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Journal articles on the topic "Trans New Guinea Phylum"
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McWilliam, Andrew. "Austronesians in linguistic disguise: Fataluku cultural fusion in East Timor." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 38, no. 2 (May 25, 2007): 355–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463407000082.
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AbstractThis paper explores the relationship between language and cultural practice in the Fataluku language community of East Timor. A Papuan language and member of what is referred to as the Trans New Guinea Phylum (TNGP) of languages, Fataluku society nevertheless exhibits many cultural ideas and practices suggesting a long period of engagement and accommodation to Austronesian cosmopolitanism. The idea that Fataluku speakers are ‘Austronesians in disguise’ points to the significance of cultural hybridity on the Austronesian boundary.
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Suroto, Hari. "BUDAYA AUSTRONESIA Dl KAWASAN DANAU SENTANI (Austroneslan Culture In the Sentani Lake Area)." Jurnal Penelitian Arkeologi Papua dan Papua Barat 8, no. 2 (July 31, 2017): 121–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24832/papua.v8i2.182.
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Pottery artifacts distribution and language show that Austroneslan speakers mostly settle, do activity, and interact with indigenous Papua In the coastal. Sentani Lake area is located in north part of Papua, in which Sentani language belongs to the non-Austronesian (phylum Trans New Guinea). This study is aimed to reveal the influence of Austroneslan culture in Sentani Lake area through descriptive and qualitative methods. The data is gathered by conducting surface survey, environmental observation, and ethnoarchaeological approach. The influence of Austroneslan culture in Sentani Lake area is brought through the coastal communities in Vanimo, Altape, and East Sepik Papua New Guinea. Artifacts as the evidences showing the influence of Austroneslan culture am in the form of pottery, glass bracelet, glass beads, and bronze artifacts. It is also shown through a pottery making tradition, tattoo, alcoholic drink, leadership system, and the breeding of dog, pig, and chicken. AbstrakPersebaran artefak gerabah dan bahasa menunjukan penutur Austronesia lebih banyak bermukim, beraktivitas, dan berinteraksi dengan penduduk asli Papua di pesisir. Kawasan Danau Sentani terletak di pesisir utara Papua, bahasa Sentani tergoiong dalam bahasa non-Austronesia (phylum Trans New Guinea). Tuiisan ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh budaya Austronesia di Kawasan Danau Sentani. Tulisan ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Metode pengumpuian data dilakukan dengan survei permukaan tanah serta pengamatan lingkungan, serta perdekatan etnoarkeologi. Pengaruh budaya Austronesia di Kawasan Danau Sentani melaiui masyarakat pesisir di Vanimo, Aitape, dan Sepik Timur Papua Nugini. Aftefek yang menjadi bukti pengaruh budaya Austronesia yaitu gerabah, geiang kaca, manik-manik kaca, artefak pemnggu, Pengaruh iainnya yaitu tradlsi pembuatan gerabah, tradlsi tato, pembuatan minuman beralkohol, sistem kepemimpinan serta pemeiiharaan anjing, babi dan ayam.
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Miyata, Ryo, Mikina Matsui, and Shigenori Kumazawa. "Component Analysis of Propolis from Papua New Guinea." HAYATI Journal of Biosciences 29, no. 4 (April 19, 2022): 526–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4308/hjb.29.4.526-530.
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Propolis is an aggregate of functional components found in plant resins and has been reported to exhibit valuable biological activities. This study investigated the components and antioxidant activity of propolis from Papua New Guinea. In component analysis, seven known compounds, 6-deoxyhaplopinol (1), 5-formylguaiacol (2), trans-caffeic acid (3), cis-caffeic acid (4), trans-ferulic acid (5), trans-p-coumaric acid (6), and L-kaempferitrin (7), were isolated and identified from Papua New Guinean propolis. The structure of 1 was confirmed by comparing the 13C NMR chemical shifts of the isolated and synthesized compounds. Based on component analysis, Papua New Guinean propolis may be a new type of propolis. The EtOH extracts of Papua New Guinean propolis exhibited antioxidant activity comparable to that of Baccharis and Populus propolis. This study demonstrated the potential of Papua New Guinean propolis in human health maintenance.
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Jell-Bahlsen, Sabine, and Georg Jell. "The trans-national gold curse of Papua New Guinea." Dialectical Anthropology 36, no. 3-4 (November 16, 2012): 317–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-012-9280-z.
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Oliver, Paul M., Eric N. Rittmeyer, Janne Torkkola, Stephen C. Donnellan, Chris Dahl, and Stephen J. Richards. "Multiple trans-Torres Strait colonisations by tree frogs in the Litoria caerulea group, with the description of a new species from New Guinea." Australian Journal of Zoology 68, no. 1 (2020): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo20071.
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Australia and New Guinea (together referred to as Sahul) were linked by land for much of the late Tertiary and share many biotic elements. However, New Guinea is dominated by rainforest, and northern Australia by savannah. Resolving patterns of biotic interchange between these two regions is critical to understanding the expansion and contraction of both habitat types. The green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) has a vast range across northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea. An assessment of mitochondrial and morphological diversity in this nominal taxon in New Guinea reveals two taxa. True Litoria caerulea occurs in disjunct savannahs of the Trans-Fly, Central Province and across northern Australia, with very low genetic divergence, implying late Pleistocene connectivity. A previously unrecognised taxon is endemic to New Guinea and widespread in lowland swampy rainforest. Date estimates for the divergence of the new species suggest Pliocene connectivity across lowland tropical habitats of northern Australia and New Guinea. In contrast, the new species shows shallow phylogeographic structuring across the central mountains of New Guinea, implying recent dispersal between the northern and southern lowlands. These results emphasise that the extent and connectivity of lowland rainforest and savannah environments across northern Australia and southern New Guinea have undergone profound shifts since the late Pliocene. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A577A415-0B71-4663-B4C1-7271B97298CD
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Mona, S., M. Tommaseo-Ponzetta, S. Brauer, H. Sudoyo, S. Marzuki, and M. Kayser. "Patterns of Y-Chromosome Diversity Intersect with the Trans-New Guinea Hypothesis." Molecular Biology and Evolution 24, no. 11 (August 16, 2007): 2546–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msm187.
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Riesberg, Sonja. "Optional ergative, agentivity and discourse prominence – Evidence from Yali (Trans-New Guinea)." Linguistic Typology 22, no. 1 (April 25, 2018): 17–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2018-0002.
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Abstract A phenomenon often termed “optional ergative marking” is found in a number of genetically unrelated languages. Yali, a Trans-New Guinea language spoken in West Papua, shows striking similarities to optional ergative systems as described in the literature. This paper focuses on the relation between agentivity and discourse prominence, and argues in favour of a systematic distinction between semantic and syntactic contexts as conditioning factors for optional ergative marking. It further provides new evidence for the close interplay of ergative marking and what has been termed “discourse prominence” in descriptions of some other languages and shows that in Yali, optional ergative marking operates on both the global and the local level of discourse.
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Surbakti, Suriani, Michael Balke, and Lars Hendrich. "Discovery of the Australian diving beetle Neobidessodes mjobergi (Zimmermann, 1922) in New Guinea (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)." Check List 17, no. 2 (April 7, 2021): 633–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/17.2.633.
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The diving beetle genus Neobidessodes Hendrich & Balke, 2009 contains 10 species. Nine of them were considered endemic to Australia, one of them to the Trans Fly Savanna and Grasslands Ecoregion of New Guinea island. Here, we provide the first report of one of the Australian species, Neobidessodes mjobergi (Zimmermann, 1922), from the same region of New Guinea. We suggest that more focused research will reveal the occurrence of far more Australian diving beetle species in that region of New Guinea.
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Luna, Amanda, Francisco Rocha, and Catalina Perales-Raya. "A review of cephalopods (Phylum: Mollusca) of the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (Central-East Atlantic, African coast)." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 101, no. 1 (January 25, 2021): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315420001356.
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AbstractAn extensive review of cephalopod fauna in the Central and North Atlantic coast of Africa was performed based on material collected during 10 research cruises in these waters. In the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME) area, a total of 378,377 cephalopod specimens was collected from 1247 bottom trawl stations. Of those specimens, 300 were sampled for subsequent identification in the laboratory and found to belong to 65 different species and 23 families. After an exhaustive review of the existing literature on the cephalopods and new data obtained from the surveys, an updated checklist of 138 species was generated for the CCLME area. Our knowledge of the known geographic distribution ranges of several species has been expanded: Muusoctopus januarii has been sighted from Guinea–Bissau waters, passing through Western Sahara, to Morocco waters for the first time; Lepidoteuthis grimaldii and Octopus salutii have been sighted off Morocco waters for the first time; Austrorossia mastigophora, Abralia (Heterabralia) siedleckyi, Abralia (Pygmabralia) redfieldi and Sepiola atlantica have been cited off Western Sahara waters for the first time; Magnoteuthis magna, Abralia (Asteroteuthis) veranyi and Octopoteuthis megaptera have been sighted off Moroccan and Western Sahara waters for the first time; Ancistroteuthis lichtensteinii, Opisthoteuthis grimaldii, Onykia robsoni, Muusoctopus levis and Bathypolypus valdiviae have been cited in the Guinea–Bissau coast for the first time; the northern geographic limit of Bathypolypus ergasticus has been expanded to Morocco, Western Sahara and Mauritania and southward to Guinea–Bissau waters. The presence of Muusoctopus johnsonianus in Senegalese waters has been reported for the first time. A Chtenopteryx sicula specimen was reported in Western Sahara waters. A specimen belonging to the poorly known Cirrothauma murrayi species was found in South Moroccan waters. Amphitretus pelagicus, a probably cosmopolitan species, has been reported in the Western Sahara and Guinea–Bissau waters. Some species that were previously recorded in the area, Sepia angulata, Sepia hieronis, Heteroteuthis dagamensis, Helicocranchia joubini and Tremoctopus gelatus, were removed from the final checklist and considered to be not present in the CCLME area. Cycloteuthis akimushkini was substituted with Cycloteuthis sirventi, its senior synonym, in the final checklist. Similarly, Mastigoteuthis flammea and Mastigoteuthis grimaldii were substituted with Mastigoteuthis agassizii.
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Nose, Masahiko. "Negation during communication in Amele." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32, no. 1 (August 4, 2022): 25–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.00083.nos.
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Abstract The Amele language of Papua New Guinea is one of many Trans-New Guinea languages spoken in Papua New Guinea. Amele has a negator ‘qee’ (‘q’ represents a voiced dorso-labiovelar plosive), which follows the element negated. Yet, while having verb conjugations for persons and numbers, Amele has no negative conjugation in the present tense. Typologically, some other languages, for example, Finnish, also exhibit negative conjugations of verbs, but these behaviors of the negations differ in interesting ways. This contrastive study investigates the negation of grammars in Amele (Papua New Guinea) and Finnish (Finland, Uralic), by comparing negative particles and negative verb conjugations in both of these languages, while clarifying their morphological behaviors. As such, the study describes Amele’s and Finnish’s positive-negative and present/past distinctions through their verbal morphologies and through their functional markedness in past tenses, ultimately observing these functional points in the languages.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Trans New Guinea Phylum"
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Burung, Willem. "A grammar of Wano." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:86a8eef7-4a10-420d-b445-400a0b2b974f.
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This thesis is a descriptive analysis of Wano, a Trans-New Guinea language found in West Papua which is spoken by approximately 7,000 native speakers. The thesis includes: (i) an introduction of Wano topography and demography; a brief ethnographic sketch; some sociolinguistic issues such as name taboo, counting system and kinship terms; and typological profile of the language in chapter 1; (ii) morphophonological properties in chapter 2; (iii) forms and functions of nouns in chapter 3; (iv) verbs in chapter 4; (v) deixis in chapter 5; (vi) clause elements in chapter 6; and (vii) intransitive/transitive non-verbal predication in chapter 7; (viii) clause combination is consecutively observed in terms of coordination and subordination in chapter 8; serial verb constructions in chapter 9; clause linking in chapter 10; and bridging linkage in chapter 11. Chapter 12 sums-up the overall thesis. Wano has 11 consonantal and 5 vocalic phonemes expressed through their allophonic variations, consonantal assimilation and vocalic diphthongs. The only fricative phoneme attested is bilabial fricative /Î2/. There are two open and two closed syllable patterns where all consonants are syllable-onset, while approximants can also be syllable-coda. Vowels are syllable-nucleus. Stress is syllable-final which will be penultimate in cliticization. The phonology-morphology interface provides a significant contribution to the shaping of conjugational verbs, which, in turn, plays an essential role to an understanding of Wano verbal system where distinction between roots, stems, citation forms, sequential forms and tense-aspect-mood is defined. Wano is a polysynthetic language that displays an agglutinative-fusional morphology. Although the alienable-inalienable noun distinction is essentially simple in its morphology, the sex-distinction of the possessor between kin terms allows room for semantic-pragmatic complexity in the interpretation of their various uses. Wano has four non-verbal predications, consists of experiential event, nominal, adjectival, and deictic predicates. Wano is a verb-final language that allows pronominal pro-drop and has no rigid word order for arguments. A clause may consist only of (i) a single verb, (ii) a single inalienable noun, (iii) a serial verb construction, (iv) a combination of an inalienable noun with a verb, and or (v) a combination of an inalienable noun with a serial verb construction. To maintain discourse coherency, Wano makes use of tail-head linkage construction. The thesis consists of: pre-sections (i-xxxiii), contents (1-478), bibliography (479-498), and appendices (499-594) that include verb paradigms, noun paradigms, some oral texts and dialectal wordlist.
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Yarapea, Apoi Mason. "Morphosyntax of Kewapi." Phd thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/13226.
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1bis thesis describes the morphosyntax of Kewapi dialect of Kewa, a language of the
West-Central (Engan) Family of the Trans New Guinea Phylum.
Chapter I introduces the language, providing some basic information about
dialect variation and about the geographic, demographic and sociocultural setting. It
concludes with an outline of previous studies of Kewa and of the aim and scope of
the present study.
In chapter 2 some aspects of the phonology of Kewapi are outlined to
accompany the grammatical descriptions in chapters 3 to 8. Consonant and vowel
phonemes are presented. Suprasegmental elements of stress and tone as described by
the Franklins (1962, 1978) are briefly reviewed. Phonemic and orthographic
conventions proposed by Karl Franklin (1992) are adopted for the present study.
The main task of chapter 3 is to sketch the morphosyntactic character of
Kewapi. It presents an overview of the basic clause structure, deals with headmarking
and dependent-marking morphosyntax, establishes word classes and
distinguishes words, clitics and affixes.
Chapter 4 provides a detailed description of Kewapi clause level grammar.
The grammatical relations subject, object and oblique are defined. Four grammatical
mood clause types - declarative, imperative, subjunctive and interrogative - are
distinguished. A morphophonemic account is given for the occurrence of two sets of
subject-tense suffixes in declarative clauses. Verbs are classified according to their
transitivity features. The chapter concludes with a description of predicate types:
serial predicates, be predicates (or predicate nominal/adjectives) verb-less and realis
predicates.
Chapter 5 presents fairly detailed description of descriptive, possessive and
adverbial noun phrases, followed by a brief account of the formation of noun-noun,
verb-noun and noun-adjective compounds and of categories of noun. The chapter
concludes with a description of the types and grammatical functions of
nominalisations.
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Chapter 6 focuses on the structure of verbs and verb phrases in independent
declarative and imperative clauses. Verbal categories of negation, causation,
direction, split-action, aspect, tense, subject, evidence and speech act are identified
and systematised. Finally the chapter describes 'auxiliary verb phrases'.
Subordinate clauses - those that function as noun phrases (complement
clauses), those which function as modifiers of nouns (relative clauses), and those
which function as modifiers of verb phrases and clauses (adverbial subordinate
clauses)- are dealt with in chapter 7. Complement clauses are predominantly object
complement clauses. Relative clauses are predominantly prenominal relative clauses.
Kewapi has five reason subordinators that are in complementary distribution. There
are five semantic types of conditional clauses: Real, Unreal (hypothetical and
counterfactual), Predictive and Concessive. The chapter concludes with a discussion
of non-finite subordinate clauses, namely purpose and desiderative subordinate types.
The fmal chapter describes types of coordinate construction. Kewapi has
coordinate independent and coordinate dependent constructions. The latter has two
subtypes: (a) those that are not marked by verbal suffixes and (b) those that are
marked by verbal suffixes, namely, same subject (SS) and different subject (DS)
suffixes. The description of interclausal reference in Franklin (1971, 1983) and
Y arapea (200 1) is reviewed. It is argued that in Kewapi a true switch-reference
construction is one in which the coordinate dependent verb carries a subject suffix
(which functions as a switch-reference marker) and is temporally or aspectually
linked to a final clause.
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Priestley, Carol. "A grammar of Koromu (Kesawai) : a trans New Guinea language of Papua New Guinea." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150382.
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Loughnane, R. "A grammar of Oksapmin." 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/4788.
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This thesis describes the features of the phonology, morphology and syntax of Oksapmin, a Papuan (Non-Austronesian) language of Papua New Guinea. Oksapmin is spoken by around 8000 people, most of whom reside in the Tekin valley in Sandaun Province. The analysis in this thesis is based on the study of data from both elicitation and text collection undertaken on two field trips between 2004 and 2006: from May to October 2004, and from October 2005 to January 2006.A general introduction is provided in Chapter 1, phonology, phonotactics and morphophonology are discussed in Chapter 2, word classes in Chapter 3, demonstratives in Chapter 4, nouns in Chapter 5, postpositions in Chapter 6, noun phrase syntax in Chapter 7, verbs in Chapter 8, coverbs in Chapter 9, clausal syntax in Chapter 10, phrasal clitics in Chapter 11, and clause combining in Chapter 12. Four sample texts are provided as appendices. Sound files are provided on the accompanying CD for many of the examples scattered throughout the thesis, as well as for all the texts in the appendices.
The most interesting and important grammatical subsystem in Oksapmin is the evidential one, which permeates various areas of the grammar. Without proper knowledge of this system, one cannot make a single grammatical sentence in the language. Recall that evidentiality is, roughly speaking, when a speaker marks how he or she came about the knowledge on which a given utterance is based. Evidentiality in Oksapmin is indicated with past tense verbal inflection, with enclitics, and with a number of other constructions. The evidential system is typologically unusual in that the primary contrast it marks is participatory/factual versus visual/sensory evidence; this distinction is made in the verbal inflection. Participatory/factual evidentials are not widely attested cross-linguistically, and those systems that do exist have been largely ignored in the typological literature.
Some of the other areas of grammar discussed in this thesis include prenasalised consonants with nasal allophones, noun phrases with a complex syntactic structure, a range of demonstratives which distinguish for elevation, a large vocabulary of kin terms including a set of dyadic kin terms, extensive use of complex predicates consisting of a light verb plus a coverb, and a variety of clause combining strategies including clause chaining.
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Windschuttel, Glenn Alan. "Object verbs: link from Timor-Alor-Pantar to Trans-New-Guinea: an exploration of their typological and historical implications." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1404460.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)The languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar (TAP) are notable for their object agreement prefixes. Previously, this has been highlighted because this exists largely without subject agreement (a rare pattern crosslinguistically; Klamer 2014, Siewierska 2011) and the proliferation of different prefix series and the semantics they express (Fedden et al 2014, 2013, Kratochvíl 2011, inter alia). One particular feature has not raised much comment, despite its rarity and difficulties it raises for syntactic theory (Chumakina & Bond 2016): object agreement is only obligatory for a lexical class of transitive verbs. This is particularly unfortunate since classes defined in the same way are a feature of many Trans-New-Guinea (TNG) languages, the prefixing class labelled object verbs, even being reconstructed to the protolanguage (Suter 2012). They exist in a number of non-contiguous groups of families: Dani; Ok and Anim; Kainantu-Goroka and Finisterre-Huon. These languages have dealt with this uninflectability in different ways, through support verbs, that resemble auxiliaries, or free object pronouns. What they all share are cognate agreement prefixes based on the TNG pronominals (see Suter 2012 cf: Ross 2005). The TAP languages also look to have object verbs defined by prefixes that may well be derived from these same pronominals. This connection between the TNG and TAP is especially significant since the pattern is crosslinguistically rare. This implies that it is unlikely to have been caused by chance. This provides important extra evidence of TNG-TAP interconnectedness. Moreover, it is a serious question whether these lexical verb classes would likely be diffused and apply to the whole transitive verbal lexicon of TAP (conjugation classes are not likely to be recombinantly borrowed; Panov 2015, Koutsoukos 2016, or even Robbeets 2015, 2017). This may leave inheritance as the most probable explanation for why object verbs are found in both TAP and TNG. This would then add to the growing evidence for the TNG descent of TAP.
Books on the topic "Trans New Guinea Phylum"
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Norrgård, Stefan. A new climatic periodisation of the Gold and Guinea coasts in West Africa, 1750-1798: A reconstruction of the climate during the slave trade era, including an analysis of the climatically facilitated trans-Atlantic slave trade. Åbo, Finland: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2013.
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Wälchli, Bernhard. The rise of gender in Nalca (Mek, Tanah Papua). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795438.003.0004.
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This chapter reconstructs how Nalca, a Mek language of the Trans-New Guinea phylum, has acquired gender markers and describes the non-canonical properties of this highly unusual gender system. Gender in Nalca is mainly assigned by two different defaults, phonological assignment is holistic, there is a gender switch depending on the syntax of the noun phrase, controller and target are adjacent, and gender has the function of case marker hosts. Gender in Nalca is only weakly entrenched in the lexicon and predominantly phrasal. It is argued that canonical gender is an attractor (a complex, diachronically stable structure with heterogeneous origins). A model of the gender attractor based on the notion of information transfer chain is developed. The rise of Nalca gender is an instance of system emergence where several diachronic processes, such as grammaticalization, reanalysis, and analogy, interact. Chains of rapid diachronic change are triggered by anomalies that entail other anomalies.
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Foley, William. Polysynthesis in New Guinea. Edited by Michael Fortescue, Marianne Mithun, and Nicholas Evans. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199683208.013.20.
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The New Guinea region is linguistically the most complex on earth: as many languages as in the Americas are spoken there. The typological diversity of Papuan languages is also great, though underestimated because of a tendency to survey data from languages of the Trans New Guinea family, the largest and most widespread. Its languages have provided a misleading picture of a ‘typical’ Papuan language, including the typological category of polysynthesis. Due to the generally low to moderately agglutinating structure of Trans New Guinea languages, the degree and range of polysynthesis in New Guinea has been under-recognized. By taking four parameters, head marking, verbal pronominal agreement affixes (polypersonalism), incorporation, and clause linkage by parataxis as diagnostic of polysynthesis, this chapter explores its range and degree across several Papuan language families. It argues that polysynthesis is a cluster of features a language can have to a greater or lesser degree.
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Pawley, Andrew. Linguistic Evidence as a Window into the Prehistory of Oceania. Edited by Ethan E. Cochrane and Terry L. Hunt. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199925070.013.006.
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Historical linguistics is a key witness in reconstructing the prehistory of Oceania. The extraordinary number of Papuan (non-Austronesian) language families in Near Oceania is consistent with archaeological evidence that this region was settled over 40,000 years ago. One family, Trans New Guinea, is exceptional in its wide distribution, suggesting that its expansion was underpinned by technological advances. Most Austronesian languages of Oceania fall into a single branch of the family, Oceanic, indicating that they stem from a bottleneck in the Austronesian expansion into the southwest Pacific, associated with the formation of Proto Oceanic (POc). The final stages of this formative period almost certainly took place in the Bismarck Archipelago and the subsequent rapid dispersal of Oceanic languages across the southwest Pacific can be connected with the region's colonization by bearers of the Lapita archaeological culture. The reconstructed lexicon of POc provides information about early Lapita material culture and social organization.
Book chapters on the topic "Trans New Guinea Phylum"
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Schapper, Antoinette. "Chapter 7. Farming and the Trans-New Guinea family." In Language Dispersal Beyond Farming, 155–81. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/z.215.07sch.
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Rumsey, Allan, Lila San Roque, and Bambi B. Schieffelin. "The acquisition of ergative marking in Kaluli, Ku Waru and Duna (Trans New Guinea)." In Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 133–82. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tilar.9.06rum.
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Pawley, A. "Trans New Guinea Languages." In Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 17–21. Elsevier, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b0-08-044854-2/04845-8.
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"2. The Trans New Guinea family." In The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area, 21–196. De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110295252-002.
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"Trade with the Aru Islands and Trans Fly Coast of New Guinea." In Plumes from Paradise, 154–75. Sydney University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10vkzrf.14.
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Klamer, Marian, Mily Crevels, and Pieter Muysken. "Patterns of dispersal and diversification in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania." In Language Dispersal, Diversification, and Contact, 103–15. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198723813.003.0006.
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This chapter presents some background considerations relevant to the patterns of language dispersal and diversification in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania. First an overview of languages and language families is given, including three large families—the widely dispersed Austronesian family, the Trans New Guinea (TNG) family in New Guinea, and the Pama-Nyungan family in Australia—as well as many smaller families and isolates. Then the main distinctive typological features of Austronesian languages, New Guinea and Australia are presented. Australia shows surprising structural homogeneity when compared to New Guinea and even to Austronesian. Subsequent sections cover the history of the study of the languages in the region, the history of the region itself, and issues for further research, including the mechanisms in the spread of Austronesian and the language development of New Guinea. The chapter concludes with a brief summary of the chapters in the book regarding the region.
Conference papers on the topic "Trans New Guinea Phylum"
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Nose, Masahiko. "A Morphological Analysis of Negation in Amele, Papua New Guinea." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.6-1.
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Amele is one of the Trans-New Guinea languages spoken in Papua New Guinea. Foley (2000) described that the Trans-New Guinea languages have complicated verbal morphology, including Amele. This study examines negation in Amele, and attempts to clarify its morphological behaviors.