Chapter 2 The Trans New Guinea family

• Главный автор: Pawley, Andrew (auth)
• Другие авторы: Hammarström, Harald (auth), Palmer, Bill (Редактор)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2017
• Предметы: Language; linguistics; Regional studies; Papuan Languages; Linguistic Typology; Language Contact
• Online-ссылка: 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...