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LINGUIST List 20.1589

Fri Apr 24 2009

Books: Historical Ling: Ross, Pawley, Osmond (Eds)

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        1.    Julie Manley, The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: Ross, Pawley, Osmond (Eds)
Message 1: The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: Ross, Pawley, Osmond (Eds)
Date: 23-Apr-2009
From: Julie Manley <jmanleycoombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: Ross, Pawley, Osmond (Eds)
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Title: The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The Culture and Environment of
Ancestral Oceanic Society 3
Subtitle: Plants
Series Title: PL 599
Published: 2008
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
                http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

Editor: Malcolm Ross
Editor: Andrew Pawley
Author: Meredith Osmond
Paperback: ISBN: 9780858835 Pages: 565 Price: AUS $ 125.00 Comment: excl. GST
Abstract:

This is the third in a series of six volumes on the lexicon of Proto
Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language
family. Each volume deals with a particular domain of culture and/or
environment and consists of a collection of essays each of which presents
and comments on lexical reconstructions of a particular semantic field
within that domain.

Volume 3 examines the terms that Proto Oceanic speakers used to name plants
and parts of plants. After the general introduction to the series, Chapter
2 places Proto Oceanic plant naming within its biogeographic and
ethnographic context, Chapter 3 examines its major plant categories from an
ethnobotanical standpoint, and Chapter 4 reconstructs terms for parts of
plants. Chapters 5-8 present reconstructed names of wild plants, organised
by vegetation habitat: the coastal strand, mangrove swamp, rain forest and
secondary forest. Chapters 9-13 investigate the naming of cultivated
plants: staple foods, green vegetables, nut and fruit trees, the coconut
and a variety of cultivated non-food plants.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Written In: English (eng )

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