Most of the languages of Papua New Guinea are still poorly documented. This first grammar of Nalik provides one of the most accessible and detailed descriptions of a New Ireland language, even while English and Tok Pisin are becoming increasingly dominant among the four thousand Nalik speakers. Rejecting the idea of an artificial standard form of the language, this volume is unusual in its description of the grammatical variation caused by such a fluid linguistic ecology.
| ISBN: | 9780820436739 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 1998 |
| Author: | Craig Alan Volker |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 246 pages |
| Series: | Berkeley Models of Grammars |
| Genres: |
Grammar, syntax and morphology Language learning: speaking skills Society and culture: general |