Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacifric or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages.
For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided.
| ISBN: | 9780824818982 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 1998 |
| Author: | John Lynch |
| Publisher: | University of Hawai'i Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 359 pages |
| Genres: |
Grammar, syntax and morphology Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics |
Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacifric or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience.
Pacific Languages features in the following genres: Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
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Pacific Languages was written by John Lynch and published by University of Hawai'i Press
Pacific Languages has 359 pages