2020-04-01T11:56:23Z 2020-04-01T11:56:23Z 2018-11-19 book 1002472 OCN: 605554571 9780824842581;9780824881832 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/27535 eng application/pdf n/a 1002472.pdf University of Hawai'i Press 10.2307/j.ctv893h2b 103639 10.2307/j.ctv893h2b 3fe12fec-6f5e-4c52-b268-b65ab05c85d3 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780824842581;9780824881832 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 103639 KU Open Services Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided.
In addition to describing the structure of Pacific languages, this volume places them in their historical and geographical context, discusses the linguistic evidence for the settlement of the Pacific, and speculates on the reason for the region's many languages.
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