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Summary:The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than 60 language families. This introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea provides an accessible account of one of the richest and most diverse linguistic situations in the world.

Print Book, English, 1986

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1986

Physical Description:xiii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9780521243551, 9780521286213, 0521243556, 0521286212

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:13004531

Contents:

Machine derived contents note: List of maps

Preface

Abbreviations used in glosses

1. Introduction

2. Language and its social content

3. Phonology

4. Nominals

5. Verbs

6. Syntax

7. Problems of comparative linguistics in Papuan languages

8. Papuan languages and New Guinea prehistory

References

Language index

Subject index

Notes:

Includes indexes