Otto Dempwolff's Grammar of the Jabem Language in New Guinea

by Otto Dempwolff

Otto Dempwolff is far better known for his historical and comparative work than for his descriptive and theoretical contributions to linguistics. However, the work to which he devoted his last efforts before he died in 1938 was a grammatical description of Jab m, an Austronesian language adopted and spread as a church and school lingua franca by the German Lutheran mission in what is now Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

Although Jab m...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824829328
• ISBN13: 9780824829322
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 131 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"