Absorbed: Journals that are combined with another title. Terms Related to the Moving Wall Fixed walls: Journals with no new volumes being added to the archive. For example, if the current year is 2008 and a journal has a 5 year moving wall, articles from the year 2002 are available. Note: In calculating the moving wall, the current year is not counted. In rare instances, a publisher has elected to have a 'zero' moving wall, so their current issues are available in JSTOR shortly after publication. Moving walls are generally represented in years.
The 'moving wall' represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. The thousand-odd languages within the scope of the journal are the aboriginal languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family.Īrticles in Oceanic Linguistics cover issues of linguistic theory that pertain to languages of the area, report research on historical relations, or furnish new information about inadequately described languages. Description: Oceanic Linguistics is the only journal devoted exclusively to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia.
