Blust Robert (Ed.). Currents in Pacific linguistics: papers on Austronesian languages and ethnolinguistics in honour of George W. Grace

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1991. — 572 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 117).“Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian Languages and Ethnolinguistics in Honour of George W. Grace” is a comprehensive collection of scholarly papers. It delves into Austronesian languages and ethnolinguistics, paying tribute to the esteemed linguist George W. Grace. The book covers a wide range of topics related to Austronesian languages, including their structure, historical development, and cultural context.George W. Grace: an appreciation - Robert Blust
Publications of George W. Grace - Albert J. Schütz
On the category distributive - Byron W. Bender
Sound change and migration distance - Robert Blust
Proto Oceanic culture: the evidence from Melanesia - Ann Chowning
Search for subject in Samoan - Kenneth William Cook
Shifting attitudes in Hawai'i 1920s to 1990 - Samuel H. Elbert
Determiner forms in Hote - Elaine M. Good
Consonant dissimilation in Māori - Ray Harlow
Reanalysis of Proto Polynesian noun phrase marking - S.P. Harrison
Personalised and non-personalised possession: final consonants in Kumak and other languages of far northern New Caledonia - K.J. Hollyman
Some practical factors in the early development of linguistics as a science - Patricia A. Lee
Vowel deletion and vowel assimilation in Sediq - Paul Jen-Kuei Li
Reciprocals and depatientives in To'aba'ita - Frantisek Lichtenberk
A Century of linguistic change in Anejom - John Lynch
Pronouns, politeness and hierarchy in Malay - Richard McGinn
Sixteen nuclear Micronesian verbs - Jeff Marck
Tanimbar-Kei: an eastern Indonesian subgroup - Roger F. Mills
Fossilised affixes of Bikol - Malcolm W. Mintz
Samoan construction of reality - Ulrike Mosel
Relational morphemes and a transitivising suffix in Xaracuu (New Caledonia) - Claire Moyse-Faurie
Incorporation of genitive relators in the languages of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands - F. Ozanne-Rivierre
How to talk cricket: on linguistic competence in a subject matter - Andrew Pawley
Tongan speech levels: practice and talk about practice in the cultural construction of social hierarchy - Susan U. Philips
Final vowel lenition in Micronesian languages: an exploration of the dynamics of drift - Kenneth L. Rehg
Language of the noble savage: early European perceptions of Tahitian - Karl H. Rensch
Loss of final consonants in the north of New Caledonia - J. C. Rivierre
How conservative are sedentary languagaes?: evidence from western Melanesia - M.D. Ross
William Anderson's Hawaiian word list - Albert J. Schütz
Mass and count nouns in Chinese and English: a few further Whorfian considerations - Ron Scollon and Suzie Scollon
Grammar, perception and reality - Stanley Starosta
Two symmetrical verbal aspects in Oceania - Claude Tchekhoff
Wanem Bislama? - Darrell Tryon
Questions and answers in Tok Pisin - John W.M. Verhaar
Proto Austronesian phoneme *t and the grouping of the Austronesian languages - John U. Wolff
Language decay and revivalism: the Ayiwo language of the Reef Islands, Santa Cruz Archipeligo, Solomon Islands - S.A. Wurm