Oceanicist en · NOUN
Etymology
From Oceanic + -ist.
Meanings
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A linguist who specialises in studying Oceanic languages.
Unergative verbs, called Actor subject verbs by Oceanicists, have an underived subject, that is one that is a subject at all levels of syntactic representation.
2003, Bethwyn Evans, A Study of Valency-Changing Devices in Proto Oceanic, page 32:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanicists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |