Malcolm Ross

Andrew Pawley

Meredith Osmond

The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society

The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic

John Natu Paol

A Waskia Grammar Sketch and Vocabulary

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A climber in New Zealand

A Woman Possessed

Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia

Darrell T. Tryon

Studies in Melanesian Linguistics in Honour of Tom Dutton

The Boy from Bundaberg

Thomas Edward Dutton

Papers in Memory of Donald C. Laycock

The Language Game

Clifford Frondel

H. Catherine W. Skinner

Describes the chemical, physical, and mineralogical aspects of fibrous inorganic materials.

Mineralogy, Crystal Chemistry, and Health Effects

Asbestos and Other Fibrous Materials

John Lynch

Terry Crowley

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 languages, and of how much typological variety there is in this single subgroup. The references will allow those interested in particular topics, geographical areas or specific languages to delve further. Divided into two major parts, the first five chapters of the book place the Oceanic languages in their geographic, demographic and social context. Both the place of the Oceanic subgroup within the wider Austronesian family, and the internal subgrouping of Oceanic itself are dealt with. A typological overview of Oceanic languages is provided, as well as an outline of the reconstructed phonology and morphosyntax of Proto Oceanic. The second part of the book consists of grammar sketches of 43 Oceanic languages that are not at all well known in the linguistic literature. For many of these languages, the sketch in this volume is the first grammatical treatment to appear in print.

The Oceanic Languages

Continuity and Change

Austronesian Terminologies

Comedy of errors with a historical Cornish setting. By the author of À woman alone'.

Woman Possessed

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 Aesthetic Imperative: Relevance and Responsibility in Arts Education is a collection of papers that covers various concerns in assessment in the context of arts education.

Relevance and Responsibility in Arts Education

The Aesthetic Imperative

The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The physical environment

The Aesthetic Impulse discusses art as a commitment to the development of intelligent feeling. This book discusses the central value of the arts in education as aesthetic, as the qualification of sensibility. This text describes the academics and the instrumentalists as challengers for what arts education is, and allow integration into mainstream education. The arts are different and such difference is their strength. This book also defines sensibility, aesthetics, and the exploration of the vernacular principle or popular art. This text explains what is whole and holy, what a good cultural education is, and labels the educational system under the present conditions as the enemy. The book proposes an Aesthetic Education Department or faculty assigned for coordinating an aesthetic curriculum. This text assesses aesthetic development in children in terms of pragmatic attention, disinterested attention, and tacit attention. This book also explains the development of art, drama, and music into the teen-age years, and also points out that aesthetic education involves development of sensual knowledge. This book is suitable for arts teachers, child educators, school counselors, and school administrators, as well as students in the arts.

The Aesthetic Impulse

Malcolm Ross

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