There are growing calls for conservation frameworks that, rather than breaking the relations
between people and other parts of nature, capture place-based relationships that have …

Are there any word-meanings which are absolute and precise lexico-semantic universals,
and if so, what kind of meanings are they? This paper assesses the status, in a diverse …

In just the last few years an explosion of discoveries-driven by information from the human
genome-has empowered researchers to address many long-standing questions about the …

The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are
undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book …

Background The human history of Oceania comprises two extremes: the initial colonizations
of Near Oceania, one of the oldest out-of-Africa migrations, and of Remote Oceania, the …

Historical Linguistics-the study of language change-is a major field in linguistics. With its
long history and numerous subfields of its own, Historical Linguistics provides challenges to …

Virtually all aspects of human behavior show enormous variation both within and between
cultural groups, including material culture, social organization and language. Thousands of …

This book is a description of Abui, a Papuan language spoken on Alor Island in eastern
Indonesia. It presents essential parts of Abui grammar in a theoretically neutral way. This …

As an outsider, I would feel very uncomfortable if I were to advocate to a speech community
that it ought to try to keep its language alive. It is entirely up to the community or to …

Komnzo is a Papuan language of Southern New Guinea spoken by around 250 people in
the village of Rouku. Komnzo belongs to the Tonda subgroup of the Yam language family …