[Histling-l] Volume 6 of The lexicon of Proto Oceanic

[TRUDGILL Peter]

Very many congratulations to all!
Peter
Peter Trudgill  FBA
Prof. Emeritus of Eng. Linguistics, Fribourg Univ, CH;
Hon. Prof. of Sociolinguistics, UEA, Norwich, UK.
New book: The long journey of English: a geographical history of the language. CUP (June, 2023)



On 19 Sep 2023, at 08:42, Malcolm Ross <malcolmross42 at gmail.com> wrote:

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With the appearance of volume 6 of  *The lexicon of Proto Oceanic*  the  Oceanic Lexicon Project closes its doors (almost—see below).

We published the first volume of *The lexicon of Proto Oceanic* in 1998. The sixth and last appeared yesterday. All six volumes (edited by Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond) are freely available on line at  http://hdl.handle.net/1885/106908<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://hdl.handle.net/1885/106908__;!!Dc8iu7o!2gC21R9KnOgN49yEJQZJI0c87o63gl7_5qACqlvEfRcc42txer49B0fyRjPxLbdtfBsJLa4VaQNmOT17LALofqZ5duKn$>. They are:

Vol. 1: Material culture
Vol. 2: The physical environment
Vol. 3: Plants
Vol. 4: Animals
Vol. 5: People: Body and mind
Vol. 6: People: Society

The blurb on the Project website (https://sites.google.com/view/theoceaniclexiconproject/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/theoceaniclexiconproject/__;!!Dc8iu7o!2gC21R9KnOgN49yEJQZJI0c87o63gl7_5qACqlvEfRcc42txer49B0fyRjPxLbdtfBsJLa4VaQNmOT17LALofmkNHGzx$>) reads:

The lexicon of Proto Oceanic is a six-volume series reconstructing the lexicon of Proto Oceanic<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/theoceaniclexiconproject/proto-oceanic__;!!Dc8iu7o!2gC21R9KnOgN49yEJQZJI0c87o63gl7_5qACqlvEfRcc42txer49B0fyRjPxLbdtfBsJLa4VaQNmOT17LALofkHIByI9$>, the language ancestral to most of the Austronesian languages of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. By paying particular attention to the semantics of terminologies, the members of the Oceanic Lexicon Project have learned much about the material culture, social organisation, and cosmology of Proto Oceanic  speakers and about the ways in which they categorised and adapted to the environment. The completed series forms a comprehensive reference for anyone working in Oceanic linguistics or archaeology.

The website also contains some background to the Project and descriptions of the volumes’ contents.

Our doors are not quite closed, as an online version of the lexical material in the six volumes is planned, to appear sometime in the not too distant future, we hope.

—Malcolm Ross






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