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Lomas, G. C. J. (Gabriel Charles Jacques). "The Huli language of Papua New Guinea." Australia : Macquarie University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/22313.

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Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, School of English and Linguistics, 1989.<br>Bibliography: leaves 385-393.<br>Introduction -- Traditional Huli society -- Segmental phonology -- Prosodies -- Verbs -- Adverbials -- NominaIs -- Word complexes -- Group complexes -- Semantic patterns -- Linguistic and social change -- Texts.<br>This thesis describes the language of the Huli speech community of the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The first chapter situates the speech community in its historical setting, and refers to previous, mainly non-linguistic, studies. The second chapter situates

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Lomas, G. C. J. "The Huli language of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/22313.

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de, Sousa Hilário. "The Menggwa Dla language of New Guinea." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1341.

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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)<br>Menggwa Dla is a Papuan language spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea and Kabupaten Jayapura of Papua Province, Indonesia. Menggwa Dla is a dialect of the Dla language; together with its sister language Anggor (e.g. Litteral 1980), the two languages form the Senagi language family, one of the small Papuan language families found in North-Central New Guinea. The main text of this thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the linguistic, cultural and political landscapes of the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border area where the Dla territ

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de, Sousa Hilário. "The Menggwa Dla language of New Guinea." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1341.

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Menggwa Dla is a Papuan language spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea and Kabupaten Jayapura of Papua Province, Indonesia. Menggwa Dla is a dialect of the Dla language; together with its sister language Anggor (e.g. Litteral 1980), the two languages form the Senagi language family, one of the small Papuan language families found in North-Central New Guinea. The main text of this thesis is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the linguistic, cultural and political landscapes of the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border area where the Dla territory is located. Chapter 2 in

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Ingram, Andrew. "Anamuxra : a language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9823.

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Corris, Miriam. "A grammar of Barupu : a language of Papua New Guinea." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3655.

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This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Barupu, the easternmost member of the Skou family of languages. Barupu is spoken by around 3000 people on the north eoast of New Guinea; its grammar has not previously been described. Barupu is a tone language in which words belong to one of five tone classes and it exemplifies a type of pitch-accent system where for the most part tone is attracted to penultimate stressed syllables and spreads one syllable to the right. Some words, however, have tones lexically specified to one of the final two syllables ofthe word. A key feature of Barupu grammar is tha

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Corris, Miriam. "A grammar of Barupu : a language of Papua New Guinea." University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/3655.

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Doctor of Philosophy<br>This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Barupu, the easternmost member of the Skou family of languages. Barupu is spoken by around 3000 people on the north eoast of New Guinea; its grammar has not previously been described. Barupu is a tone language in which words belong to one of five tone classes and it exemplifies a type of pitch-accent system where for the most part tone is attracted to penultimate stressed syllables and spreads one syllable to the right. Some words, however, have tones lexically specified to one of the final two syllables ofthe word. A key feature

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Tida, Syuntaro. "A grammar of the Dom language : a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/143786.

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Wilson, Jennifer. "A Grammar of Yeri a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea." Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10255769.

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<p> This dissertation is a grammar of Yeri, an endangered Torricelli language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. The language is still spoken, to at least some degree, by approximately 100–150 speakers, most of whom live in Yapunda village. This grammar is based on primary data collected from Yeri speakers during the author’s eleven months of fieldwork, which was spread out over the course of three field trips. The primary data on which this grammar is founded can be accessed at The Language Archive. This grammar constitutes the first description of the Yeri language.</p

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Aiton, Grant. "A Grammar of Eibela: A language of Western Province, Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, James Cook University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/243896.

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This thesis is a reference grammar of the Eibela language, also referred to as Aimele (Ethnologue code: AIL). Eibela has approximately 300 speakers living primarily in Lake Campbell, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The majority of the data for this thesis was gathered in Lake Campbell, with some addition research taking place in Wawoi Falls, Western Province. In Lake Campbell, Eibela is the dominant language of the community, and is the language of day-to-day life. English and Tok Pisin are becoming more prominent as languages of commerce, and are preferred for written communication. Most

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Reesink, Ger P. "Structures and their functions in Usan, a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea /." Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34939623k.

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Lindström, Eva. "Topics in the grammar of Kuot, a non-Austronesian language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-19184.

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This thesis describes certain areas in the grammar of the little-known Kuot language, spoken by some 1,500 people in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea. Kuot is an isolate, and is the only non-Austronesian (Papuan) language of that province. The analyses presented here are based on original data from 18 months of linguistic fieldwork. The first chapter provides an overview of Kuot grammar, and gives details of earlier mentions of the language, and of data collection and the fieldwork situation. The second chapter presents information about the prehistory and history of the area, the soci

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Turegano, Mansilla Mª del Pilar. "Language and society in papua new guinea: pidginization, crelization and decreolization in tok pisin." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de València, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/9780.

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As a result of colonialism, pidgins and creoles emerged around the world in order to fulfil the communicative needs of the people who came in contact in the new situation. As those needs disappeared pidgins also gradually disappeared. However, in some areas, such as Papua New Guinea, the need for a common language in such a linguistically heterogeneous society helped the impoverished pidgin evolve into an extended pidgin suitable for use in a wide range of contexts and functions.This dissertation analyzes the parallel developments of Tok Pisin and the history of its speakers, from the birth of

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Mathieu-Reeves, Danielle Gilberte 1984. "Reanalysis of Serial Verb Constructions in Yimas, a Sepik-Ramu Language of Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9836.

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viii, 70 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.<br>Yimas, a Nor-Pondo language of the Lower Sepik-Ramu in Papua New Guinea, has two causative constructions and one attemptive construction that appear to have developed historically from a particular kind of serial verb construction. Although Yimas has many complex verbal constructions, including three kinds of serial verb constructions, all three novel constructions, it is argued, were reanalyzed from juxtaposition serial verb constructions (JSC).

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Stanton, Lee. "Topics in Ura Phonology and Morphophonology, with Lexicographic Application." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Linguistics, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/940.

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Ura, a minority language spoken in Papua New Guinea, appears to be a candidate for eventual extinction, with an estimated 1,900 speakers, very few (if any) of them monolinguals. Any language is a unique vantage point from which to see humanity and our world in its various facets, and preserving endangered languages seems at least as worthy a pursuit as the many efforts globally at saving endangered species of flora and fauna. Also of great importance is the revitalisation (or first-time facilitation) of identity, esteem and dignity for speakers with regard to their language (and, inseparably,

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Young, Kathryn, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "AN ONGOING COLONIAL LEGACY: CONTEMPORARY EDUCATION BELIEFS AND PRACTICES IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA." Deakin University. School of Education / School of Social & Cultural Studies, 2000. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040726.102645.

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In the late 1980¡¦s, a realisation that the western education system bequeathed to Papua New Guinea at the time of Independence had functioned to devalue and marginalise many of the traditional beliefs, knowledge and skills students brought with them to education, led to a period of significant education reform. The Reform was premised on the report of a Ministerial Review Committee called A Philosophy of Education. This report made recommendations about how education in Papua New Guinea could respond to the issues and challenges this nation faced as it sought to chart a course to serve the ne

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Landweer, Martha Lynn. "A Melanesian perspective on mechanisms of language maintenance and shift : case studies from Papua New Guinea." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429294.

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Levy, Catherine M. B. R. "A tentative description of Awar phonology and morphology: lower Ramu family, Papua-New Guinea." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211386.

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Renck, Günther. "Contextualization of Christianity and Christianization of language : a case study from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea /." Erlangen : Verl. der Evang.-Luth. Mission, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36657762f.

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Hynum, Barbara J. "Indigenously authored and illustrated literature: An answer to esoteric notions of literacy among the Numanggang adults of Papua New Guinea." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1719.

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Harvey, Jana R. "Tok Pisin on the Internet." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1370880.

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Internet message boards are a medium by which educated Papua New Guineans who are living outside of Papua New Guinea (PNG) maintain ties to one another and to their home country. One of the languages that they use on these message boards is Tok Pisin (TP), an English-based creole spoken in PNG that has changed rapidly in theapproximately 120 years since its creation as a pidgin.Romaine (1992) suggests that decreolization by means of new changes toward English is occurring in the TP language. Smith (2002) disagrees and claims that there is no evidence for decreolization. This study shows that t

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Hughes, Linda E. "Something more than a collection of villages: an analysis of the construction of nationalism in English language community school textbooks in Papua New Guinea 1950-1990." Adelaide, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09EDM/09edmh893.pdf.

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Onishi, Masayuki. "A grammar of Motuna (Bougainville, Papua New Guinea)." Phd thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/12476.

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This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Motuna, a Non-Austronesian language spoken by several thousand people in the south-western part of Bougainville (called Siwai), Papua New Guinea. It belongs to the Buin Family of the Eastern Bougainville stock, in the Bougainville Phylum. This grammar is based on the analysis of narrative texts provided by four speakers of the standard Motuna. Motuna is a both head and dependent marking agglutinative language with complex morphology. Like most Non-Austronesian languages in Papua NewGuinea, it is verb final, and has medial and non-medial verbal categori

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Priestley, Carol. "A grammar of Koromu (Kesawai) : a trans New Guinea language of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150382.

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Honeyman, Thomas Tout. "A grammar of Momu, a language of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132961.

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This thesis is a description of the grammar of Eastern Momu, a language spoken in Papua New Guinea in the north-western province of Sandaun. This is a region with a fair amount of diversity, with several isolates or small language families, and few detailed descriptions. Momu, or Fas as it is more commonly known in the literature, together with the virtually undocumented Baibai language, forms one of these small language families. The thesis is structured such that after a general introduction to the people, language, and region, I give chapters co

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Bugenhagen, Robert D. "A grammar of Mangap-Mbula : an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/133337.

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The aim of the present work is to provide a comprehensive and rigorous synchronic description of grammatical structures and their meanings in Mangap-Mbula, an Austronesian language spoken in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. Occasional reference is also made to diachronic matters when these touch upon or help to explain synchronic patterns. In the introductory chapter, the linguistic, geographic, and cultural setting of Mangap-Mbula is described, significant dialect variations are outlined, previously published material on the language is noted, the nature and sources of the da

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Smallhorn, Jacinta Mary. "A reconstruction and subgrouping of the Binanderean languages of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148230.

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Whitehead, Carl Robert. "A reference grammar of Menya, an Angan language of Papua New Guinea." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/17921.

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Schokkin, Gerda Hendrike. "A grammar of Paluai: the language of Baluan Island, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, 2014. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/28026/1/28026-schokkin-2014-thesis.pdf.

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This thesis is a reference grammar of Paluai, an Austronesian language belonging to the Admiralties subgroup of Oceanic. Paluai is spoken on Baluan Island in the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea. It is predominantly isolating, with comparatively little productive morphology. Bound morphology is of the agglutinating type: morpheme boundaries are clear. The language is predominantly head-marking. Basic constituent order is SV for intransitive clauses and AVO for transitive clauses. However, constituents such as Objects, Obliques and Possessors can be fronted to pre-subject position via a topic

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Bradshaw, Robert L. "A grammar of Doromu-Koki: a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea." Thesis, 2022. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/75450/7/JCU_75450_Bradshaw_2022_thesis.pdf.

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Robert Bradshaw conducted research on the Doromu-Koki language of Papua New Guinea. He produced a grammatical analysis of this Papuan (Southeast Manubaran) language, spoken by 2,000 speakers. His research encompasses aspects of the language and promotes preservation of an endangered language for the benefit of speakers and linguistic scholarship.

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Rumere, Deborah Anne. "Initial literacy in Papua New Guinea-indigenous languages, Tok Pisin or English?" 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ED.M/09ed.mr936.pdf.

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Aiton, Grant William. "A grammar of Eibela: a language of the Western Province, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, 2016. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/49404/1/49404-aiton-2016-thesis.pdf.

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This thesis is a reference grammar of the Eibela language, also referred to as Aimele (Ethnologue code: AIL). Eibela has approximately 300 speakers living primarily in Lake Campbell, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The majority of the data for this thesis was gathered in Lake Campbell, with some addition research taking place in Wawoi Falls, Western Province. In Lake Campbell, Eibela is the dominant language of the community, and is the language of dayto-day life. English and Tok Pisin are becoming more prominent as languages of commerce, and are preferred for written communication. Most m

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Döhler, Christian. "Komnzo: A language of Southern New Guinea." Phd thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/107178.

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This thesis provides an introduction to Komnzo, a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea. Komnzo is spoken by around 200 people in the village of Rouku and a couple of adjacent hamlets. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus which the author recorded and transcribed between 2010 and 2015. The corpus adds up to ten hour

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Farr, Cynthia. "The interface between syntax and discourse in Korafe : a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145373.

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Sarvasy, Hannah Sacha. "A grammar of Nungon: a Papuan language of the Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, 2014. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/40832/1/40832-sarvasy-2014-thesis.pdf.

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This thesis is a reference grammar of Nungon, a Papuan (non-Austronesian) language spoken by about 1,000 people in the southern Uruwa River valley, Kabwum District, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Nungon forms the southern, higher-elevation, end of an elliptical dialect continuum with the Uruwa River at its center. This grammar focuses on the dialect of Towet village. Nungon is an agglutinating language with some fusion. Nouns, adjectives, and verbs are open classes. There are relatively few inflecting verbs, however; loans are incorporated with auxiliary verbs. Clauses are verb-final, a

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Boettger, Juliane. "Topics in the grammar of Lele: a language of Manus Island, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, 2015. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/41204/1/41204-boettger-2015-thesis.pdf.

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This thesis examines topics in the grammar of the Lele language, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Lele is spoken by ca. 4,500 people on mainland Manus Island and belongs to the little known Admiralties languages, a higher order subgroup of the Oceanic (Austronesian) language family. The methodology of language description followed the principles of the Basic Linguistic Theory (Dixon 2009a, b, 2012). The material that served as the basis of description was collected during long field stays particularly to Sapon village, from 2012 to 2014. The field research is based on the principle of immersion

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Pennington, Ryan. "A grammar of Ma Manda a Papuan language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea." Thesis, 2016. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/48926/1/48926-pennington-2016-thesis.pdf.

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This is a grammar of Ma Manda, a language of Papua New Guinea, which covers major aspects of this previously undescribed language. The analysis is supported by culturally-embedded examples from a recorded text corpus. The result is a comprehensive preservation of this endangered language for its speakers, and for linguistic and anthropological scholars working in the Papuan arena.

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Fyfe, Andrew. "Gender, mobility and population history : exploring material culture distributions in the Upper Sepik and Central New Guinea." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/53352.

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New Guinea is the most linguistically diverse region in the world. There are over 1000 languages found there, reflecting a complex history of migration and interaction. The Upper Sepik is one of New Guinea’s most linguistically heterogeneous areas but because the area has not been marked by the significant population movement and intense and far-reaching exchange systems apparent for some parts of New Guinea, this diversity may be more indicative of processes that maintain rather than lead to linguistic diversity. Accordingly, the region may offer great potential for those investigating popula

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Dobrin, Lise Miriam. "Phonological form, morphological class, and syntactic gender : the noun class systems of Papua New Guinea Arapeshan /." 1999. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9943061.

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Sawaki, Yusuf Willem. "A grammar of Wooi: An Austronesian language of Yapen Island, Western New Guinea." Phd thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/136851.

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This thesis is a description of Wooi, an Austronesian language of the South Halmahera-West New Guinea group, spoken on Yapen Island, Western New Guinea. The language is spoken by approximately 3,000 people in three main villages: Wooi, Woinap and Yenuari, and others scattered around cities in West Papua. The areas of grammar covered in this thesis are phonology (chapter 2), word classes (chapter 3), noun phrases (chapter 4), possession and possessive constructions (chapter 5), verbal morphology (chapter 6), the clause (chapter 7), grammatical relat

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Reed, Lauren W. "Sign Languages of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, and their Challenges for Sign Language Typology." Master's thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/165444.

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The diverse sign languages (SLs) between established deaf community SLs and homesign have been called the “grey area” of SL linguistics, by virtue of their resistance to classification and the fact that they are understudied (Nyst, 2010, p. 416). This thesis investigates the languages of 12 deaf people living in the Nebilyer/Kaugel region of the rural Papua New Guinea highlands, with the view to situating them within the extant sociodemographic typology of SLs. I do this by considering sociodemographic data of deaf individuals, comparison of sign bases to determine lexical consistency, and emi

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Lawton, Ralph Stanley. "The making of the Kiriwina to English dictionary." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149732.

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This thesis describes the making of the Kiriwina to English dictionary and its structure and content. The dictionary, which presently exists as a computer file containing some 20,000 entries, was compiled over several decades and is the most comprehensive for Kiriwina yet written. There are seven chapters. In the first chapter, after introducing the people's land, language and culture, I give an account of past research into their language. Chapter 2 sketches Kiriwina phonology, and sets out the orthography. Chapter 3 provides a fairly detailed grammar sketch, including an account of the vari

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Marmion, Douglas Edric. "Topics in the phonology and morphology of Wutung." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109372.

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This thesis describes several aspects of the grammar of Wutung, a language spoken on the far north-west coast of Papua New Guinea, straddling the border with Indonesia. The thesis is divided into eight chapters falling broadly into two parts. The first part focuses primarily on phonology and phonetics, while the second details aspects of the verbal morphology, the structure of the clause and of the noun phrase. Chapter 1, the introduction, provides a general background to the people, their village and their language and includes a brief discussion of the sociolinguistic context. Chapter 2 prov

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Hoenigman, Darja. "'The talk goes many ways' : registers of language and modes of performance in Kanjimei, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155259.

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This thesis focuses on language and modes of performance in Kanjimei village, a small, largely endogamous community in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. The approximately 300 members of this community speak Awiakay, a Papuan language belonging to the Arafundi group, and call themselves Awiakay. Based on 23 months of fieldwork, and drawing material from video recordings of natural speech situations, the thesis analyses the form and social functions of a range of different linguistic registers and the ways in which each of them reflects - and is itself a part of - socio-cultural continuity

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May, Thorold (Thor). "Language tangle: predicting and facilitating outcomes in language education." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804346.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<br>This thesis argues that foreign and second language teaching productivity can only reach its proper potential when it is accorded priority, second only to language learner productivity, amongst the many competing productivities which are always asserted by stakeholders in educational institutions. A theoretical foundation for the research is established by examining the historical concept of productivity, and its more recent manifestation as knowledge worker productivity, especially as applied to teachers. The empirical basis of the thesis is

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Oates, Colleen A. "What price paradise : a study of the effects of the Ok Tedi Mine on Ninggirum people of Papua New Guinea." Thesis, 2012. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/529894.

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The aim of this cultural story is to explore the effects of global economic development on the local indigenous culture of the Ninggirum people of Papua New Guinea whose border lands encompass the Ok Tedi Mine. Since 1991 I have lived in the Ninggirum community, working in their language development programme as a linguist/translator, and a significant part of the study has been the examination of my own entanglements in the constitution of the postcolonial subject and its communities and places. Research methods include recording traditional oral stories and contemporary life stories in Ningg

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(11394317), Christoph Holz. "A comprehensive grammar of Tiang." Thesis, 2023. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/A_comprehensive_grammar_of_Tiang/25182350.

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Tiang is an Oceanic language spoken by about 4000 people on Djaul Island in the northwest of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The present grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language. It is based on eight months of immersion fieldwork in the Tiang community and follows the framework of Basic Linguistic Theory. Tiang is a nominative–accusative language with a basic constituent order of AVO. Compared to other Oceanic languages, it has a rather large number of vowel phonemes, among which there are three central vowels. Various phonological processes occur across morpheme boundarie

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Iwamoto, Enoch. "Visibility and argument identification : a conceptual semantic approach to Alamblak and Japanese." Phd thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/132371.

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This study attempts to combine the Government and Binding (GB) theory and Conceptual Semantics to provide an account for problems in the basic grammatical structures of Alamblak and some topics of Japanese. The thesis assumes Jackendovian Conceptual Semantics but aims to propose an alternative theory which establishes the relationship between syntax and semantics with maximum principles and minimum stipulations. The main concepts of the theory are argument identification and visibility. First, I introduce binary conceptual structure, whereby the hierarchical relationship among conceptu

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Hood, Ronald P. "Nembi worldview themes an ethnosemantic analysis /." 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/29348030.html.

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Blake, Fiona. "Spatial Reference in Momu." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1919.

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Spatial reference - how we communicate notions such as location, motion and direction - is an important area of current research. Recent studies involving detailed analysis of geographically and typologically diverse languages have uncovered extensive and unexpected variation in the means languages utilise to encode spatial relations. This thesis aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge about the cross-linguistic representation of the spatial domain. It is an analysis of fieldwork data which was collected for a preliminary investigation into the spatial reference system of Momu (als

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