de Vries, Lourens, Wester, Ruth, and van den Heuvel, Wilco (2012) The Greater Awyu language family of West Papua. Journal of the Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea, 2012 (Special Issue 1). pp. 269-312.

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Abstract

Healey (1970) and Voorhoeve (2001) established the Awyu-Dumut family of Papuan languages in the Digul Basin of West Papua and presented a proto Awyu-Dumut phonology. This paper presents an outline of a proto AwyuDumut morphology and discusses the linguistic position of Korowai and Kombai in relation to the Awyu-Dumut family. It is argued that Korowai is not a member of the Awyu-Dumut family but a member of a sister branch of Awyu-Dumut within a larger genetic group that we call Greater Awyu. Kombai is a member of the Awyu-Dumut family but is not a member of one of the two subgroups, Awyu and Dumut, proposed by Healey (1970). Rather, Kombai is a member of a third subgroup that we call the Ndeiram subgroup of the Awyu-Dumut family.

Item ID:	26227
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	0023-1959
Keywords:	proto morphology, historical linguistics, Greater Awyu, Awyu-Dumut
Date Deposited:	09 Apr 2013 05:27
FoR Codes:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2004 Linguistics > 200407 Lexicography @ 100%
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