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Linguistic and social typology: The Austronesian migrations and phoneme inventories

There is a challenging issue for linguistic typology which involves the relationships which might exist between societal type and aspects of linguistic structure...

Keywords: areal linguistics, Austronesian, community size, language contact, phoneme inventories, Polynesian, social structure

10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
Consonant inventories as an areal feature of the New Guinea-Pacific region: Testing Trudgill's hypotheses

Trudgill has proposed that the size of the phonological inventory for a language correlates with the extent of language contact, with isolated small languages having very small or large inventories, and provides evidence for his claim from the Pacific region...

Keywords: areal linguistics, Austronesian, borrowing, language contact, New Guinea, phoneme inventories, Polynesian

10/2004 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
Semantic and functional diversification of reciprocal and middle prefixes in New Caledonian and other Austronesian languages

This article analyses the functions and meanings of the reflexes of the Proto-Oceanic (POc) prefix *paRi- in New Caledonian languages and, based on comparisons with other Austronesian languages, seeks to account for their broad polyfunctionality and polysemy in New Caledonia...

Keywords: aspect, Austronesian, collective, cooperative, iterative, middle, New Caledonia, Oceanic, pluractionality, polysemy, reciprocal, reduplication, reflexive, semantic change, transitivity, voice

06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter