History of Study
Bibliography
The works in this bibliography are highlights. They do not exhaust what has been written about the Arapesh languages, but comprise some of the most informative data and analysis.
Alungum, John., Robert J. Conrad, and Joshua Lukas. 1978. Some Muhiang Grammatical Notes. Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages 25: Miscellaneous Papers on Dobu and Arapesh. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Aronoff, Mark. 1992. Noun Classes in Arapesh. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 1991, 21-32. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Conrad, Robert J. 1978. A Survey of the Arapesh Language Family of Papua New Guinea. Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages 25: Miscellaneous Papers on Dobu and Arapesh. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Conrad, Robert J., and Kepas Wogiga. 1991. An Outline of Bukiyip Grammar. Pacific Linguistics C 113.
Dobrin, Lise M. 1998. The Morphosyntactic Reality of Phonological Form. In G. Booij and J. van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 1997, pp. 59-81.
Dobrin, Lise M. 1999. Lexical Splitting in the Kinship Vocabulary of the Buki (Arapesh) Languages. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 28:99-119.
Dobrin, Lise M. 2001. Arapesh. In J. Garry and C. Rubino (eds.), Facts About the World's Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Languages, Past and Present, pp. 33-38. New York: Wilson.
Dobrin, Lise M. 2012. Concreteness in Grammar: The Noun Class Systems of Papua New Guinea Arapesh. Stanford Studies in Morphology and the Lexicon. Stanford: CSLI.
Dobrin, Lise M. 2012. Ethnopoetic Analysis as a Methodological Resource for Endangered Language Linguistics: The Social Production of an Arapesh Text. Anthropological Linguistics 54(1):1-32.
Fortune, Reo F. 1942. Arapesh. Publications of the American Ethnological Society 19. New York: J. J. Augustin.
Fraser, Norman M. and Greville G. Corbett. 1997. Defaults in Arapesh. Lingua 103.11:25-57.
Gerstner, P. Andreas. 1963. Grammatik der Alubänsprache. Micro-Bibliotheca Anthropos 37. Bonn: St. Augustin.
Nekitel, Otto. 1985. Sociolinguistic Aspects of Abu', A Papuan Language of the Sepik Area, Papua New Guinea. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Australian National University.
Nekitel, Otto. 1986. A Sketch of Nominal Concord in Abu' (An Arapesh Language). Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 24, Pacific Linguistics A70.