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dc.contributor.authorRoss, Malcolm
dc.contributor.authorPawley, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorOsmond, Meredith
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-12 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T14:54:03Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T14:54:03Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier459357
dc.identifierOCN: 874265913en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33697
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.otheroceania
dc.subject.otherethnology
dc.subject.othercustoms
dc.subject.othersocial life
dc.subject.otherproto oceanic language
dc.subject.otherProto-Oceanic language
dc.subject.otherReef
dc.subject.otherSES S.A.
dc.subject.otherTide
dc.titleThe Lexicon of Proto Oceanic
dc.title.alternativeThe culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society: 2 The physical environment
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.26530/OAPEN_459357
oapen.relation.isPublishedByddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71
oapen.pages399
oapen.place.publicationCanberra
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Oceanic languages - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_languages; Proto-Oceanic language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Oceanic_language; Reef - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef; SES S.A. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SES_S.A.; Tide - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide


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