Research Catalog

Title

Discovering history through language : papers in honour of Malcolm Ross / edited by Bethwyn Evans.

Publication

Canberra : Pacific Linguistics, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Evans, Bethwyn

Description

xi, 500 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Pacific linguistics ; 605

Uniform Title

Pacific linguistics 605.

Subjects

• Festschriften
• Linguistic change
• Anthropological linguistics
• Historical linguistics
• Ross, Malcolm

Genre/Form

Festschriften

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Malcolm Ross: an appreciation / Bethwyn Evans -- Malcolm Ross: a bibliography -- Remapping the Austronesian expansion / Roger Blench -- The historical value of single words / Robert Blust -- Beyond pronouns: further evidence for South Bougainville / Bethwyn Evans -- The languages of Vanikoro: three lexicons and one grammar / Alexandre François -- Expanding character sets for phylogeny: a Slavic test case / Johanna Nichols -- Greenberg's Indo-Pacific hypothesis: an assessment / Andrew Pawley -- A connection between Bird's Head and (Proto) Oceanic / Ger Reesink -- How many branches in a tree? Cua and East (North) Bahnaric / Paul Sidwell -- Binanderean as a member of the Trans New Guinea family / Jacinta Smallhorn -- The Papuan languages of the Eastern Bismarcks: migration, origins and connections / Tonya N. Stebbins -- On the zero (voice) prefix and bare verbs in Austronesian languages of Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia / I Wayan Arka -- Dental discrepancies and the sound of Proto Austronesian / Mark Donohue -- Deictic to relativiser in Oceanic / Robert Early -- Nasal strengthening in the Fijian languages / Paul Geraghty -- On reconstructing pronominal proto-paradigms: methodological considerations from the Pama-Nyungan language family of Australia / Harold Koch -- Yet more Proto Austronesian infixes / Paul Jen-kuei Li and Shigeru Tsuchida -- Proprietives in Oceanic / Frantisek Lichtenberk -- At sixes and sevens: the development of numeral systems in Vanuatu and New Caledonia / John Lynch -- Spread of the Saliba-Logea Plural marker / Anna Margetts -- Verbs of perception in Proto Oceanic / Meredith Osmond and Andrew Pawley -- The reconstruction of a dual pronoun to proto Malayo-Polynesian / Lawrence A. Reid -- From ki-N 'get N' in Formosan languages to ki-V 'get V-ed' (passive) in Rukai, paiwan and Puyuma / Elizabeth Zeitoun and Stacy F. Teng.

ISBN

• 085883605X (pbk)
• 9780858836051 (pbk)

LCCN

^^2010398534

OCLC

• 472607803
• SCSB-11797920

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library