https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ 2026-04-14T18:25:24+00:00 https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/ https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/about-newguineaworld/contact-us?rev=1719337266&do=diff Contact us The owner and editor of this website may be reached at <timothyusher@gmail.com> . text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/about-newguineaworld/dataset-history?rev=1719337266&do=diff Dataset history Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute This is a brief description of the history and conventions of the historical versions of my lexical dataset, from my late 1990s v.1 dataset, to Usher and Whitehouse (2006) as quoted in LinguistList's LEGO project and Utilika's PanLex, and the Newguineaworld dataset which supersedes both, followed by a vision for its future direction. text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/about-newguineaworld/editorial?rev=1719337266&do=diff Editorial Founding Editor: Timothy Usher Co-Editor: Edgar Suter Advisory Board: René van den Berg (SIL International) William Croft (University of New Mexico) Matthew Dryer (University at Buffalo) Sebastian Fedden (University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle and LaCiTO) text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/about-newguineaworld/funding?rev=1719337266&do=diff Funding Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute This journey into linguistic prehistory has been made possible by: Jim Mason, former director of Long Now's Rosetta Project and current director of AllPowerLabs. The Santa Fe Institute's Evolution of Human Languages program and its director Murray Gell-Mann. text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/about-newguineaworld/nomenclature?rev=1719337266&do=diff Nomenclature Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute Some of the terminology used on Newguineaworld to designate language families differs from that used in previous taxonomic literature, even where no substantial changes to the received classification have been proposed. This page explains why these differences exist and the rules and principles by which our femily names are generated: text/html 2024-06-25T17:41:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://newguineaworld.linguistik.uzh.ch/about-newguineaworld/start?rev=1719337266&do=diff About Newguineaworld Timothy Usher and Edgar Suter Newguineaworld is a historical phonological encyclopedia of New Guinean languages. It presents cognate sets and the sound correspondences derived from them. The purpose of this website is to classify the language families of New Guinea, the most linguistically diverse region in the world, through a process of stepwise reconstruction using the traditional comparative method. In support of this goal, we aim to develop and present a full-spect…