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State and society in Papua New Guinea : the first twenty-five years
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ISBN: 1920942068 192094205X 9781920942052 9781920942069 Year: 2004 Publisher: Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press,


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Beiträge zur deutschen Grammatik (Revised Edition)
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ISBN: 3961101493 3961101256 3961101264 Year: 2019 Publisher: Language Science Press

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Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family, which is also known as the Morehead Upper-Maro group. This grammar provides the first comprehensive description of a Yam language. It is based on 16 months of fieldwork. The primary source of data is a text corpus of around 12 hours recorded and transcribed between 2010 and 2015. Komnzo provides many fields of future research, but the most interesting aspect of its structure lies in the verb morphology, to which the two largest chapters of the grammar are dedicated. Komnzo verbs may index up to two arguments showing agreement in person, number and gender. Verbs encode 18 TAM categories, valency, directionality and deictic status. Morphological complexity lies not only in the amount of categories that verbs may express, but also in the way these are encoded.


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Papua-Neuguinea : ein südpazifisches Entwicklungsland auf dem Weg in das Jahr 2000.
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ISBN: 388910066X Year: 1989 Volume: 178 Publisher: Hamburg Institut für Asienkunde

Australian women in Papua New Guinea : colonial passages, 1920-1960
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ISBN: 0511879873 0511518269 0521412854 0521523206 Year: 1992 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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By the time Australia withdrew from Papua New Guinea in 1975, about 10,000 Australian women had lived there at some stage since 1920. Many came with their husbands who were missionaries, plantation owners or government administrators while numerous others came of their own initative working as teachers, medical practitioners, nurses and missionaries. Chilla Bulbeck's book is an evocative and compelling account of the experiences of white women in Papua New Guinea between the 1920s and the 1960s. It is based on oral interviews and the written documentation of nineteen women and is written against a backdrop of official colonial affairs. By exploring the colonial period through the eyes of women, it offers fresh insight into Papua New Guinea history. Many who have personal colonial experiences will empathise with the book and it will be of interest to historians of the Pacific as well as readers in colonial studies and women's studies.


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A sketch grammar of Pondi
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ISBN: 1760463841 1760463833 Year: 2020 Publisher: Acton, Australian Capital Territory : Australian National University Press,

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This book provides the first grammatical description of Pondi, a severely endangered language spoken by fewer than 300 people, almost all of whom live in a single village in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. Pondi is a non-Austronesian (i.e. Papuan) language, belonging to the Ulmapo branch of the Keram family. A Sketch Grammar of Pondi includes ethnographic information, with ample discussion of language vitality and endangerment. The grammatical description begins with phonetics and phonology, before turning to major and minor word classes. The description of nominal morphology focuses especially on Pondi's irregular number affixation and stem alternation, while the description of verbal morphology is largely concerned with aspect and mood suffixation. Syntax is discussed both at the level of the phrase and at the level of the clause. Topics in syntax, such as questions, commands, negation and conditionals are discussed. Following the grammatical description, there is a lexicon of over 600 Pondi words, presented both as a Pondi-to-English word list and as an English-to-Pondi finder list.


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Papua New Guinea : the struggle for development
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ISBN: 8880950517 1134938322 1280139803 0203984544 Year: 1997 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Papua New Guinea is the first book to explore the economic development of this socially complex, rapidly changing nation. Subjects discussed include: * rapid economic growth and political conflict * civil war on the island of Bougainville * population growth and urbanisation * mining: gold, copper and environmental conflicts * uneven development and social divisions.


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Engendering violence in Papua New Guinea
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ISBN: 1921862858 1921862866 9781921862861 9781921862854 Year: 2012 Publisher: Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press,

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This collection builds on previous works on gender violence in the Pacific, but goes beyond some previous approaches to 'domestic violence' or 'violence against women' in analysing the dynamic processes of 'engendering' violence in PNG.


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Protection of intellectual, biological and cultural property in Papua New Guinea
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ISBN: 1922144924 1922144932 9781922144935 9781922144928 Year: 2013 Publisher: Canberra, Australia : ANU E Press,

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This book examines important questions which Papua New Guinea must ask in the development of intellectual property legislation. The chapters are written by specialists in the fields of medicine, law, the environment, music, genetics and traditional cultural knowledge.

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