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From René van den Berg - "The Busoa language of Southeast Sulawesi: Grammar sketch, texts, vocabulary" a grammar of Busoa, an Austronesian language of Sulawesi (SIL International ® 2020) (access PDF download here)

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Tibeto-Burman: A selection of resources from various authors collated and presented by Pema Wangdi (and other contributors)

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A descriptive grammar of Bunan (Manuel Widmer Sumiswald / BE)

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Sepik: A selection of resources from various authors compiled by Prof Alexandra (Sasha) Aikhenvald

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JCU Library - recent purchases 01/06/2020 (on line or available in print when they become available)

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An updated version of Prof Alexandra (Sasha) Aikhenvald's bibliography on classifiers (OBO< OUP), which has appeared online (the previous version has been obliterated).

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Amerikanistisches Woerterbuch  (Georg Friederici) This is a unique compendium of thousands of words introduced into European languages (especially German, English, and Spanish) from the indigenous languages of the Americas, accompanied with etymologies, scientific identifications (for flora and fauna) and references to the original sources.

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A Grammar of Dumi (A Dissertation by NETRA MANI RAI - 2016) - This study presents a linguistic description of the Dumi language (639-3; dus) within the framework of the functional-typological grammar (FTG) developed by Givón (2001) and further supplemented by Dixon (2004), Dryer (2006), Haspelmath (2004) and De Lancey (2010). Dumi is a poorly described Kirati language of the Rai group, spoken by an ethnic group 'Dumi' residing mainly in Khotang District. This is a field-based linguistic study of the grammatical features of the Dumi language. It employs naturally occurring texts, supported by elicited sentences collected from the Dumi speaking areas basically from the Makpa area.

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GENDERS AND CLASSIFIERS: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY. By Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Elena I. Mihas. Explorations in Linguistic Typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xxi + 316. A review of our Genders and classifiers by Chia-jung  published in IJAL.

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Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 2016. How gender shapes the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 320p. ISBN: 9780198723752.  A reviewed by Chia-Jung Pan, Center for Language Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, PR China; and James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, E-mail: chiajung.pan216@gmail.com

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