Recent publications from Pacific Linguistics

[Malcolm Ross]

PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of :

Ger Reesink (editor)
Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head

This work is described below.

Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently
equivalent to about US$ 0,56.).

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Ger Reesink (ed.)

Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head

PL 524

This book is the first detailed introduction to languages of the 
Bird's Head peninsula of Indonesia's Irian Jaya (Papua) province. 
Detailed data on these languages have only become available in the 
last decade, and the papers in this volume present some of the 
results of this new research.
The first article sketches out the relationships between the eastern 
Bird's Head languages - both with each other and with other languages 
in the surrounding area. Following the introduction are short 
descriptions of three languages, Mpur (by Cecilia Odé), Meyah (by 
Gilles Gravelle), Sougb and Mansim (both by Ger Reesink). Each of 
these contributions is presented as an independent unit, with 
illustrative text material. The article on Mansim is of particular 
importance. Until Reesink's fieldwork in the region, Mansim was 
thought to be extinct. While the language has few speakers left, it 
is not quite extinct: Ger Reesink was fortunate enough to collect 
some materials from a few of the last remaining speakers.  Mansim is 
closely related to Hatam, a language already described in an earlier 
Pacific Linguistics volume by Reesink.

2002		ISBN 0 85883 494 4	ix + 340 pp
Australia A$84.00	International A$77.00

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Dr Malcolm D. Ross
Senior Fellow
Department of Linguistics
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
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