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The Language of Lapita: Vanuatu and an early Papuan Presence in the Pacific

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dc.contributor.authorDonohue, Mark
dc.contributor.authorDenham, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-07T22:45:09Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.updated2015-12-07T11:32:47Z
dc.description.abstractThe languages of Vanuatu are uniformly Austronesian, but have long been described as "aberrant." Blust (2005) points out a number of morphosyntactic features of the Vanuatu languages that might provide evidence for a Papuan element in their history. We add to that argument, presenting phonological evidence that links the languages of Vanuatu and New Caledonia with the non-Austronesian languages of New Guinea. Accepting that the earliest archaeological sites in Vanuatu are Lapita sites, we suggest that this implicates non-Austronesian speaking Melanesians in the earliest occupancy of the islands, calling into question assumptions that the Lapita expansion in the Pacific can be unproblematically associated with the expansion of Austronesian languages of the Oceanic subgroup.
dc.identifier.issn0029-8115
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/25497
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
dc.sourceOceanic Linguistics
dc.titleThe Language of Lapita: Vanuatu and an early Papuan Presence in the Pacific
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage376
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage365
local.contributor.affiliationDonohue, Mark, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationDenham, Tim, Monash University
local.contributor.authoruidDonohue, Mark, u3429192
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160104 - Social and Cultural Anthropology
local.identifier.absfor200406 - Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
local.identifier.absfor200320 - Pacific Languages
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9313127xPUB38
local.identifier.ariespublicationf5625xPUB4462
local.identifier.citationvolume47
local.identifier.doi10.1353/ol.0.0021
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-67650039339
local.type.statusPublished Version

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