The Languages And Linguistics Of The New Guinea Area
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The Languages And Linguistics Of The New Guinea Area
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Author : Bill Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2017-12-04
The Languages And Linguistics Of The New Guinea Area written by Bill Palmer and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the world - home to over 1300 languages, almost one fifth of all living languages, in more than 40 separate families, along with numerous isolates. Traditionally one of the least understood linguistic regions, ongoing research allows for the first time a comprehensive guide. Given the vastness of the region and limited previous overviews, this volume focuses on an account of the families and major languages of each area within the region, including brief grammatical descriptions of many of the languages. The volume also includes a typological overview of Papuan languages, and a chapter on Austronesian-Papuan contact. It will make accessible current knowledge on this complex region, and will be the standard reference on the region. It is aimed at typologists, endangered language specialists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and all those interested in linguistic diversity and understanding this least known linguistic region.
The Papuan Languages Of New Guinea
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Author : William A. Foley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1986-11-20
The Papuan Languages Of New Guinea written by William A. Foley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-11-20 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provide an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than sixty language families. Less than a quarter of the individual languages have yet been adequately documented, and in this sense William Foley's book might be considered premature. However, in the search for language universals and generalisations in linguistic typology, it would be foolhardy to neglect the information that is available. In this respect alone, the present volume, systematically organised on mainly typology principles, is particularly timely and useful. In addition, the processes of linguistic diffusion are present in New Guinea to an extent probably paralleled elsewhere on the globe. The Papuan Languages of New Guinea will be of interest not only to general and comparative linguists and to typologists, but also to sociolinguists and anthropologists for the information it provides on the social dynamics of language content.
New Guinea Area Languages And Language Study
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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A Linguistic Bibliography Of The New Guinea Area
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Author : Lois Carrington
language : en
Publisher: Australian National University
Release Date : 1996
A Linguistic Bibliography Of The New Guinea Area written by Lois Carrington and has been published by Australian National University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Austronesian languages categories.
New Guinea Area Languages And Language Study
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
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Papuan Languages Of Oceania
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Author : Stephen Adolphe Wurm
language : en
Publisher: Barrie Publishing
Release Date : 1982
Papuan Languages Of Oceania written by Stephen Adolphe Wurm and has been published by Barrie Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Oceania categories.
The Markham Languages Of Papua New Guinea
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Author : Susanne Holzknecht
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Markham Languages Of Papua New Guinea written by Susanne Holzknecht and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Fore Language Of Papua New Guinea
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Author : Graham Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
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New Guinea And Neighboring Areas
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Author : Stephen A. Wurm
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-11-18
New Guinea And Neighboring Areas written by Stephen A. Wurm and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Contributions to the Sociology of Language series features publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It addresses the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches - theoretical and empirical - supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of scholars interested in language in society from a broad range of disciplines - anthropology, education, history, linguistics, political science, and sociology. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Hua A Papuan Language Of The Eastern Highlands Of New Guinea
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Author : John Haiman
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1980-01-01
Hua A Papuan Language Of The Eastern Highlands Of New Guinea written by John Haiman and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
There is no country in the world where as many different languages are spoken as in New Guinea, approximately a fifth of the languages in the world. Most of these so-called Papuan languages seem to be unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere. The present work is the first truly comprehensive study of such a language, Hua. The chief typological peculiarity of Hua is the existence of a 'medial verb'construction used to conjoin clauses in compound and complex sentences. Hua also shows a fundamental morphological distinction between coordinate and subordinate medial clauses, the latter are not 'tense-iconic', the events they describe are not necessarily prior to the event described in later clauses. Moreover their truth is always presupposed. The distribution and behaviour of a post-nominal suffix - mo provides insights into the nature of topics, conditional clauses, and functional definitions of the parts of speech. In phonology, the central rules of assimilation are constrained by the universal hierarchy of sonority, which may, however, be derived from binary features. These are some of the areas in which the grammar of Hua is unusually perspicuous. The present work aims at a standard of completeness such that it would be a useful reference work for research in almost any theoretical topic.