Year: 2009
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: 2 While Greenberg's diligence in tracking down data was extraordinary, I doubt if he could have obtained 350 items for as many as 800 non-Austronesian languages in the 1950s and 1960s.There are probably fewer than 800 distinct Papuan languages in all, and for perhaps 200 of these there was almost no documentation during that period.However, Greenberg sometimes had wordlists for multiple dialects of single languages.
Author: Andrew Pawley
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2211425266