Towards a reanalysis of Oceanic possessives

Date
1979-05
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University of Calgary
Abstract
The Oceanic languages, which constitute a major subgroup of the Austronesian language family, consist of over 400 languages spoken in Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. Although the exact subgrouping of Oceanic is uncertain, Pawley (1972) provides support for an Eastern Oceanic subgroup, which consists of languages from the Southeast Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and Banks Islands, Polynesia, and Fiji, as well as Rotuman and Gilbertese (Pawley 1972:7).
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Linguistics, Morphology, Proto-Eastern-Oceanic language, Proto-Oceanic language, Austronesian languages, Grammar, Comparative and general--Possessives, Oceanic languages, Roviana language, Fijian language, Tolai language, Mota language, Nguna language, Rarotongan language, Mele-Fila language
Citation
MacDonald, L. A. (1979). Towards a reanalysis of Oceanic possessives. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 5(Spring), 1-18.