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William A. Foley
William A. Foley
is an
American linguist
and
professor
at
the University of Sydney
. He specialises in
Papuan
and
Austronesian languages
.
In 1986, Foley published
The
Papuan Languages
of
New Guinea
through
Cambridge University Press
. In 1991, his
book
The
Yimas Language
of New Guinea
was published by
Stanford University Press
. He developed
Role and Reference Grammar
in a partnership with
Robert Van Valin
.
Works
William A. Foley and Robert D.
Van Valin
, Jr.
Functional
syntax
and
universal grammar
.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University
Press.
William A. Foley.
The Papuan Languages of New Guinea
. Cambridge:
Cambridge
University Press
..
William A. Foley.
The Yimas Language of New Guinea
. Stanford:
Stanford University
Press.
William A. Foley.
Anthropological Linguistics: an introduction
. Oxford:
Basil Blackwell
.
William A. Foley. "Linguistic prehistory in the Sepik -
Ramu
basin
." In:
Andrew Pawley
, Robert Attenborough, Robin Hide and
Jack Golson
,
eds
,
Papuan pasts: cultural,
linguistic
and
biological
histories of Papuan-speaking peoples
, 109–144. Canberra:
Pacific Linguistics
.
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