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Pacific Linguistics is a publisher specialising in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, atlases and other materials concerned with languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast Asia and minority languages of South and East Asia. Further information about us can be found here.

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Visit our catalogue page to view a list of our publications. There are also pages devoted to bibliographies, teaching materials in the region's major lingua francas, and our Shorter Grammars and Studies in Language Change imprints. We also now offer electronic publication in our e-books series. If you are thinking of submitting a work for publication with us, read our notes for authors. There are various ways of contacting us.

2010 NEW RELEASES
Please order through Thelma Sims Thelma.Sims@anu.edu.au, or check the Order page.

2009 RELEASES

Mali (Baining) texts
Tonya N. Stebbins with the assistance of Julius Tayul
PL 606
Available as a PDF file on disc
This collection of twenty Mali texts was recorded in 2001 and 2002 and were transcribed and translated by Tonya Stebbins and Julius Tayul. The texts are a representative sample of the materials used as a corpus in the development of the Mali (Baining) Grammar (Stebbins forthcoming) and Mali (Baining)
NO PRINTED COPY
2009 ISBN 9780858836037 295 pp.
Prices: Australia AUD $29.15 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $26.50.00

Discovering history through language: papers in honour of Malcolm Ross
Bethwyn Evans, ed
PL 605
This volume honouring Malcolm Ross traces his career and brings together essays by more than twenty scholars reporting new work in historical linguistics. Many of the papers concern Ross's interests in Austronesian and Papuan historical linguistic studies, whilst others contribute to the theory and method of historical linguistics .
2009 ISBN 9780858836051 513 pp
Prices: Australia AUD $148.50 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $135.00
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From Linguistic to sociolinguistic reconstruction:
the Kamta khistorical subgroup of Indo-Aryan
Matthew ToulminPL 604The Indo-Aryan languages and dialects constitute a dialect continuum, characterised by variable, non-discrete boundaries between speech communities. ...
2009 ISBN 9780858836044 273 pp
Prices: Australia AUD $104.50 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $95.00
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*Leo Tuai: A comparative lexical study of North and Central Vanuatu languages
Ross Clark
PL 603
More than eighty Oceanic languages are spoken in the northern and central island of
Vanuatu....
297 pp
2009 ISBN 9780858836006
Prices: Australia AUD $97.90 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $89.00
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The Austronesian languages
Robert Blust
PL 602
This is the first single-authored book that attempts to describe the Austronesian language family in its entirety....
2009 ISBN 9780858836020 852 pp
Prices: Australia AUD $198.00 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $180.00
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Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust
Alexander Adelaar and Andrew Pawley, editors
PL 601
This book brings together new work on Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history to honour Robert Blust....
2009 ISBN 9780858836013 554 pp
Prices: Australia AUD $143.00 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $130.00
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Worrorran revisited: the case for genetic relations among languages of the Northern Kimberley region of Western Australia

William B. McGregor and Alan Rumsey
PL 600
In this book we attempt to establish the genetic related ness of a set of some twenty named regional speech varieties of the Northern Kimberley region of Western Australia . We argue that, contrary to recent claims by some scholars, they constitute a genetic family-like unit....
2009 ISBN 97808588359935993 131 pp
Prices: Australia AUD $45.10 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD $41.00
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Books online: see catalogue
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society

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Pacific Linguistics
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
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