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The boy from Bundaberg: Studies in Melanesian
linguistics in honour of Tom Dutton
Pawley, Andrew, Malcolm Ross and Darrell Tryon
PL 514
Soon after finishing his PhD thesis early
in 1969 Tom Dutton was appointed to a Research Fellowship
at RSPacS. Among the many large areas of New Guinea not covered
by anyone in Professor Stephen Wurm's team was the whole of
southeast Papua, if we extend this term to embrace the three
Provinces (then 'districts'): Central, Miln Bay and Oro (formerly
'Northern') Provinces, which make up the south-eastern section
or 'trail' of the island of New Guinea. Thus it was that Tom
became the ANU team's specialist of southeast Papua. Very
early in his career tom became interested in 'language-contact
phenomena' (which in recent years has become a hot topic in
historical linguistics). Papua New Guinea, with its multitude
of very small language communities, intertwined by trade and
intermarriage, and extensive multilingualism, is an excellent
laboratory of the study of language-contact processes. Tom
has also worked for over 30 years on Koiari and its sister
language, Koita, and has published teaching manuals on both
the main lingua francas of Papua New Guinea, Tok Pisin and
Hiri Motu. This series of essays in honour of Tom Dutton celebrate
his many achievements, both academically as a linguist and
in the many other areas of his life in which Tom excelled.
2001 ISBN 0 85883 445 6
vii + 417 pp.
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