Oceanicist

noun

Oceanicist

noun

Etymology From Oceanic + -ist.

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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:

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