''Oceanic Linguistics'' is a biannual peer-reviewed

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...

covering research on the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainlan ...

, including the

indigenous Australian languages The Indigenous languages of Australia number in the hundreds, the precise number being quite uncertain, although there is a range of estimates from a minimum of around 250 (using the technical definition of 'language' as non-mutually intellig ...

, the

Papuan languages The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non- Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogr ...

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...

, and the languages of the Austronesian (or

Malayo-Polynesian The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian peoples outside of Taiwan, in the island nations of Southeas ...

) family. Monographs on the same languages are published as'' Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications''.

History

The journal was established in 1962 by George W. Grace (

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, later

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). It has been published by the

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since 1966 (vol. 5). In 1992, the editorship passed to

Byron W. Bender Byron W. Bender (August 14, 1929 – January 4, 2020) was a professor of linguistics at the University of Hawaii, University of Hawaii specializing in Micronesian languages, primarily Marshallese language, Marshallese, and Oceanic languages m ...

(University of Hawaii) and in 2007 it passed to John Lynch ( University of the South Pacific). In 2019, he was succeeded by Daniel Kaufman, Yuko Otsuka, and Antoinette Schapper. The journal's first electronic edition appeared in 2000 on

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. Back volumes up to three years behind the current volumes of both the journal and the monograph series are available on JSTOR.

References

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