[PapuanLanguages] Query about sign languages in New Guinea

[Harald Hammarström]

Hatfield (2016:400-404) reports a village sign language among the Mehek.
all the best, H

Hatfield, Adam. (2016) A grammar of Mehek. State University of New York at
Buffalo doctoral dissertation.

Pada tanggal Min, 9 Des 2018 pukul 06.36 Alan Rumsey <Alan.Rumsey at anu.edu.au>
menulis:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Over the past couple years, in collaboration with sign-language specialist
> Lauren Reed, Francesca and I have been studying sign languages in use
> between deaf people and hearing ones in Western Highlands of PNG. A seminar
> presentation on that work with lots of embedded video is available through
> a link at
>
> https://www.academia.edu/37934872/The_communicative_ecology_of_deaf_sign_languages_in_the_Western_Highlands_of_Papua_New_Guinea_A_Powerpoint_seminar_presentation_with_embedded_video
>
> As far as we know, the only publication that has yet appeared on any sign
> language in PNG (or New Guinea more generally) is a 3-part one by Adam
> Kendon on Enga Sign language that was published in Semiotica in 1980. Those
> articles are going to be republished as a book. Lauren and I have agreed to
> write one of two introductory chapters to that book, in which we review
> ‘what is known nowadays about sign language in Papua New Guinea’.  Besides
> our WHP data we will be able to draw on research that Lauren has done over
> the past two months with signers in Port Moresby who come from other parts
> of PNG.  Another person is currently also doing research on a local sign
> language in the Sinasina area of Chimbu Province that we will be able to
> report on.
>
> In addition to all that, we would be very grateful if any of you could
> point us to: 1) publications on sign languages in PNG or elsewhere in
> Melanesia that you may know of; 2) mentions of the existence of local sign
> languages in ethnography or other literature from the region; or 3) use of
> sign language that you may have noticed in the region.
>
> Thanks and best regards,
> Alan
>
>
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