Oceanicist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Oceanic + -ist.
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