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Oceanicist

Oceanicist noun: a linguist who specialises in studying Oceanic languages.

Noun

Oceanicist (plural Oceanicists)

  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 of Oceanicist

pluralOceanicists

Origin of Oceanicist

From Oceanic + -ist.

Questions about Oceanicist

What does Oceanicist mean?
Oceanicist means a linguist who specialises in studying Oceanic languages.
What part of speech is Oceanicist?
Oceanicist is a noun.
What is the plural of Oceanicist?
The plural of Oceanicist is Oceanicists.

Words near Oceanicist in the dictionary

  1. oceanic whitetips
  2. Oceanica
  3. oceanically
  4. Oceanican
  5. Oceanicans
  6. Oceanicist
  7. Oceanicists
  8. oceanicity
  9. Oceanid
  10. Oceanides
  11. Oceanids

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