The question of whether irrealis is a meaningful concept in crosslinguistic comparison has
been the subject of long-standing controversy. In this article, we argue that the semantic …

The loss of inflectional categories is often thought of as a type of simplification. In this paper
we present a survey of phenomena involving the reduction of adjective agreement in …

A grammar of the Ahamb language (Vanuatu) offers a description of the endangered and
previously undocumented Ahamb language spoken by around 950 people. This …

In this paper, we discuss the properties of negation in the Oceanic language Äiwoo. Like
many Melanesian languages, Äiwoo has a bipartite negation construction; more unusually …

In this thesis I study the meaning of tense, mood, and aspect (TMA) expressions in Nafsan
(South Efate), an Oceanic language of Vanuatu, from a typological perspective. I focus on …

Considerable research has concerned the influence of Papua New Guinea's Oceanic
languages on the development of the pidgin/creole Tok Pisin, but little research has …

The Pacific is a region of extreme linguistic and sociolinguistic diversity, with a long and
complex history of colonisation. We draw on research from sociolinguistics and allied fields …

This thesis is a first grammatical description of Nalögo [nlz], a virtually undescribed Oceanic
language spoken on Santa Cruz Island in Temotu Province (also known as Santa Cruz …

Cette thèse est la première description de la langue nalögo, parlée sur l'île Santa Cruz
(Province Temotu, aux îles Salomon). C'est une langue océanienne du groupe Reefs-Santa …

This paper describes four patterns of variation in the subject-indexing paradigm of Vatlongos
(Oceanic, Vanuatu). It explores their quantitative distribution in a corpus of monologic texts …