LINGUIST List 12.1069: Oceanic Austronesian Lang of Southern Vanuatu

Message 1: Oceanic Austronesian Languages of Southern Vanuatu

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PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of the three works described below, all concerned with Oceanic Austronesian languages of southern Vanuatu. Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently equivalent to about US$ 0,50). Orders may be placed by mail, e-mail or telephone with: The Publications Administrator Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Tel: +61 (0)2 6249 2742 Fax: +61 (0)2 6249 4896 mailto://jmanley

coombs.anu.edu.au Credit card orders are accepted. For our catalogue and other materials, see: http://pacling.anu.edu.au (under construction) _______________________________________________________________ The Linguistic History of Southern Vanuatu Lynch, John PL 509 The languages of Erromango, Tanna and Aneityum in Southern Vanuatu form a closed subgroup of Oceanic, and have often been regarded as 'aberrant', especially in terms of their phonological history. In this book Lynch shows that, under a cloak of aberrancy, they are in many ways quite conservative Oceanic languages. Three chapters are devoted to the phonological history of these languages, and there is also a detailed discussion of historical developments in their morphology and syntax. Appendices include lists of lexical reconstructions and of apparent lexical innovations. 2001 ISBN: 0 85883 500 2 334 pp Price: AUS $49.50 International $45.00 Anejom~ Dictionary Disonari blong Anejom~ Nitasviitai a nijitas antas Anejom~ Lynch, John and Philip Tepahae PL 510 CiP: 499.5 xi+ 322 pp Anejom~ is the language of Aneityum, the southernmost island in Vanutatu. This dictionary, compiled by a professional Oceanic linguist and a native speaker of the language, contains almost 5,000 Anejom~ lexical items, with definitions in both English and Bislama (the national language of Vanuatu). Both English-Anejom~ and Bislama-Anejom~ finderlists are provided to make the dictionary accessible both to linguists and to ni-Vanutatu who may not speak or read English. The dictionary uses a newly devised orthography, which more accurately reflects the phonology of the lanugage than the one in current use. It is hoped that the dictionay will prove valuable to linguistis, to native speakers, and to children learning to read and write in the language. It complements _A grammar of Anejom~_, also by John Lynch and published by Pacific Linguistics. 2001 ISBN: 0 85883 508 8 448 pp. Price: AUS $52.80 International $48.00 An Erromangan (Sye) dictionary Crowley, Terry PL 508 This volume represents the most complete compilation to date of vocabulary in the Erromangan (or Sye) language of southern Vanuatu, along with an English-Erromangan finderlist. The introduction provides relevant background to enable the reader to make maximum use of information contained within dictionary entries, as well as discussing relevant grammatical and sociolinguistic information. The dictionary also includes separate discussions of personal names and names of places in the Erromangan language. This volume is intended as a supplement to _An Erromangan (Sye) grammar_ (University of Hawai'i Press) by the same author, as well as _Ura: a disappearing language of Southern Vanuatu_ (Pacific Linguistics), which is a description of the most closely related language. 2000 ISBN 0 85883 492 8 xxxi + 250 pp. Price: AUS $59.40 International $54.00

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