Lang Adrianne. The semantics of classificatory verbs in Enga (and other Papua New Guinea languages)

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1975. — 246 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 39).Much is now known about the general structural character of Papua New Guinea languages, l although relat ively few of these have been studied and des cribed in any detail. Whatever studies have been made have focused on the phonology, morphology/syntax of particular languages. And of these, the bulk has concentrated on the morphological structure and/or syntactic function of verbs alone, since these are usually very complex linguistic entities which may be said to 'dominate' the languages in which they occur (Capell 1969). This work is a further contribution to verb studies in Papua New Guinea languages. It builds on previous linguistic work and knowledge and attempts to extend this to a new level by taking a detailed look at the semantics of a set of verbs in Enga, a non-Austronesian language of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea.