The lexicon of Proto Oceanic:
The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society.
(2) The physical environment
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Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley
and Meredith Osmond
This is the second in a series
of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor
of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family.
Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or
environment and consists of a collection of essays each of
which presents and comments on lexical reconstructions of
a particular semantic field within that domain.
Volume 2 examines how Proto Oceanic speakers described their
geophysical environment. An introductory chapter discusses
linguistic and archaeological evidence that locates the Proto
Oceanic language community in the Bismarck Archipelago in
the late 2nd millennium BC. The next three chapters investigate
terms used to denote inland, coastal, reef and open sea environments,
and meteorological phenomena. A further chapter examines the
lexicon for features of the heavens and navigational techniques
associated with the stars. How Proto Oceanic speakers talked
about their environment is also described in three further
chapters which treat property terms for describing inanimate
objects, locational and directional terms, and terms related
to the expression of time.
Published: 2003
PL 545, ISBN (Paperback): ISBN 0 85883
539 8
Pages: xviii + 387 pp
Prices: Australia A$88.00 (inc. GST), Overseas
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