MacDonald, Lorna A2016-06-132016-06-131979-05MacDonald, L. A. (1979). Towards a reanalysis of Oceanic possessives. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 5(Spring), 1-18.2371-2643http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51278The 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).enLinguisticsMorphologyProto-Eastern-Oceanic languageProto-Oceanic languageAustronesian languagesGrammar, Comparative and general--PossessivesOceanic languagesRoviana languageFijian languageTolai languageMota languageNguna languageRarotongan languageMele-Fila languagejournal article10.11575/PRISM/29012