New Guinea must be considered as part of this regional environment also. The factors mentioned above have ensured that questions about language contact and language change are salient to Australian linguists (see Florey and McConvell 2005). The level of interest in such questions led to the ...
part of New Guinea, south of the central mountain ranges, may be regarded as a northern extension of the stable Australian Platform and is therefore not discussed in detail. The Coral Sea Basin, which lies immediately to the south of the Papuan Peninsula, is considered in Volume 7B of this...
The Independent State of Papua New Guinea is a sovereign state in Oceania. The country is spread across the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, while the other half belongs to Indonesia. This island country also comprises some offshore islands and is the third-largest island country in...
Estimating rainforest biomass stocks and carbon loss from deforestation and degradation in Papua New Guinea 1972-2002: Best estimates, uncertainties and re... Reduction of carbon emissions from tropical deforestation and forest degradation is being considered a cost-effective way of mitigating the impact...
“Belt and Road” initiative has had a wide-ranging impact on the economic and social development of many countries. We look forward to other Portuguese-speaking countries, such as Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Guinea-Bissau, East Timor, etc., to expand ...
Four new species of Pyramidellid gastropods, Turbonilla nanseni, T. willasseni, T. halanychi and T. hoeisaeteri are described from the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, based on shell morphology. The descriptions are a part of an ongoing project describing the pyramidellid fauna of the area, ...
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I was away in Papua New Guinea last week when the HYEFU came out, and have only just gotten round to looking at the numbers. Quite possibly, what is in this post will be repeating ground others have covered, and if so the post will end up being mostly for my records (good to be ...
Putting oral narratives into writing: Experiences from a language documentation project in Papua New Guinea. Paper presented at the Linguistics Program seminar - Mosel - 2008 () Citation Context ...are all considered part of the documentation, and the decisions made by speakers in ‘cleaning-up’...
A lack of official identification has long been considered one of the major hurdles preventing many Papua New Guineans from entering the formal economy. “Around 80 per cent of Papua New Guineans lack ID documents and, for individuals, that means they are excluded from fin...