Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua / Lourens de Vries.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pacific Linguistics [PL] ; 657Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (X, 253 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781501515569
  • 9781501506918
  • 9781501506956
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 499.12 23/ger
LOC classification:
  • PL6621.A99 V75 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Phonology -- Chapter 3 Morphology -- Chapter 4 Syntax -- Chapter 5 Discourse -- Chapter 6 Language in Greater Awyu society -- Chapter 7 Greater Awyu languages in context -- References -- 9 Appendix: Texts -- Index
Summary: This book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages. The book brings together many decades of research on Greater Awyu languages, including 10 years of field work by the author. The book presents a description of major patterns found in languages of the family: phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse. In addition, major aspects of the anthropological linguistics of Greater Awyu languages are described: counting systems, language names, kinship, linguistic ideologies, lexical substitution registers, avoidance and taboo. The linguistic patterns of Greater Awyu languages are systematically placed in the genetic, typological, areal and historical contexts of New Guinea. The long dialect continuums within the family, by reflecting different diachronic stages, offer a window on the origin of switch reference, clause chaining, topic markers, postpositions and double-headed relative clauses. The book is relevant for readers interested in the typological, historical and cultural linguistics of New Guinea but also for anthropologists and historians because the history and cultural practices of Greater Awyu speakers are a key part of the story of this language family.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501506956

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Phonology -- Chapter 3 Morphology -- Chapter 4 Syntax -- Chapter 5 Discourse -- Chapter 6 Language in Greater Awyu society -- Chapter 7 Greater Awyu languages in context -- References -- 9 Appendix: Texts -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages. The book brings together many decades of research on Greater Awyu languages, including 10 years of field work by the author. The book presents a description of major patterns found in languages of the family: phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse. In addition, major aspects of the anthropological linguistics of Greater Awyu languages are described: counting systems, language names, kinship, linguistic ideologies, lexical substitution registers, avoidance and taboo. The linguistic patterns of Greater Awyu languages are systematically placed in the genetic, typological, areal and historical contexts of New Guinea. The long dialect continuums within the family, by reflecting different diachronic stages, offer a window on the origin of switch reference, clause chaining, topic markers, postpositions and double-headed relative clauses. The book is relevant for readers interested in the typological, historical and cultural linguistics of New Guinea but also for anthropologists and historians because the history and cultural practices of Greater Awyu speakers are a key part of the story of this language family.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)