LFG98 CONFERENCE The University of Queensland, Brisbane Workshop on Voice and Grammatical Functions in Austronesian Languages Wed 1 July, afternoon, Emmanuel College Convenors: Simon Musgrave Prof. Peter K. Austin A number of Western Austronesian languages have more than one construction for clauses with two-place verbs. Word-order and/or case-marking varies, as does the form of the verb, but ...

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101 words that ancient Austronesian and/or Malayo/Polynesian seafarers may have used in Merina, Malay, Maanyan, Tagalog, Ilokano, Cebuano, Bunun, Chamoru, Tongan, Samoan, Maori, and Hawaiian.

Dhumbadji! vol. 1 no. 2, May 1993; pp. 15-27. An Introduction to Oceanic linguistic prehistory John Bowden, University of Melbourne Introduction The limits of the Oceanic family and its outside relationships The evidence for an Oceanic subgroup The major groupings within Oceanic The Eastern Region The Western Region Smaller groups not yet discussed Some future speculations An afterword on other ...

Endangered Languages of the Pacific Region by Osamu Sakiyama 1. Linguistic Background The languages that are currently spoken in the Pacific region can be divided broadly into three groups: the Australian and New Guinean languages formed by people who participated in the region s earliest migrations over a period of 20, 000-30, 000 years starting several tens of thousands of years ago, and the ...