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Pacific Languages

An Introduction

John Lynch author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Hawai'i Press

Published:1st Mar '98

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Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacifric or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided.

ISBN: 9780824818982

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 530g

432 pages