Huon Gulf

To-day we begin with the Bukaua, a kindred and neighbouring tribe, which occupies the coast lands of the northern portion of Huon Gulf from

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

From a point some miles to the north of Finsch Harbour as far as Samoa Harbour on Huon Gulf the coast is inhabited by two kindred tribes, the Yabim and the Bukaua, who speak a

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Most of them live not on the mainland but in a group of islands in Huon Gulf, to the south-east of Yabim.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Possession eastward, [310] and tribes speaking a Melanesian language are also settled about Finsch Harbour and Huon Gulf in German New

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

Some say that the ghosts go eastward to Bukaua on Huon Gulf and there lead a shadowy life very like their life on earth.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897

This stage is attested in the VO languages around the Huon Gulf.

Far Outliers 2009

There are no classificatory prefixes in Huon Gulf languages, but there are main verbs that play roles similar to those of the prefixes.

Far Outliers 2009

Distributional evidence within the Austronesian language family suggests that the VO, serializing languages around the Huon Gulf are more conservative of ancestral word order than the OV languages elsewhere around the New Guinea mainland.

Far Outliers 2009

The Huon Gulf languages already provide evidence for an SVOV pattern in which the first verb indicates a causing action and the second a result.

Far Outliers 2009

And there are result verbs or resultative particles in Huon Gulf languages whose semantics resemble those of the verbs occurring with classificatory prefixes in the verb-final languages elsewhere on the northeast coast of New Guinea.

Far Outliers 2009