The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 April 2026
- ISBN 9780198849483
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1280 pages
- Size 276x219 mm
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of the Papuan languages, spoken on the island of New Guinea and making up around 12% of the world's languages. It will be a crucial reference not only for scholars of Papuan languages but also for anyone interested in the human history of this fascinating and little-known part of the world.
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This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of the Papuan languages, spoken on the island of New Guinea and its surroundings. They make up around 12% of the world's languages, with a level of linguistic diversity comparable to the vast Eurasian zone concentrated into just 1% of the world's land area. This is true whether we count individual languages (around 890), families and isolates (around 95), or elements of structural diversity: many linguistic phenomena were first reported or are still only attested in this region.
Following a detailed introduction by the editors, The Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages is divided into four parts. The first provides structural descriptions of 23 languages from across the region, many of which have never previously been described. Part II includes typological surveys of features that are of particular interest in Papuan languages, from tone to valency change, and from information structure to kinship terminology. Chapters in Part III explore language in its cultural context, with topics including multilingualism, sign languages, and language shift, while Part IV focuses on historical and contact studies. The volume will be a crucial reference not only for scholars of Papuan languages but also for anyone interested in the human history of this fascinating and little-known part of the world.
Table of Contents:
Papuan languages: A general introduction
Part I. Language descriptions
Mpur (Isolate, Birds Head)
Abawiri (Lakes Plain)
Sentani (Sentanic)
Skou (Sko)
Srenge (Torricelli)
Tuwari (Walio)
Haruai (Piawi)
Iatmul (Sepik, Ndu)
Awiakay (Arafundi)
Baining (New Britain)
Touo (Isolate, Solomon Is.)
Bine (Oriomo)
Yei (Yam)
Soq (TNG, Madang)
Menya (TNG, Angan)
Eipo (TNG, Mek)
Nalca (TNG, Mek)
Telefol (TNG, Ok Oksapmin)
Yaqay (TNG, Anim)
Urama (TNG, Kiwaian)
Iha (TNG, West Bomberai)
Kalamang (TNG, West Bomberai)
Abui (TNG, Alor Pantar)
Part II. The typology of Papuan languages
A typology of Papuan segmental phoneme inventories
Tone in Papuan languages
Semantic typology in Papuan languages
Lexical typology in Papuan languages, with special reference to colexification
Kinship terminology in Papuan languages
Ethnobiological nomenclature in Papuan languages
Lexicography and lexicology of Papuan languages
Alignment in Papuan languages
Valency change in Papuan languages
Reciprocal constructions in Papuan languages
Tense, aspect, and mood systems in Papuan languages
Evidentiality and epistemic marking in Papuan languages
Serial verbs in Papuan languages
Coverb constructions in Papuan languages
Demonstratives in Papuan languages
Numeral systems in Papuan languages
Nominal classification in Papuan languages
Possession in Papuan languages
Grammatical number in Papuan languages
Suppletion in Papuan languages
Switch reference in Papuan languages: Synchronic and diachronic
Clause chaining in Papuan languages
Reported speech in Papuan languages
Information structure in Papuan languages
Discourse patterns and emerging grammar in Papuan languages
Part III. Papuan languages in their cultural context
Multilingualism in the Papuasphere
Speech styles and registers in Papuan languages
Language, song, and sung tales in the Papuan region
Names and naming in Papuan languages of New Guinea
Gesture in New Guinea
Sign languages of the Papuasphere
Sociocultural processes of Papuan linguistic diversification
Sociolinguistic variation in New Guinea
The contemporary sociolinguistics of Tanah Papua
Rampant language shift in Papua New Guinea
Acquisition of Papuan languages
Language socialization in Papuan languages
An overview of the missionary linguistics of New Guinea
Part IV. Papuan historical and areal linguistics
Tentatively tracing Trans New Guinea
The Madang branch of Trans New Guinea
Comparative grammar of the Huon peninsula languages
Contact-induced morphological change in Dedua
Historical linguistics of the Yam family
Papuan-Austronesian contact in pre-modern eastern Indonesia
Austronesian-Papuan contact in Northwestern New Guinea
Papuan-Papuan contact: Sepik
Papuan Malay
Papuan histories and linguistics
