The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with
This volume provides the first comprehensive description of Bilinarra, a Pama-Nyungan language of the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory (Australia). Bilinarra is a highly endangered la
This massive treatment of the Owa language, which is based primarily in the Solomon Islands, includes a grammar sketch, a phonology, noun phrases, verbs, verb phrases, clause structure, sentences, and
This linguistics study of the Aboriginal Australian language Mawng draws on materials and recordings produced through the Warruwi School bilingual Mawng-English program (1973-1996). The study examines
Verstraete and Rigsby describe Yintyingka, a Pama-Nyungan language of central and eastern Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland, Australia. They draw on archival sources recorded by anthropologists
Unua is one of two distinct dialects of Unua-Pangkumu spoken in two separate communities located on the south east cost of Malakula Island in the South Pacific Ocean. Pearce collected data in the Unua
This book is an in-depth study of the voice systems of Totoli, Balinese, Indonesian, and Tagalog, which shows that the symmetrical nature of these systems poses a problem to current linking theories.
This volume provides descriptive sketches of the Papuan languages scattered over the islands of Timor, Alor, and Pantar at the western perimeter of Melanesia. Timor-Alor-Pantar languages are a group o
Meyer describes and discusses evidence for poetic organization within a corpus of texts corresponding to an early date of recitation in the Tahitian language. His findings might serve as a stylistic b
Fieldwork for this study began in 1981-82, at which time Tauya (of the Madang family) was the language of daily life for the 400 people living in the Ramu River valley in Papua New Guinea. Children an
