The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area : : A Comprehensive Guide / / ed. by Bill Palmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Arka, Wayan,; Carroll, Matthew,; Choi, Yun Jung,; Dunn, Michael,; Döhler, Christian,; Evans, Bethwyn,; Evans, Nicholas,; Foley, William A.,; Gast, Volker,; Hammarström, Harald,; Holton, Gary,; Kashima, Eri,; Klamer, Marian,; Mittag, Emil,; Olsson, Bruno,; Palmer, Bill,; Pawley, Andrew,; Quinn, Kyla,; Reesink, Ger,; Schokkin, Dineke,; Siegel, Jeff,; Stebbins, Tonya,; Tama, Philip,; Terrill, Angela,; Tongeren, Charlotte van,
• HerausgeberIn: Palmer, Bill,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: The World of Linguistics [WOL] ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 1020 p.)

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 ho...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of contents
• 1. Language families of the New Guinea Area
• 2. The Trans New Guinea family
• 3. The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs
• 4. The languages of Northwest New Guinea
• 5. The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird’s Head
• 6. The languages of Southern New Guinea
• 7. The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia
• 8. The morphosyntactic typology of Papuan languages
• 9. Contact phenomena in Austronesian and Papuan languages
• General Index
• Index of Languages and Language Groupings