TY  - BOOK
AU  - Craig A. Volker
PY  - 1998
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Nalik Language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1087444
N2  - 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.
KW  - grammar, descriptions, linguistic ecology
LA  - English
ER  -