A study of valency-changing
devices in Proto Oceanic
Evans, Bethwyn
PL 539
Characteristic of many of the
Oceanic languages of the Pacific is the presence of several
valency-changing devices. This work is an historical study
of three valency-increasing and two valency-decreasing morphemes,
presenting descriptions of their reflexes in a number of modern
Oceanic languages and a detailed reconstruction of their forms
and functions in the ancestor language, Proto Oceanic. The
reconstructions of valency-changing devices is presented within
of an analysis of morphosyntactic classes of verbs, both in
the modern languages and in Proto Oceanic. Pacific Linguistics
in association with Centre for Research on Language Change
2003ISBN 0 85883 487
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xix + 352 pp
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