Oceanicist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Oceanic +‎ -ist.

Noun[edit]

Oceanicist (plural Oceanicists)

  1. A linguist who specialises in studying Oceanic languages.
    • 2003, Bethwyn Evans, A Study of Valency-Changing Devices in Proto Oceanic, page 32:
      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.