Journal Te Reo

Te Reo is the Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand. The words Te Reo are the Māori term for ‘the language’ or ‘language’. The Journal is published annually and has been running for 60 years. It is a peer-reviewed journal with strong representation in the fields of Austronesian linguistics and more recently, New Zealand English. Read more…

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Te Reo is delighted to announce a special issue in honour of Frantisek Lichtenberk as a recognition of his many important contributions to the field of linguistics.

This issue is edited by guest editors: Andreea S. Calude and Suzanne Kemmer.

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Journal Te Reo

Volume 62 Issue 1 - Special Issue in Honour of Frantisek Lichtenberk

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Frank Lichtenberk – a life in linguistics (Introduction to the Special Issue)

Frank’s Bibliography

Polysemy and Complementarity: Core Verbs and Their Uses in Numbami

The possessive classifiers in Raga, Vanuatu: an investigation of their use and function in natural speech

Existential and locative predication in some eastern Oceanic languages

Inclusory constructions in the Māori languages of Aotearoa and the Southern Cook Islands

Indexing and flagging, and head and dependent marking

Comparative concepts and practicing typology: on Haspelmath’s proposal for “flagging” and “(person) indexing”

A corpus linguistic analysis of the Indirect Middle Construction in Romanian

A Processing Advantage for Inalienable Possession: Evidence from English Phrase Plausibility Judgments

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Tamariki and fanau: child speakers of Māori and Samoan in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Effect of Stress on the Realization of Plosives in New Zealand English

The effect of language and spatial information on the perception of time in Mandarin and English speakers

Valency Adjusting Strategies in Raga, a language of Vanuatu

Editor’s note

Book review – “One man is an island”

Book review – “Ka ngaro te reo”

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