New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 1, Papuan languages and the New Guinea linguistic scene
Creators: name: Wurm, S.A. (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1975

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description: DEDICATION BY THE HONOURABLE THE PRIME MINISTER OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA, MR M.T. SOMARE, M.P. iiiSPECIAL DEDICATION TO THE FIRST VOLUME BY THE HONOURABLE THE PRIME MINISTER OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA, MR M.T. SOMARE, M.P. vPREFACE viiSUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS xINTRODUCTION xiiiDETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS OF DIVISIONS 1-3 xxivDIVISION 1. GENERAL LANGUAGE SITUATION 1{S.A. Wurm} 3 1.0. Language Distribution in the New Guinea AreaDIVISION 2. PAPUAN LANGUAGES 39PART 2.1. HISTORY OF RESEARCH IN PAPUAN LANGUAGES 41{D.C. Laycock} 43 2.1.1. A Hundred Years of Papuan Linguistic Research: Eastern New Guinea Area{C.L. Voorhoeve} 117 2.1.2. A Hundred Years of Papuan Linguistic Research: Western New Guinea AreaPART 2.2. LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION 143{S.A. Wurm and K. McElhanon} 145 2.2.0. Papuan Language Classification Problems PART 2.3. THE NATURE OF PAPUAN LANGUAGES 165{S.A. Wurm} 167 2.3.1. The Nature of Papuan Languages: Introductory Remarks{S.A. Wurm, D.C. Laycock and C.L. Voorhoeve} 171 2.3.2. General Papuan Characteristics{S.A. Wurm} 191 2.3.3. Personal Pronouns{D.C. Laycock} 219 2.3.4. Observations on Number Systems and SemanticsPART 2.4. THE APPLICATION OF THE COMPARATIVE METHOD TO PAPUAN LANGUAGES 235{S.A. Wurm} 237 2.4.1. The Application of the Comparative Method to Papuan Languages: General and Highlands{K.J. Franklin} 263 2.4.2. Comments on Proto-Engan{H.B. Kerr} 277 2.4.3. The Relationship of Wiru in the Southern Highlands District to Languages of the East New Guinea Highlands StockPART 2.5.-2.9. THE TRANS-NEW GUINEA PHYLUM 297{S.A. Wurra, C.L. Voorhoeve and K. McElhanon} 299 2.5. The Trans-New Guinea Phylum in General 299 2.6. The Central and Western Areas of the Trans-New Guinea Phylum 323{S.A. Wurm} 323 2.6.1. The Trans-Fly (Sub-Phylum-Level) Stock{C.L. Voorhoeve} 345 2.6.2. Central and Western Trans-New Guinea Phylum Languages{S.A. Wurm} 461 2.7. Eastern Central Trans-New Guinea Phylum Languages 461 2.8. The North-Eastern Areas of the Trans-New Guinea Phylum 527{K. McElhanon} 527 2.8.1. North Eastern Trans-New Guinea Phylum Languages{J. Z'graggen} 569 2.8.2. The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum{T.E. Dutton} 613 2.9. South-Eastern Trans-New Guinea Phylum LanguagesPART 2.10. THE WEST PAPUAN PHYLUM 665{A. Capell} 667 2.10.1. The "West Papuan Phylum": General, and Timor and Areas Further West{C.L. Voorhoeve} 717 2.10.2. The West Papuan Phylum: VogelkopPART 2.11. THE SEPIK-RAMU PHYLUM 729{D.C. Laycock and J. Z'graggen} 731 2.11.0. The Sepik-Ramu PhylumPART 2.12. THE TORRICELLI PHYLUM 765{D.C. Laycock} 767 2.12.0. The Torricelli PhylumPART 2.13. THE EAST PAPUAN PHYLUM 781{S.A. Wurm} 783 2.13.1. The East Papuan Phylum in General{Evelyn M. Todd} 805 2.13.2. The Solomon Language FamilyPART 2.14. SMALL PHYLIC GROUPS 847{D.C. Laycock} 849 2.14.1. Sko, Kwomtari, and Left May (Arai) Phyla{K.J. Franklin} 859 2.14.2. Inland Gulf, Elema "Phyla"{C.L. Voorhoeve} 867 2.14.3. East Bird's Head, Geelvink Bay PhylaPART 2.15. ISOLATES 879{D.C. Laycock} 881 2.15.1. Isolates: Sepik Region{C.L. Voorhoeve} 887 2.15.2. Isolates: Irian Jaya{K.J. Franklin} 891 2.15.3. Isolates: Gulf District{K. McElhanon} 897 2.15.4. Isolates: Morobe District: Wasembo (or Gusap)PART 2.16. POSSIBLE WIDER CONNECTIONS OF PAPUAN LANGUAGES 903{D.C. Laycock} 905 2.16.1. Possible Wider Connections of Papuan Languages: South-East Asia{S.A. Wurm} 915 2.16.2. Possible Wider Connections of Papuan Languages: Torres Strait and North Australia{S.A. Wurm} 925 2.16.3. Possible Wider Connections of Papuan Languages: Papuan and Australian; Greenberg's Indo-Pacific HypothesisDIVISION 3. LINGUISTIC PREHISTORY 933{S.A. Wurm, D.C. Laycock, C.L. Voorhoeve and T.E. Dutton} 935 3.0. Papuan Linguistic Prehistory, and Past Language Migrations in the New Guinea Area%BACK 961BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 961INDEXES: 967 Index of Language Names 969 Index of Other Names 1003 Index of Authors' and Other Personal Names 1029