Table of Contents

List of maps; Preface; Abbreviations used in glosses; 1. Introduction; 2. Language and its social content; 3. Phonology; 4. Nominals; 5. Verbs; 6. Syntax; 7. Problems of comparative linguistics in Papuan languages; 8. Papuan languages and New Guinea prehistory; References; Language index; Subject index.

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An introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea.