Tent Jan, Geraghty Paul (Eds.). Borrowing: A Pacific Perspective

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — 342 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 548).In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in linguistic borrowing, especially with regard to its importance in the reconstruction of pre-history. However, the general literature on borrowing has been based on a somewhat restricted range of data, tending to concentrate on the languages of Europe or the Americas. The Pacific has not figured prominently in such discussions. Linguists and anthropologists have long considered the Pacific to be a kind of laboratory because the geographical discreteness of its cultures allows clearer inferences to be made than are usually possible in a continental situation. Borrowing in the Pacific is relatively easy to identify and stratify. Its study is, therefore, especially useful in the reconstruction of the linguistic, social and cultural history. The scope of this volume is not solely restricted to borrowing in Oceanic languages, but includes two papers on borrowing in Fiji Hindi and Fiji English. Authors have been encouraged to address general issues of borrowing from the perspective of data they have derived from their fieldwork, thus avoiding the risk of producing a series of largely similar contributions. The volume also includes a number of seminal and authoritative papers on Pacific borrowing that have been previously published.Bruce Biggs - Direct and indirect inheritance in Rotuman
Ross Clark - 'Necessary' and 'unnecessary' borrowing
Terry Crowley - Borrowing into Pacific languages: language enrichment or language threat?
Robert Early - Periphrasis as a verbal borrowing strategy in Epi languages
Paul Geraghty - Borrowed plants in Fiji and Polynesia: some linguistic evidence
Paul Geraghty and Jan Tent - From lowlands to islands: Dutch loans in Polynesia
Ray Harlow - Borrowing and its alternatives in Maori
Jim Hollyman - Origin-oriented names of borrowings in New Caledonia
Robert Langdon - The legacy of Futuna's Tsiaina in the languages of Polynesia
John Lynch - 'Don't take my word for it': two case studies of unexpected non-borrowing
George Milner - Initial nasal clusters in Eastern and Western Austronesian
Ulrike Mosel - Borrowing in Samoan
France Mugler - The spice of life: borrowing and Fiji's Indian languages
Albert J. Schutz - English loan words in Fijian
Wolfgang B. Sperlich - Borrowing in Niuean
Jan Tent - Lexical borrowing in Fiji English