Languages of the New Guinea Region

Ross, Malcolm

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“…Estimates of the number of distinct languages in the region vary between 850 and 1200 (Ross 2017): the largest portion of these belong to 'Papuan' lineages that are presumed to descend from the earliest settlers on the island. In contrast, from a material culture and lifeways standpoint the highland region of New Guinea is not notably diverse.…”

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A template for recording material culture, and a comparison of four Oceanic societies

Buckley

2023

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This paper compares the material culture of four societies in the Melanesian region of the Pacific, employing a novel template and analysis, considering both qualitative and quantitative differences. Two of the societies (the Hubula and Wola peoples) are in the highland region of New Guinea, the other two (Kiwai and Admirality) are located on the coastal region of New Guinea and a nearby island group. The results identify a core set of technologies in the highland region that is presumed to be associated with the earliest settlers, as distinct from more recently arrived technologies that are confined to the coastal region and islands. Several hypotheses are proposed concerning links between material culture, environment and history.

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A template for recording material culture, and a comparison of four Oceanic societies

Buckley

2023

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“…This chapter establishes the term 'metatypy' in the contact linguistics literature for situations in which radical restructuring of syntax and lexical semantics takes place in one language on the model of another. Ross, Malcolm. 2017.…”

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Linguistic Melanesia

Schapper¹

2020

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact

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The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia

2024

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The book presents the most wide-ranging treatment of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family. It brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive account of the historical relations, typological diversity, and varied sociolinguistic issues that characterize the languages. It also deals with historical linguistics, including discussion of human genetics, archaeology, and cultural history. The book explores language contact between Malayo-Polynesian and unrelated languages and provides detailed overviews of the different groupings of Malayo-Polynesian languages. It offers in-depth studies of important typological features across the whole linguistic area.

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Languages of the New Guinea Region

Cited by 62 publications

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A template for recording material culture, and a comparison of four Oceanic societies

A template for recording material culture, and a comparison of four Oceanic societies

Linguistic Melanesia

The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia

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