Andrew Pawley

Papers in Honour of Andrew Pawley

A Journey Through Austronesian and Papuan Linguistic and Cultural Space

A Dictionary of Kalam with Ethnographic Notes

A Grammar of a New Guinea Highlands Language

The Structure of Karam

"An inter-disciplinary exploration of the history of humans in New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands, which make up the biogeographic and cultural region that is coming to be known as Near Oceania, with particular reference to the people who speak Papuan (non-Austronesian) languages"--Back cover.

Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Histories of Papuan-speaking Peoples

Papuan Pasts

Malcolm Ross

Darrell T. Tryon

Studies in Melanesian Linguistics in Honour of Tom Dutton

The Boy from Bundaberg

Jim Hollyman

In Honour of Bruce Biggs

Studies in Pacific Languages & Cultures

Ralph Bulmer

Essays in Pacific Anthropology and Ethnobiology in Honour of Ralph Bulmer

Man and a Half

Continuity and Change

Austronesian Terminologies

Meredith Osmond

This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or environment and consists of a collection of essays each of which presents and comments on lexical reconstructions of a particular semantic field within that domain. Volume 2 examines how Proto Oceanic speakers described their geophysical environment. An introductory chapter discusses linguistic and archaeological evidence that locates the Proto Oceanic language community in the Bismarck Archipelago in the late 2nd millennium BC. The next three chapters investigate terms used to denote inland, coastal, reef and open sea environments, and meteorological phenomena. A further chapter examines the lexicon for features of the heavens and navigational techniques associated with the stars. How Proto Oceanic speakers talked about their environment is also described in three further chapters which treat property terms for describing inanimate objects, locational and directional terms, and terms related to the expression of time.

The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society. The physical environment. Volume 2

The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic

The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The physical environment

Andrew Pawley

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