Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 1. Language families of the New Guinea Area -- 2. The Trans New Guinea family -- 3. The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs -- 4. The languages of Northwest New Guinea -- 5. The Papuan languages of East Nusantara and the Bird's Head -- 6. The languages of Southern New Guinea -- 7. The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia -- 8. The morphosyntactic typology of Papuan languages -- 9. Contact phenomena in Austronesian and Papuan languages -- General Index -- Index of Languages and Language Groupings