Papuan Languages of New Guinea
Papuan Languages of New Guinea 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…
Specifikacia Papuan Languages of New Guinea
Papuan Languages of New Guinea
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. 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. The Papuan languages number over 700 (or 20 per cent of the world's total) in more than sixty language families.
In this respect alone, the present volume, systematically organised on mainly typology principles, is particularly timely and useful. However, in the search for language universals and generalisations in linguistic typology, it would be foolhardy to neglect the information that is available. 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.
Papuan Languages of New Guinea
Trees of New Guinea
Birds of New Guinea
New Guinea
Grammar of Papuan Malay
Languages of Scandinavia
Languages of Truth
Languages of Loss
Languages of Loss
Languages of the Unsayable
Languages of the World
Mystical Languages of Unsaying