Some Proto-Eastern Oceanic Reconstructions with Reflexes in Southeast Solomon Islands Languages
1969; University of Hawaii Press; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3622901
ISSN1527-9421
Autores Tópico(s)Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
Resumolanguages of the Southeast Solomon Islands have their closest relationships with the languages of Fiji, Polynesia, the New Hebrides-Banks Islands and Rotuma was suggested by R. H. Codrington as long ago as 1885. It is only recently, however, that this idea has been made fully explicit as a subgrouping hypothesis. Biggs (1965) applied the name Eastern Oceanic (EO) to a putative subgroup of Austronesian to which he assigned (at least) the languages of Polynesia, Fiji and Rotuma; Nggela, Arosi, Kwara'ae, Sa'a and Ulawa of the Southeast Solomons; and Mota and Efate of the New HebridesBanks Islands. He reconstructed some three hundred items attributed to Proto-Eastern
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