Abstract
The island of New Guinea is still a frontier region for linguistic description. Complete descriptions are extant for only a fraction of the island’s languages, with tantalizing but incomplete studies available for more. These hint at a kaleidoscope of evidentiality systems across the island, concentrated in a band of languages in the Highlands.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality |
| Editors | Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 629-656 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780198759515 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Papuan languages
- language and languages
- Papua New Guinea