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 |22 pages

The Oceanic languages

chapter |11 pages

Sociolinguistic background

chapter |20 pages

Typological overview

chapter |38 pages

Proto Oceanic

chapter |29 pages

Internal subgrouping