Oceanicist

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noun

A linguist who specialises in studying Oceanic languages.

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Meanings

nounOceanicist (plural Oceanicists)

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

Origin

From Oceanic + -ist.

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APA

Oceanicist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Oceanicist

MLA

“Oceanicist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Oceanicist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Oceanicist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Oceanicist.

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