The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic

The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic
Title The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic PDF eBook
Author Malcolm D. Ross
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The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic

The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic
Title The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic PDF eBook
Author Malcolm Ross
Publisher ANU E Press
Pages 417
Release 2007-03-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1921313196

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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 Lexicon of Proto Oceanic

The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic
Title The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic PDF eBook
Author Malcolm Ross (linguiste)
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Pages 576
Release 2011
Genre Ethnology
ISBN 9780858835894

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The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic

The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic
Title The Lexicon of Proto-Oceanic PDF eBook
Author Malcolm Ross
Publisher Anu Press
Pages 430
Release 2007
Genre History
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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 Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society

The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society
Title The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The Culture and Environment of Ancestral Oceanic Society PDF eBook
Author Malcolm Ross
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Pages 0
Release 2023
Genre Electronic books
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The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The physical environment

The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The physical environment
Title The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The physical environment PDF eBook
Author Malcolm Ross
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Pages 410
Release 1998
Genre Agriculture
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Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia

Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia
Title Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia PDF eBook
Author Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 398
Release 2001-03-15
Genre History
ISBN 9780521788793

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The power of an anthropological approach to long-term history lies in its unique ability to combine diverse evidence, from archaeological artifacts to ethnographic texts and comparative word lists. In this innovative book, Kirch and Green explicitly develop the theoretical underpinnings, as well as the particular methods, for such a historical anthropology. Drawing upon and integrating the approaches of archaeology, comparative ethnography, and historical linguistics, they advance a phylogenetic model for cultural diversification, and apply a triangulation method for historical reconstruction. They illustrate their approach through meticulous application to the history of the Polynesian cultures, and for the first time reconstruct in extensive detail the Ancestral Polynesian culture that flourished in the Polynesian homeland - Hawaiki - some 2,500 years ago. Of great significance for Oceanic studies, Kirch and Green's book will be essential reading for any anthropologist, prehistorian, linguist, or cultural historian concerned with the theory and method of long-term history.