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About Pacific Linguistics
Pacific Linguistics is a publisher
specialising in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, atlases,
bibliographies
and other materials concerned with languages of the Pacific,
Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast
Asia and minority languages of South and East Asia. We focus
on data-oriented papers on little known languages in this
region as well as on
teaching materials in the region’s major lingua
francas. We are also concerned to publish materials on endangered
languages, and this is a major reason for the establishment
of our Shorter
Grammars imprint.
Since its establishment in 1963
through an initial grant from the Hunter Douglas Fund,
Pacific Linguistics has published about five hundred books.
For a little more history, click
here. These pages also include information about our logo,
our staff, our Editorial
Board, our commercial
status and our status
with DEST (for Australian academics).
The authors and editors of our
publications are drawn from a wide range of institutions around
the world, and our publications are refereed by international
scholars with relevant expertise.
Our publications are an important
source of material for linguists and others interested in
the Pacific and neighbouring areas, as well as for linguists
with interests in language typology, sociolinguistics, language
contact and the reconstruction of linguistic change and culture
history. Pacific Linguistics is proud to act as a vehicle
for the dissemination of knowledge about the languages of
the Pacific and the Pacific Rim, many of which are little
known, and to bring them to the attention of scholars around
the world, as well as providing local communities with published
language material, at a time when many minority languages
are under threat.
Pacific Linguistics is currently moving towards electronic publication in association with E Press - http://epress.anu.edu.au/ - to provide POD (print-on-demand) copies. More information will be provided as Pacific Linguistics gradually moves towards this form of publication.
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