Oceanicist

A linguist who specialises in studying Oceanic languages.

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. - 2003, Bethwyn Evans, A Study of Valency-Changing Devices...

Origin

From Oceanic + -ist.

Forms

Oceanicists