Malcolm Ross

Chapters

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Proto Oceanic Phonology and Morphology
• 1.4 Household Artefacts
• 1.9 Acts of Impact, Force and Change of State
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.3 The Landscape
• 2.4 The Seascape
• 2.5 Meteorological phenomena
• 2.7 Properties of inanimate objects
• 2.8 Talking about space: terms of location and direction
• 2.9 Time
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Introducing Proto Oceanic plant names
• 3.5 Wild plants of the coastal strand
• 3.6 Wild plants of the mangrove: swamp
• 3.7 Wild plants of primary lowland tropical rain forest
• 3.8 Wild plants of secondary lowland rain forest and grassland
• 3.9 Staple foods: root crops, bananas, breadfruit and sago
• 3.10 Green vegetables and figs
• 3.11 Nut and fruit trees
• 3.12 The coconut palm
• 3.13 Other cultivated plants
• 3.14 Concluding notes
• 4.1 Introduction
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 People: gender, age cohorts and marital status
• 5.3 The human body
• 5.4 Bodily conditions and activities
• 5.6 Posture and movement
• 5.7 Physical acts
• 5.10 Cognition
• 5.11 Describing people: stature, temperament, emotion and evaluation
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Kinship
• 6.11 Seasonal cycles and lunations
• 6.12 Talking about speaking
• 6.13 Trade, exchange, distribution and transfer of possession
• 6.14 Counting: Numerals and numeral classifiers
• 6.15 Digit tallying
• 6.16 Linear measurement