{"id":3518,"date":"2006-12-19T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T09:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/12\/click-here-new-grammar-of-a-papuan-language\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:05","slug":"click-here-new-grammar-of-a-papuan-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/12\/click-here-new-grammar-of-a-papuan-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Click here &#8211; new grammar of a Papuan language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hil\u00e1rio de Sousa&#8217; s <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2123\/1341\">doctoral thesis<\/a> is now available in the University of Sydney thesis repository.  It&#8217;s a grammar of <em>Menggwa Dla<\/em>, an endangered Papuan language of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/14\/show_family.asp?subid=543\">Senagi<\/a> family spoken in Papua New Guinea and West Irian.   The language has complex cross-referencing and is undergoing an amazing change in how switch reference works &#8211; you can also read his <a href=\"http:\/\/au.geocities.com\/austlingsoc\/proceedings\/als2005\/desousa-switch.pdf \">ALS article<\/a> (PDF) on it.  Four texts are also included in the thesis.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s another ripper of a thesis &#8211; click and add it to your reference grammar collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hil\u00e1rio de Sousa&#8217; s doctoral thesis is now available in the University of Sydney thesis repository. It&#8217;s a grammar of Menggwa Dla, an endangered Papuan language of the Senagi family spoken in Papua New Guinea and West Irian. The language has complex cross-referencing and is undergoing an amazing change in how switch reference works &#8211; &#8230; <a title=\"Click here &#8211; new grammar of a Papuan language\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/12\/click-here-new-grammar-of-a-papuan-language\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Click here &#8211; new grammar of a Papuan language\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-png-linguistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}