Chapter 2 The Trans New Guinea family

• Huvudskapare: Pawley, Andrew (auth)
• Övriga skapare: Hammarström, Harald (auth), Palmer, Bill (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare)
• Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
• Språk: engelska
• Publicerad: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2017
• Ämnen: Language; linguistics; Regional studies; Papuan Languages; Linguistic Typology; Language Contact
• Länkar: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The island of New Guinea is a region of spectacular, deep linguistic diversity.1It contains roughly 850 languages, which on present evidence fall into at least 18 language families that are not demonstrably related, along with several iso-lates.2 This immense diversity, far greater than that found i...