31.2663, Books: The Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua: de Vries

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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:00:40
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: The Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua: de Vries

 


Title: The Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua 
Series Title: Pacific Linguistics [PL]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2F9j4Km 


Author: Lourens de Vries

Hardback: ISBN:  9781501515569 Pages: 253 Price: U.S. $ 137.99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Awyu


Written In: English  (eng)

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