A Grammar of Yélî Dnye: The Papuan Language of Rossel Island

by Stephen C. Levinson

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This is a comprehensive description of a language spoken some 450 km offshore from the mainland of Papua New Guinea. The language is remarkable for its phonological, morphological and syntactic complexity. As the sole surviving member of its language family, and with little historical contact with surrounding languages, the language provides evidence of the kind of languages spoken in this part of the world before the Austronesian expansion.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:3111358666

ISBN13:9783111358666

Release Date:October 2023

Publisher:Walter de Gruyter

Length:617 Pages

Weight:1.88 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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