Bugenhagen R.D. A Grammar of Mangap-Mbula: An Austronesian Language of Papua New Guinea

Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1995. — xiv + 451 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 101). — ISBN: 085883426XThe aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive and rigorous synchronic description of grammatical structures and their meanings in Mangap-Mbula, an Austronesian language spoken by some 2,500 people in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. Occasional reference is also made to diachronic matters when these touch upon or help to explain synchronic patterns.