Towards a reanalysis of Oceanic possessives
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LinguisticsMorphology
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
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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).Refereed
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MacDonald, L. A. (1979). Towards a reanalysis of Oceanic possessives. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 5(Spring), 1-18.Department
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