Pacific Languages : An Introduction /

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 availa...

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主要作者: Lynch, John (John Dominic)
格式: 電子 電子書
語言:英语
出版: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [1998]
叢編:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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書本目錄:
  • Linguistics: some basic concepts
  • The languages of the Pacific
  • The history of the Austronesian languages
  • The history of the Papuan and Australian languages
  • Sound systems
  • Oceanic languages: grammatical overview
  • Papuan languages: grammatical overview
  • Australian languages: grammatical overview
  • Languages in contact
  • Pidgins, creoles, and Koines
  • Language, society, and culture in the Pacific context-- Conclusion. Ideas about Pacific language.