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Title: The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

by Craig A. Volker (Author)
©1998 Others XVI, 250 Pages
Linguistics
Series: Berkeley Models of Grammars, Volume 4

Summary

Most of the languages of Papua New Guinea are still poorly documented. This first grammar of Nalik provides one of the most accessible and detailed descriptions of a New Ireland language, even while English and Tok Pisin are becoming increasingly dominant among the four thousand Nalik speakers. Rejecting the idea of an artificial «standard» form of the language, this volume is unusual in its description of the grammatical variation caused by such a fluid linguistic ecology.

Details

Pages
XVI, 250
Publication Year
1998
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820436739
Language
English
Keywords
grammar descriptions linguistic ecology
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., Paris, Wien, 1998. XVI, 250 pp., 33 fig., 2 maps
Product Safety
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Biographical notes

Craig A. Volker (Author)

The Author: Craig Volker is Associate Professor in the School of Languages at the Gifu University for Education and Languages in Japan. He studied at the East-West Center and received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Hawai'i. He has written a number of articles on the pidgin and Austronesian languages of Papua New Guinea and has edited translations into Nalik and Tok Pisin.

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Title: The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea