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Oceanicist en · NOUN

Etymology

From Oceanic + -ist.

Meanings

  1. 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

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Oceanicists Number=Plur lexicographic