From 1963 to 2011 Pacific Linguistics, located at the Australian National University, published over six hundred books concerned with the languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. The Mouton Pacific Linguistics series represents a continuation of this publishing venture under the same Editorial Board.

The Pacific Linguistics series presents linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, and other materials concerned with languages of this region.

The authors and editors of Pacific...

From 1963 to 2011 Pacific Linguistics, located at the Australian National University, published over six hundred books concerned with the languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. The Mouton Pacific Linguistics series represents a continuation of this publishing venture under the same Editorial Board.

The Pacific Linguistics series presents linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, and other materials concerned with languages of this region.

The authors and editors of Pacific...

From 1963 to 2011 Pacific Linguistics, located at the Australian National University, published over six hundred books concerned with the languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. The Mouton Pacific Linguistics series represents a continuation of this publishing venture under the same Editorial Board.

The Pacific Linguistics series presents linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, and other materials concerned with languages of this region.

The authors and editors of Pacific...

This book provides a description of Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula in Australia. The language is no longer spoken, but the analysis is based on a range of archival materials from the 1920s to the 1990s, as well as the authors' fieldwork experience with neighbouring languages. This book pays special attention to the language in its social context, historical-comparative analysis, and the methods used to analyse the archival material.

Based on firsthand data, this book explores three domains of spatial expression - location, motion and orientation - in Caac, an under-researched language spoken in New Caledonia. It offers a formal categorization of the linguistic resources relevant to the expression of space in a vectorial framework, and investigates the relations between deixis and Frames of Reference in Caac with a focus on the use of directionals in static contexts.

This book is a comprehensive grammatical description of the Vures language, spoken on the island of Vanua Lava, in the Banks group of islands, northern Vanuatu. Vures is a previously undescribed language, with very few minor published works referring to the language.

From 1963 to 2011 Pacific Linguistics, located at the Australian National University, published over six hundred books concerned with the languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. The Mouton Pacific Linguistics series represents a continuation of this publishing venture under the same Editorial Board.

The Pacific Linguistics series presents linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, and other materials concerned with languages of this region.

The authors and editors of Pacific...

Descriptive grammars analyse the systematic elements of language, and in general this aim for systematicity leads authors to focus on categorical rules of syntax, morphology and phonology. This stands in apparent contrast to variationist linguistic research, where it has been shown that speakers produce variable patterns on every level of language. However, a key finding of variationism is that the distribution of variables is not random, but systematic: quantitative analysis of variables' conditioning factors provides insight into the relationships between different parts of the language....