Reconstructing Proto Koiarian: The History of a Papuan Language Family (Studies in Language Change 7, Pacific Linguistics 610) - Softcover

Reconstructing Proto Koiarian: The History of a Papuan Language Family (Studies in Language Change 7, Pacific Linguistics 610)

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 114 pp., bibliography. front cover creased, inside of front cover scuffed. The Koiarian family, part of the putative Trans New Guinea group of Papuan languages, stretches from around Port Moresby on the southern coast of southeast Papua almost to the sea on the north coast at the eastern end of the Hydrographers' Ranges. The author here enlarges on his lexicostatistically based 1969 work and applies the comparative method of historical linguistics to the Koiarian languages, identifying shared innovations that define subgroups within the family and reconstructing the protophonology and about 120 lexical items of Proto Koiarian. He provides similar reconstructions for Proto Koiaric and Proto Bariaic, the languages ancestral to the two major subgroups within Koiarian. Artikel-Nr. 0858836092EVANS102815

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