The Linguistic History
of Southern Vanuatu
Lynch, John
PL 509
The languages of Erromango,
Tanna and Aneityum in Southern Vanutatu 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
xi + 322 pp.
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