Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of Western Melanesia

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"Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of Western Melanesia" is a major linguistic study by Malcolm Ross that reconstructs Proto Oceanic and analyzes its relationship to the Austronesian languages spoken in Western Melanesia.

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instanceOf book
linguistic monograph
scholarly work
academicDiscipline linguistics
academicUse reference work for Oceanic linguists
source for Proto Oceanic reconstructions
analyzes morphology of Proto Oceanic
sound correspondences in Oceanic languages
syntax of Proto Oceanic
author Malcolm Ross NERFINISHED
contribution classification of Western Melanesian Oceanic languages
detailed reconstruction of Proto Oceanic phonology
reconstruction of Proto Oceanic lexicon
refinement of Oceanic subgrouping
field Austronesian linguistics NERFINISHED
Oceanic linguistics NERFINISHED
historical linguistics
focus reconstruction of Proto Oceanic
relationship between Proto Oceanic and Western Melanesian Austronesian languages
geographicFocus Western Melanesia NERFINISHED
influenced later reconstructions of Proto Oceanic
studies of Melanesian Austronesian languages
languageFamilyStudied Austronesian NERFINISHED
languageSubgroupStudied Oceanic languages NERFINISHED
mainSubject Austronesian languages of Western Melanesia NERFINISHED
Proto Oceanic NERFINISHED
methodology comparative method
topic historical relationships among Western Melanesian Austronesian languages
language change in Western Melanesia
reconstruction of Proto Oceanic grammar
subgrouping of Oceanic languages in Melanesia
usedIn comparative studies of Austronesian languages
research on Oceanic historical linguistics
writtenInLanguage English

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Malcolm Ross hasNotablePublication Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian languages of Western Melanesia