Publisher:
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Published:
2003
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
10238655786
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Fine. No dust jacket as issued. 354 p. Includes: diagrams, maps, bibliography. Pacific Linguistics 539 Characteristic of many of the Oceanic languages of the Pacific is the presence of several valency-changing devices. This work is an historical study of three valency-increasing and two valency-decreasing morphemes, presenting descriptions of their reflexes in a number of modern Oceanic languages and a detailed reconstruction of their forms and functions in the ancestor language, Proto Oceanic. The reconstructions of valency-changing devices is presented within of an analysis of morphosyntactic classes of verbs, both in the modern languages and in Proto Oceanic.