Port Moresby, E.G. Baker Government Printer, 1928. — vii + 60 p. Dobu belongs to the Papuan Tip branch of the Western Oceanic languages. It is spoken by approximately 10,000 people on Dobu and Sanaroa and adjacent small islands and is a lingua franca used throughout the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, and to a smaller extent throughout the rest of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1974. — xvii + 259 p. ISBN: 0858831120. As the title suggests, Beginning Hiri Motu is an introductory language-learning course in Hiri Motu, the principal lingua franca of Papua. It is a revised version of a series of lessons developed and used for teaching the essentials of the...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1974. — xvii + 259 p. — ISBN: 0858831120. As the title suggests, Beginning Hiri Motu is an introductory language-learning course in Hiri Motu, the principal lingua franca of Papua. It is a revised version of a series of lessons developed and used for teaching the essentials of the...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1997. — xvi + 320 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 137). — ISBN: 0858834588 The Tawala language is spoken by some 10,000 people. They live in hamlets and small villages on the East Cape peninsula, along the shores of Milne Bay and on parts of the islands of Sideia and Basilaki. In all, there are...
Unpublished, 1980. — 37 p.
The study of Tawala verb classes is undertaken with the ultimate purpose of investigating the relationship between semantics and syntax in Tawala verbs.
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1983. — 162 p.
This first volume is an introduction to the Tawala language. It is intended primarily as a tool to help those who want to learn the language for themselves. At all times I have endeavoured to explain the Tawala language in terms that a non-linguist can understand, by using as few technical terms as possible. The Tawala language...
SIL International, 2020. — 142 p. Maisin: A Grammatical Description of an Oceanic Language in PNG is a descriptive study of the Maisin language spoken in Collingwood Bay on the north coast of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, with particular treatment of those features that distinguish the language from other Austronesian languages within the Papuan Tip cluster. It is given the...
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 2002. — vi + 117 p. Koluwawa is an Austronesian language and a member of the Papuan Tip cluster of the Bwaidoga network. It is located on West Fergusson Island in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.
Unpublished Manuscript, 1978. — 52 p. Nineteen short lessons in the Iduna language (Vivigana dialect) with additional sections on Everyday Conversation, Personal Expressions, Time Words, Question Words, Possessives and Verbs.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1998. — xx + 600 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 138). This book represents the first comprehensive sketch of the grammar of Mekeo, an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. Mekeo represents the furthest geographical limit of a series of Austronesian migrations that gradually progressed...
2nd and revised edition — Sydney: Charles Potter, government printer, 1888. — 154 p. Preface to first edition. The following pages represent the first attempt to classify and reduce to a written form the grammar and vocabulary of the language spoken by the Motu tribe of New Guinea. As a first attempt it is necessarily imperfect, but I need make no apology for its publication....
D. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National Univ., 1993. — 368 p. — (Pacific Linguistics, Series D - 84). Topics covered by the present work are the phonology of Kiriwina , a detailed account of the verb phrase , Kiriwina clause structure and its variations and their functions , and an extensive description of the system of classifiers (...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1993. — 360 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 84). Edited by Malcolm Ross and Janet Ezard The present volume contains an edited version of Lawton's dissertation and of other work which he did in the course of his studies. It would, of course, have been preferable for this work to be published shortly...
2nd edition — Sydney: Edited by Percy Chatterton. — 102 p.
The Motu language is spoken by the Motu tribe, living along the coast from Manumanu to Gabagaba (Kapakapa) in the Central Division of Papua. It is also widely used, in a " pidgin " form known as " Police Motu," as a lingua franca among natives of other tribes. There are considerable local differences in vocabulary and...
SIL Papua New Guinea, 2021. — v + 133 p. Kaninuwa is an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 800 people living in Milne Bay Province in southeastern Papua New Guinea.. It is a member of the Are-Taupota chain of the Papuan Tip cluster of Western Oceanic languages. Although it is an SOV language, it has both subordinate clauses and some peripheral arguments that occur...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 396 p. — (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics). Senft examines the system of classificatory particles - the divisions of the noun lexicon into distinct classes - in Kilivila, the Austronesian language of the Trobrian Islanders of Papua New Guinea. Using data gathered in field research, he describes the inventory of classifiers realized...
Berlin—New York—Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. — 600 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 3). Зенфт Гюнтер. Киливила, язык островов Тробриан (на англ. яз.) An Introduction to Kilivila. Phonology. Parts of Speech — Inflectional Morphology. Syntax. A Brief Excursus on Style. Syntactic Analysis of a Kilivila Sentence and three Sample Texts with Morpheme-Interlinear and Free...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2010. — 345 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 27). Bronislaw Malinowski claimed in his monograph Argonauts of the Western Pacific that to approach the goal of ethnographic field-work, requires a "collection of ethnographic statements, characteristic narratives, typical utterances, items of folk-lore and magical formulae as a corpus...
Monash University, 2020. — 442 p. The thesis Verbal morphosyntax and three-participant events in Sudest, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea investigates the word and sentence structure of the Sudest language with a particular emphasis on the expression of events such as ‘give’, ‘take’, ‘feed’, and ‘show’. The thesis is based on language data collected during fieldwork on...
Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej, 2002. — (Prace Monograficzne nr 336) — 298 p. Щербовский Тадеуш. Киривина, язык островов Тробриан (на польском яз.) 1. Wstęp 2. Gramatyka języka kiriwina 2.1. Fonologia 2.2. Morfologia 2.3. Elementy słowotwórstwa 2.4. Składnia 3. Słownictwo kiriwińskie 3.1. Dziedzina semantyczna 3.2. Słownictwo kiriwińskie w wybranych...
Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1999. — x + 114 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 143). — ISBN: 0858834901. Sinaugoro is a large Austronesian language belonging to the Papuan Tip Cluster. It is spoken by approximately 15,000 people living in the Rigo district of the Central Province some 70 kilometres south-east of Port Moresby....
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1963. — vi + 81 p. ISBN: 0858830345
This is a brief and tentative sketch of some of the more important features of Police Motu, the lingua franca of Papua. In it we have attempted to represent the actual state of the language as it is spoken widely throughout the territory without...
Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1963. — vi + 81 p. ISBN: 0858830345
This is a brief and tentative sketch of some of the more important features of Police Motu, the lingua franca of Papua. In it we have attempted to represent the actual state of the language as it is spoken widely throughout the territory without...
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