Proto Oceanic Language, culture and environment: Foundations of the Austronesian settlement of the Pacific

该项目旨在重建原始海洋的词汇。原始大洋洲语是美拉尼西亚、波利尼西亚和密克罗尼西亚的大多数南岛语的祖先。通过对术语语义的研究，我们可以更好地了解原始海洋语使用者的文化、社会和宇宙观，以及他们对自然环境的认识和适应。研究结果将在五卷本系列丛书的第3卷至第5卷中介绍。 第一卷于1998年出版;第二卷已接近完成。该项目将支持第3卷（植物群和动物群）、第4卷（人与社会）和第5卷（索引等）的基础研究。

The project aims to reconstruct the lexicon of Proto Oceanic. Proto Oceanic was ancestral to most Austronesian languages of Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. By paying attention to the semantics of terminologies, we expect to learn much about the culture, society and cosmology of Proto Oceanic speakers and their conception of and adaptation to the natural environment. The results will be presented in Volumes 3-5 of a five-volume series. Volume 1 was published in 1998; volume 2 is almost complete. This project will support fundamental research for volumes 3 (flora and fauna), 4 (people and society) and 5 (indices, etc).