ABSTRACT

This new volume of the Language Family Series presents an overview of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian languages, spread across a region embracing eastern Indonesia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and Micronesia. It provides sufficient phonological and grammatical data to give typologists and comparativists a good idea of the nature of these languag

chapter 1|22 pages

The Oceanic languages

chapter 2|11 pages

Sociolinguistic background

chapter 3|20 pages

Typological overview

chapter 4|38 pages

Proto Oceanic

chapter 5|29 pages

Internal subgrouping