10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRANS-NEW GUINEA PHYLUM»
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Trans-New Guinea phylum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History
The largest grouping is the Trans-New Guinea Phylum, which occupies most of
the New Guinea mainland, and includes 365 languages in Papua New Guinea
and 251 languages in Papua Province. The latter has several languages with
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Pacific East Timor Eastern Trans-Fly Eleman (Trans-New Guinea Phylum?) Fasu
(Trans-New Guinea Phylum?) Geelvik Bay (Cenderawasih Bay) Goilalan (Trans-
New Guinea Phylum?) Guriaso (isolate) Hatam (isolate) Inland Gulf (maybe ...
Lisa Purse, Lyle Campbell, 2013
3
Language Death and Language Maintenance: Theoretical, ...
This gives a total of 460 core Trans-New Guinea Phylum languages. The
remaining twenty-five languages which may be somewhat doubtful members of
the Trans-New Guinea Phylum, are located in fringe areas of it in southwestern
Papua ...
Mark Janse, Sijmen Tol, 2003
4
Approaches to Language: Anthropological Issues
to the east of it, where the Trans-New Guinea phylum languages superimposed
themselves upon unrelated languages brought in earlier by the Sepik-Ramu
phylum migration (see below) or languages of other groups, leaving a marked ...
William C. McCormack, Stephen A. Wurm, 1978
5
Historical and Comparative Linguistics
It does, at the same time, seem very likely that members of several stocks which
can be included in the Trans-New Guinea Phylum, but contain a strong lexical
and structural sub-stratum of non-Trans-New Guinea Phylum elements, constitute
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Perhaps the most ambitious proposal for the interrelationships of Papuan
languages is the Trans-New Guinea Phylum (TNGP), first suggested by
McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970). Proposed membership in the TNGP has
gradually increased ...
7
Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago
About 3000 bc a major expansion of the Trans New Guinea Phylum of languages
took place. This expansion began west of New Guinea, according to Wurm, and
occurred after Austronesians had already arrived in the general region, ...
8
Oceanic Explorations: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement
... who was one of the first linguists to recognise the Trans-New Guinea phylum
as a major grouping of languages, was a strong supporter of the view that Trans-
New Guinea phylum speakers arrived in Timor after Austronesian speakers.
Stuart Bedford, Christophe Sand, Sean P. Connaughton, 2007
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From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics
The Trans New Guinea Phylum hypothesis: A reassessment. In Perspectives on
the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, J. Miedema, C. Ode & R.A.C. Dam (eds.),
655-690. Amsterdam: Rodopi. Rankin, R.L. 2003. The comparative method.
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A Guide to the World's Languages: Classification
Papuan Language Phyla Other Than the Trans-New Guinea Phylum (Wurm 1982
) The TNG phylum itself gradually increased in size until around. TRANS-NEW
GUINEA: I MAIN SECTION: A CENTRAL AND WESTERN: 1 FINISTERRE-HUON
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