The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar - Volume 1: The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 1 - Sketch Grammars: Volume 1

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 of related "Papuan outliers," which until recently were largely undocumented. This book provides an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the unique and diverse grammars of the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages.

About the author

Antoinette Schapper, University of Cologne, Germany.

Report

"Crucially, the volume gives a much-needed new balance to the overall study of Papuan languages."Lourens de Vries in: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunden 171/2015

Product details

• Assisted by: Antoinett Schapper (Editor), Antoinette Schapper (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2014
• EAN: 9781614517238
• ISBN: 978-1-61451-723-8
• No. of pages: 509
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 237 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 861 g
• Sets: The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar; The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar
• Series: Pacific Linguistics; Pacific Linguistics [Pl]; Pacific Linguistics; Pacific Linguistics [PL]; ISSN; The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar; Pacific Linguistics [PL], 644
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies