Essential Guide to RF and Wireless, The.User’s Guide to Preventing & Reversing Diabetes Naturally.Designer’s Guide to Furniture Styles (Fashion Series).Automated Security Analysis of Android and iOS Applications with Mobile Security Framework.Laboratory Animal Medicine (American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine).Java Cryptography Extensions: Practical Guide for Programmers (The Practical Guides).The Definitive Guide to ARM® Cortex®-M3 and Cortex®-M4 Processors.The morphosyntactic typology of Papuan languagesĩ. Tonya Stebbins, Bethwyn Evans and Angela TerrillĨ. Nicholas Evans, Wayan Arka, Matthew Carroll, Yun Jung Choi, Christian Döhler, Volker Gast, Eri Kashima, Emil Mittag, Bruno Olsson, Kyla Quinn, Dineke Schokkin, Philip Tama, Charlotte van Tongeren and Jeff Siegelħ. The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird’s Head The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environsĥ. Language families of the New Guinea Areaģ. 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.ġ. It will make accessible current knowledge on this complex region, and will be the standard reference on the region. The volume also includes a typological overview of Papuan languages, and a chapter on Austronesian-Papuan contact. 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. Traditionally one of the least understood linguistic regions, ongoing research allows for the first time a comprehensive guide. 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. 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.

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