Stephen Wurm
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stephen Adolphe Wurm was a Hungarian-born Australian linguist. Early life Wurm was born in Budapest, the second child to the German-speaking Adolphe Wurm and the Hungarian-speaking Anna Novroczky. He was christened Istvan Adolphe Wurm. His father died before Stephen was born.
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- Atlas of languages of intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas (1996) (178)
- Language atlas of the Pacific area (1981) (165)
- Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing (2001) (117)
- Papuan Languages of Oceania (1981) (99)
- Language Death and Disappearance: Causes and Circumstances (1991) (84)
- Papuan languages and the new guinea linguistic scene (1979) (69)
- FOCAL I + II : papers from the fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (1986) (59)
- Languages of Australia and Tasmania (1972) (55)
- Language atlas of China (1988) (51)
- Second International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics : proceedings (1978) (50)
- Pacific linguistic studies in honour of Arthur Capell (1970) (47)
- Linguistic prehistory in the New Guinea area (1983) (35)
- A world of language : papers presented to Professor S.A. Wurm on his 65th birthday (1987) (24)
- THE QUESTION OF LANGUAGE AND DIALECT IN NEW GUINEA (1961) (23)
- English finderlist of reconstructions in Austronesian languages (post-Brandstetter) (1979) (23)
- THE CHANGING LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF NEW GUINEA (1960) (22)
- Obtaining an Index of Phonological Differentiation from the Construction of Non-Existent Minimax Systems (1963) (22)
- Handbook of Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin) (1987) (22)
- Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Vol. 4: Thematic variation (1982) (20)
- The language situation and language endangerment in the Greater Pacific area (2003) (18)
- Papers in New Guinea linguistics (1964) (18)
- Linguistics and the prehistory of the South‐Western pacific (1967) (17)
- Language and society : anthropological issues (1979) (17)
- The Papuan Linguistic Situation (1971) (17)
- New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 2, Austronesian languages (1976) (15)
- Linguistics and Adjacent Arts and Sciences (1977) (15)
- Language and Man: Anthropological Issues (1976) (14)
- Precolonial patterns of intercultural communication in the Pacific Islands (1996) (12)
- The Wutun language (1996) (12)
- New Guinea Languages (1961) (12)
- New Guinea area languages and language study, Vol. 3, Language, culture, society, and the modern world (1977) (12)
- Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Vol. 3: Accent on variety (1982) (11)
- Australasia and the Pacific (2007) (11)
- Australian linguistic studies (1981) (11)
- Basic materials in Wankumara (Galali) : grammar, sentences and vocabulary (1982) (11)
- New Guinea highlands pidgin: course materials (1971) (10)
- Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics : Vol 2: Tracking the travellers (1982) (10)
- The linguistic situation in North Central New South Wales in Papers in Australian linguistics, N 13. (1980) (10)
- New Guinea and neighboring areas : a sociolinguistic laboratory (1980) (9)
- Language and Thought: Anthropological Issues (1977) (9)
- Approaches to language : anthropological issues (1978) (8)
- Some contact languages and pidgin and creole languages in the Siberian region (1992) (8)
- Language, culture, society, and the modern world (1977) (8)
- The Duunidjawu language of southeast Queensland : grammar, texts and vocabulary (2004) (8)
- English Finderlist of Reconstructions in Austronesian Languages The Case System of Tagalog VerbsBinongan Itneg Sentences (1979) (7)
- The Classification of Papuan Languages and Its Problems. (1972) (7)
- The Emerging Linguistic Picture and Linguistic Prehistory of the Southwestern Pacific (1978) (7)
- Lexical Reconstruction: The Case of the Proto-Athapaskan Kinship System (1977) (7)
- Handbook of Tok Pisin (New Guinea pidgin), Languages For Intercultural Communication In The Pacific Area Project of The Australian Academy of The Humanities, Publication No. 1 (1985) (6)
- Papers in Pidgin and Creole Linguistics No. 4 (1983) (6)
- Classifications Of Australian Languages, Including Tasmanian (1971) (6)
- Semantics and world view in languages of the Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon Islands (1987) (6)
- Some remarks on the role of language in the assimilation of Australian aborigines (1963) (5)
- Language maps of the highlands provinces, Papua New Guinea (1978) (5)
- Papers in linguistics of Melanesia (1968) (5)
- Materials on languages in danger of disappearing in the Asia-Pacific region No. 1: some endangered languages of Papua New Guinea: Kaki Ae, Musom, and Aribwatsa (1997) (5)
- Prospects of Language Preservation in the North (1997) (5)
- Oceanic Linguistics at the Tenth Pacific Science Congress Held in Honolulu from August 21 to September 6, 1961 (1962) (5)
- Post-contact pidgins, creoles and lingue franche, based on non-European and indigenous languages (1996) (5)
- Studies in the Kiwai languages, Fly Delta, Papua, New Guinea (1951) (5)
- Linguistic fieldwork methods in Australia (1969) (5)
- Recent comparative and typological studies in Papuan languages in Australian New Guinea (1965) (5)
- West Coast of Canada (1996) (5)
- Attitudes towards New Guinea Pidgin and English (1979) (5)
- LINGUISTIC RESEARCH IN AUSTRALIA, NEW GUINEA, AND OCEANIA (1972) (4)
- Language Atlas of the Pacific (1985) (4)
- The Language Situation in the New Guinea Area (1979) (4)
- Police Motu : an introduction to the trade language of Papua (New Guinea) for anthropologists and other fieldworkers (1965) (4)
- The Status of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) and Attitudes Towards It (1985) (4)
- Registers in New Guinea Pidgin (1982) (4)
- The Taimyr Peninsula Russian-based pidgin (1996) (4)
- The Silk Road and Hybridized Languages in North-Western China (1995) (4)
- LANGUAGE POLICY, LANGUAGE ENGINEERING AND LITERACY IN NEW GUINEA AND AUSTRALIA (1974) (3)
- Remarks on a Case of Language Decay and Revival (1986) (3)
- Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 14 (1971) (3)
- Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 21 (1981) (3)
- Some lingue franche and pidgins in North Siberian and North Pacific areas at the beginning of the 20th century (1996) (3)
- Chapter 16. Threatened Languages in the Western Pacific Area from Taiwan to, and Including, Papua New Guinea (2008) (3)
- Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic (1982) (3)
- P. Drabbe's study on the languages of South-West New Guinea (1954) (3)
- PIDGINS, CREOLES, AND LINGUE FRANCHE (1971) (3)
- Endangered Languages, Multilingualism and Linguistics (1999) (3)
- Current Trends in Linguistics, VIII: Linguistics in Oceania (1978) (2)
- The question of aboriginal place names (1960) (2)
- Preliminary thoughts on Chinese and Chinese contact languages in the Pacific area (1996) (2)
- Language contact and special lexical developments (1985) (2)
- North China: Intercultural communication involving indigenous languages other than Chinese (1996) (2)
- Small languages and small language communities 29: Language revivalism and revitalization in Pacific and Asian areas (1999) (2)
- Le don des langues (1994) (2)
- From verb serialisation to noun classification (1986) (2)
- Contact languages and the preservation of endangered languages (2001) (2)
- Metropolitan Language (Spanish, including Creoles) (1996) (1)
- Shugni as a lingua franca in the Parnir area (1996) (1)
- Languages : eastern, western and southern highlands territory of Papua & New Guinea (1959) (1)
- South-East Asia (Continental) (1996) (1)
- Phonological diversification in Australian New Guinea Highlands languages (1964) (1)
- History of of eskimo Interethnic Contact and its Linguistic Consequences (1996) (1)
- Papers in Australian linguistics No. 4 (1969) (1)
- Papers in linguistics of Melanesia No. 2 (1969) (1)
- Pitch and Intensity Recording Devices for the Study of Australasian Languages (1967) (1)
- Language Planning and New Guinea Pidgin (1979) (1)
- Major languages of wider communication and Trade Languages of the Philippines (1996) (1)
- Papers in Linguistics of Melanesia No. 3 (1972) (1)
- Contact languages and language influences in Mongolia (1996) (1)
- United States Area (1996) (1)
- Notes on attitudes to pronunciation in the New Guinea area (1984) (0)
- South-East Asia (Insular, including Irian Jaya) (1996) (0)
- Metropolitan Language (Russian) (also applies to Siberia) (1996) (0)
- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 3 (1996) (0)
- Multilingualism and practical applied intelligence (2003) (0)
- Modern Media in the Pacific Area (1996) (0)
- Languages for intercultural communication in the Pacific area project of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1985) (0)
- Metropolitan Language (Portuguese, including Creoles) (1996) (0)
- DEVELOPMENTS IN PAPUAN GENETIC LINGUISTICS UNTIL 1972 (1978) (0)
- General Editor's Preface (1978) (0)
- The Role of New Guinea Pidgin (TOK PISIN) in the Changing Culture of Papua New Guinea (1985) (0)
- Pidgin English in the Pacific Area (1984) (0)
- ON A REVIEW OF S. A. WURM: LANGUAGES OF AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA (1976) (0)
- Metropolitan Language (English) (1996) (0)
- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 4 (1996) (0)
- The First Congress for Tok Pisin in 1973 (1993) (0)
- Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska (1996) (0)
- Change of Languages as a Result of Decay and Change of Culture (1987) (0)
- Melanesia (Papua New Guinea) (1996) (0)
- Semaphoric communication, western Aleuts (1996) (0)
- Change of Languages as a Result of Decay and Change of Culture (1987) (0)
- CHECKLIST OF OCEANIC LANGUAGE AND DIALECT NAMES (1971) (0)
- 16. The Spelling of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) (1977) (0)
- Arctic North America East and Arctic North America west (1996) (0)
- Languages used in the Domain of Religion in Insular Southeast Asia and Oceania (1996) (0)
- Intercommunication between speakers of minor languages in the Philippines (1996) (0)
- "Influence of English and other Metropolitan Languages in the Pacific Area: Languages for Intercultural Communication in the Pacific" (1984) (0)
- Spreading of languages in the South-Western Pacific (1975) (0)
- Arabic-based and other Contact Languages on Maritime Trade Routes to China (1996) (0)
- Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 26 (1988) (0)
- Language endangerment and death in the central and southwestern Pacific, with notes on the western (1998) (0)
- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 6 (1996) (0)
- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 2 (1996) (0)
- Recent developments in Australian linguistics (1965) (0)
- Metropolitan Language (Dutch and German, including Pidgins) (1996) (0)
- Some remarks on present-day intercultural communication in South Korea (1996) (0)
- Musom, an endangered language in northeastern Papua New Guinea (1997) (0)
- Back Matter (1963) (0)
- Papers in Australian linguistics No. 10 (1976) (0)
- Metropolitan Language (Japanese, including Pidgins) (1996) (0)
- Linguistic society of Australia (1968) (0)
- Pacific Pidgin Englishes (1991) (0)
- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 5 (1996) (0)
- Subject finder list to the text volume. Part 1 (1996) (0)
- Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 2 (1964) (0)
- Book Reviews (2006) (0)
- Languages of intercommunication in Mexico (1996) (0)
- Metropolitan Language (French, including Creoles) (1996) (0)
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