Oceanic Linguistics

Oceanic Linguistics
Oceanic Linguistics  
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Abbreviated title (ISO) 'OL'
Discipline linguistics
Language English
Publication details
Publisher University of Hawaii Press (USA)
Publication history 1962 to present
Frequency semiannual
Indexing
ISSN 0029-8115 (print)
1527-9421 (web)
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Oceanic Linguistics is an international academic journal devoted to the study of the thousand-odd indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia, including the aboriginal languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family. Articles cover issues of linguistic theory that pertain to languages of the area, report research on historical relations, or furnish new information about inadequately described languages. Monographs on the same languages are published as Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications (OLSP).

The journal was founded by George W. Grace at Southern Illinois University in 1962 but accompanied its editor to the University of Hawaiʻi in 1964 (vol. 3). It has been published by the University of Hawaii Press since 1966 (vol. 5). In 1992, the editorship passed to Byron W. Bender at the University of Hawaiʻi, and in 2007 it passed to John Lynch at the University of the South Pacific Emalus Campus in Vanuatu.

Oceanic Linguistics appears semiannually in June and December. Its first electronic edition appeared in 2000 on Project MUSE. Back volumes up to three years behind the current volumes of both the journal and the OLSP series are available in the JSTOR electronic archive.

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