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Kopar is a moribund, close to extinct, language spoken in three villages at the mouth of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. This work provides a detailed description of the language. It also discusses where rapid language shift has affected the structure of the language. Kopar is richly polysynthetic, with split ergativity based on mood, over which is laid a direct-inverse system based on a person hierarchy.

Kopar is a very moribund, close to extinct, language spoken in three villages at the mouth of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea. This is the only description of the language available. It also discusses areas where rapid language shift is affecting the structure of Kopar. Although the period of fieldwork was necessarily short, this book provides as comprehensive a description as possible of the grammatical structure of this complex and fasci...

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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various ma...

An introduction to the descriptive and historical linguistics of the Papuan languages of New Guinea.