Speaking the map

Christian Döhler

Speaking the map: Komnzo texts

Christian Döhler

Synopsis

This collection of fourteen texts in Komnzo offers an insight into the language and culture of the Farem people, their storytelling tradition, oral history, mythology and everyday life. It contains stories from nine narrators, which were transcribed, translated and analysed by the researcher with the help of the Komnzo language committee. All texts are presented in a parallel text version arranged in columns (Komnzo/English) and in an interlinearised and glossed version. The book focuses thematically on landscape, place names and locality. It includes a description and analysis of the way Komnzo speakers conceptualise this semantic domain.

This publication is complemented by a dataset available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14267762

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Author Biography

Christian Döhler

Christian Döhler is employed at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research focuses on languages spoken in Southern New Guinea, where he is involved in the documentation and description of Komnzo, Idi and Bine. He has worked and published on a wide range of topics, including verb morphology, alignment, toponymy, language contact, multilingualism, historical linguistics and anthropological linguistics.