Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1987. — 219 p. The Halia language is spoken or understood by some 16,000 people who reside on the north and east coasts of Buka Island on north Bougainville. This grammar has been written with a wide reading audience in mind. The authors hope it will be useful to both linguists and laymen, and to anyone who is interested in the study of...
Martinus Nijhoff, 1961. — 166 p. Comparative study of the languages spoken on and around the island of Yapen in Papua Province, Indonesia. It includes brief descriptions of each language, extensive word lists, verb paradigms and a language map.
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1979 — xi + 163 p. ISBN: 0858831872 Tigak is an Austronesian language in the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea. It is spoken by just over 4000 people living in the northern part of the mainland of New Ireland (extending about 30 miles south of Kavieng). There are four main...
SIL-PNG Academic Publications, 2007. — iv + 221 p. Mussau-Emira is spoken on the St Matthias group of islands, about 150 km northwest of Kavieng, in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. The classification of Mussau-Emira is Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern, Oceanic, St Matthias. The only other language in the St Matthias group is Tench (or Tenis),...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1995. — xiv + 451 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 101). — ISBN: 085883426X The aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive and rigorous synchronic description of grammatical structures and their meanings in Mangap-Mbula, an Austronesian language spoken by some 2,500 people in the Morobe...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1971. — iv + 94 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 20). The Arosi language occupies the western section of the island of San Cristobal, in the eastern part of the Solomon Islands. The language is Melanesian, and as such is a member of the Austronesian languages which stretch from South-east Asia across the Pacific as far...
Robert Brown & Associates. — 15 p. Pronunciation. Greetings. Some Useful Single Words. Please and Thank You. Asking Questions. Who are "We"? "Ours" or "Ours"? Numbers. One or Many. Gimme! Word Order. Sentence Shape. English - Motu Vocabulary. Motu - English Vocabulary. Map.
Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1987. — 104 p. The Sio language is spoken by approximately 3,500 people who live in five main villages along the north coast of the Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
University of California – Berkeley, 2015. — 321 p. In this dissertation a methodology for identifying and analyzing serial verb constructions (SVCs) is developed, and its application is exemplified through an analysis of SVCs in Koro, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea. SVCs involve two main verbs that form a single predicate and share at least one of their arguments. In...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1989. — 189 p. Patpatar is spoken by approximately 6,500 people living in Namatanai subprovince of the New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea. An Austronesian language, Patpatar is a member of the Patpatar-Tolai Subgroup of the Patpatar family of languages, which includes all the languages on the southern half of New Ireland as well as Tolai and...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1996. — 90 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 113). Roviana is an Austronesian language, a member of the New Georgia group of Oceanic languages spoken on the island of New Georgia, Solomon Islands, and in surrounding areas within the Solomon Islands (Ross 1988:216-217). According to the 1976...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003 — xv + 332 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 535). — ISBN: 0858835029 This description of Hoava, an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken on parts of New Georgia in the western Solomon Islands, is the first published reference grammar of a language from this area. The islands of the New Georgia group are...
Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2013. — vii + 263 p. This is a grammatical description of the Lemakot dialect of Kara, an Oceanic language in the Lavongai-Nalik subgroup. It is spoken in the northwest part of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea, to the southeast of Tigak and to the northwest of Nalik.
The Australian National University, 2007. — xiv + 241 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 585). The Bukawa language is an Austronesian language which is spoken by coastal inhabitants of the Huon Peninsula in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. The Bukawa villages are all situated on the coastal plain of the Huon Peninsula. This book represents an analysis of the grammar of the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1986. — viii + 165 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 96). Mono-Alu is an Oceanic language of the Solomon Islands belonging to the Mono–Uruavan Family. It has approximately 3,000 speakers.
Asia-Pacific Linguistics, 2015. — xiii + 230 p. — ISBN: 9781922185211. This book examines the different linguistic means used to describe or refer to motion and location in space in Tungag, an Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea. The description, based on a spoken and written corpus of about 100,000 words, includes a grammatical sketch of Tungag, in addition to a...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1990. — 72 p. This paper is a tentative description of Tungak grammar. Tungak is an Austronesian language in the Northern New Ireland Sub-group of the Patpatar-Tolai family. The approximately 12,000 speakers live on or near New Hanover Island in north-west New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
Latrobe University, 2011. — 689 p. Siar, also known as Lak, Lamassa, or Likkilikki, is an Austronesian language spoken in New Ireland Province in the southern island point of Papua New Guinea. Lak is in the Patpatar-Tolai sub-group, which then falls under the New Ireland-Tolai group in the Western Oceanic language, a sub-group within the Austronesian family.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1994. — x + 285 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 103). — ISBN: 0858834103. The Loniu language is spoken in Loniu and Lolak villages on the southern coast of the Los Negros section of Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. The present work is based on language data gathered from Loniu village between...
Ukarumpa: SIL, 1967. — 16 p. Mangga, or Mangga Buang, is an Oceanic language in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Alternate Names - Kaidemui, Manga Buang. Population - 1,500 (2011 SIL), decreasing. Ethnic population: 3,000.
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1989. — vii + 228 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 115). — ISBN: 0858833948. This study takes as its focus the Austronesian languages of the Ramu Valley, Markham Valley and associated valley systems in the lowlands of the Madang and Morobe Provinces, Papua New Guinea.
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2003. — 125 p. This paper is a preliminary description of the grammar of the Mandara language in New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea. Mandara is spoken by the residents on the group of islands called the Tabar Islands, which are the most northeasterly islands off of the mainland of New Ireland. There are approximately 3,000 people in the...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1975. — 121 p. Sursurunga is spoken by over 3000 people living in the Namatanai Subdistrict of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. An Austronesian language, it is part of the St George linkage, a subgroup of the Meso-Melanesian Family of languages.
Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1921. — 64 p. Lau is the name given to the language spoken by the inhabitants of the artificial islets which lie off the northeast coast of Big Malaita, Solomon Islands. It is a typical Melanesian language and has few marked peculiarities. The Lau of this grammar and vocabulary was learned from dealings with the Port Adam natives and also...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1980. — xii + 310 p. ISBN: 0858832097.
This work gives an account of the morphology and syntax of Nakanai, an Oceanic Austronesian language of West New Britain. The study takes the form of a reference guide to the contrastive structures and major syntactic features of Nakanai....
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1985. — viii + 306 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 88). Kwaio is an Austronesian language spoken by some 10,000 people in the mountainous central zone of Malaita, in south-eastern Solomon Islands. This grammar of the Kwaio language represents a by-product of twenty years of anthropological research with...
Asia-Pacific Linguistics, 2015. — xiii + 222 p. — ISBN: 9781922185143. Wala (also known as Langalanga in some sources) is an underdocumented Oceanic language spoken in west central Malaita, Solomon Islands, by approximately 7,000 speakers. The present book is a sketch grammar based on a 2007 New Testament translation published by Wycliffe Bible Translators. This work...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 839 p. — (Pacific Linguistics [PL] 639). The Solomon Islands has a rich linguistic heritage of over 60 languages, many of which have not been described in detail. This first dictionary of Owa, a South East Solomonic Language, contains over 3900 entries, which are typically illustrated with examples of natural language. An overview of...
Kiel: University of Kiel, 2007. — 148 p. Teop is an Oceanic language that is spoken in the north-east of the island of Bougainville, in the Tinputz District of the autonomous North Solomons Province of Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Nehan-North Bougainville network of the North-West Solomonic Group of the Meso-Melansesian Cluster. Similar to other Oceanic languages, Teop...
Lincom Europa, 1994. — 48 p. — (Languages of the world: Materials 31). Saliba is an Austronesian, Western Oceanic language which is spoken by fewer than one thousand people on the island of Saliba in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea. Genetically it belongs to the Suaic languages of the Papuan Tip Cluster. It seems to be closely related to Suau which functions as a mission...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1984. — 228 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 92). The aim of the present 'Tolai Syntax' is to provide a thorough description of the noun phrase, the verbal phrase and the clause, and to present it in such a way that information on these subjects is readily accessible to linguists interested in language...
Unpublished, 1979. — 100 p. Hote is a member of the South Huon Gulf branch of Austronesian languages spoken by approximately 3000 people living in the Lae sub-province of the Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Data for this paper was collected during nine months' residence in the village of Yemli from December 1976 untill October 1979.
University of Canterbury, 2013. — 274 p. This thesis is a sketch grammar of 'Are'are, a Southeast Solomonic language belonging to the Oceanic family, spoken mainly in the southern part of Malaita by approximately 18 000 speakers. Previous academic works documenting and describing 'Are'are are almost nonexistent. This sketch grammar is based on data collected during consultation...
Australian Catholic University, 2019. — 420 p. In this thesis I examine the distribution, functions and the development of transitive morphology in Southeast Solomonic languages, a subgroup of the Oceanic language family. The valency changing devices, and their allomorphs, are analysed both synchronically and diachronically. The synchronic transitivity marking and argument...
Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 2015. - lii +227 p. The main part of this book is the English translation of a linguistic document that comprehensively describes all grammatical aspects of the Lihir language. Written in the early 1930s by the German priest, ethnographer, and linguist Karl Neuhaus (1884–1944), this document depicts the language at that time and combines...
University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. — xxi + 422 p. — (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications 35). This work describes the grammar of Kokota, a highly endangered Oceanic language of the Solomon Islands, spoken by about nine hundred people on the island of Santa Isabel. After several long periods among the Kokota, Dr. Palmer has written an unusually detailed and comprehensive...
SIL-PNG Academic Publications, 2008. — vii + 160 p. The Lote language is spoken by approximately 6,000 people on the southern coast of East New Britain Province in Papua New Guinea. Lote is an Oceanic Austronesian language, classified by Chowning (1976) as belonging to the Mengen family, a small subgroup of Oceanic spoken on New Britain. The structure of Lote is not particularly...
Universitas Cenderawasih and Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1983. — x + 109 p. Wandamen is an Austronesian language spoken by about 8000 people, most of whom live on the north coast of West Papua in the sub-district of Wasior in the district of Manokwari. This sub-district is made up of nine village groupings and is located on the Wandamen Bay. This book consists of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1996. — vi + 392 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 135). — ISBN: 085883443X. This volume is the first of a set containing studies on the languages of New Britain and New Ireland. Although there is quite a diverse sprinkling of Papuan (i.e. non-Austronesian) languages on New Britain and New...
SIL Ukarumpa, 2005. — vii + 118 p. Siar-Lak is spoken by approximately 2,500 people living at the southern end of New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea. It is a Western Oceanic (Austronesian) language in the New Ireland/Northwest Solomonic linkage of the Meso-Melanesian cluster.
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 459 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 663). This is the first comprehensive description of Paluai, an Oceanic Austronesian language spoken on Baluan Island in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. Based on extensive field research, the grammar covers all linguistic levels, including phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, while paying particular attention to...
Ithaca: Cornell University and Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1977. — 51 p. — (Working Papers for the Language Variation and Limits to Communication Project 2). The present vocabulary is Of the language spoken in Bliau village on the Rai Coast of the gadang Provinced Papua New Ganea.
De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 558 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 659). This monograph is not only the first comprehensive grammar of Papapana (a previously undocumented and under-described endangered language) but the first full reference grammar of any Oceanic language of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, despite this region displaying considerable linguistic innovation and language...
SIL-PNG Academic Publications, 2013. — xi + 193 p. Mato is a language spoken on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea, just inside Morobe Province. Situated in the Uruwa River plain at the base of the Saruwaged Mountains, the Mato speakers live in six principal villages and number about 700. It is classified as one of the Ngero–Vitiaz languages, part of the Western Oceanic family...
SIL International, 1994. — 81 p. The Lou language is spoken by approximately 1,000 people on Lou Island in Manus Province in Papua New Guinea. Lou is an SVO Austronesian language classified as part of the South-East Islands Sub-family of the Manus family, which is part of the South-East Admiralty cluster.
SIL-PNG Academic Publications, 2019. — 292 p. Grammatical description of the Bola language, spoken by approximately 14,000 people on the Willaumez Peninsula on the north coast of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea.
Unpublished, 1986. — 77 p. The Sissano language is spoken by 6,000 people living in three villages: Sissano, Arop and Malol. Sissano is an Austronesian language of the Siau Family of the North New Guinea Coast Phylum.
SIL Ukarumpa, 2005. — vi + 96 p. Seimat is spoken by approximately 1,200 people living in the Ninigo Islands, which is part of Manus province in Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language of the Admiralties family, a group of some thirty languages which form a primary subgroup of the Oceanic family.
Australian Catholic University, 2020. — 167 p. One of the fundamental functions of language is the coordination of attention and/or knowledge between speech participants to facilitate the constructive exchange of information. The ways in which speakers attain intersubjective alignment in interaction have been examined by studies of engagement and information structure, both...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1979. — 144 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 16). Between 1966 and 1973 I spent two y ears on Goodenough Island, Milne Bay District, Papua New Guinea with Michael Young, my husband, who was doing anthropological research. During that period I recorded on tape, transcribed and translated almost 200...
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