About Pacific Linguistics
Pacific Linguistics is a publisher specialising in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, atlases, bibliographies and other materials concerned with languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. We also publish language learning materials in the region’s major lingua francas.
Since its establishment in 1963 through an initial grant from the Hunter Douglas Fund, Pacific Linguistics has published about six hundred books. For a little more history, click here. These pages also include information about our logo, our staff, our Editorial Board, our commercial status and our status with DEEWR (for Australian academics).
The authors and editors of our publications are drawn from a wide range of institutions around the world, and our publications are refereed by international scholars with relevant expertise.
Our publications are an important source of material for linguists and others interested in the Pacific and neighbouring areas, as well as for linguists with interests in language typology, sociolinguistics, language contact and the reconstruction of linguistic change and culture history. Pacific Linguistics is proud to act as a vehicle for the dissemination of knowledge about the languages of the Pacific and the Pacific Rim, many of which are little known, and to bring them to the attention of scholars around the world, as well as providing local communities with published language material, at a time when many minority languages are under threat.