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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesGeneral Linguistics (Department of Linguistics)

Dr. Edgar Suter

General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne


E-Mail: esut[at]sunrise[dot]ch

Publications

Dissertation

  • Suter, Edgar 2018. Comparative morphology of the Huon Peninsula languages (Papua New Guinea). PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

Articles in magazines

  • Suter, Edgar 2024. Benefactive constructions: A comparative study of the Huon Peninsula languages. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 42. 128-202.
  • Suter, Edgar. 2021. The subject inflections of the Mek languages: a comparative reconstruction” NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia 71. 1-20.
  • Usher, Timothy and Edgar Suter. 2020. .The Asmat-Muli languages of southwestern New Guinea. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 38. 148-175.
  • Suter, Edgar and Timothy Usher. 2017. The Kamula-Elevala language family. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 35. 106-131.
  • Usher, Timothy and Edgar Suter. 2015. The Anim languages of southern New Guinea. Oceanic Linguistics 54(1). 110-142.
  • Suter, Edgar. 2014. Kâte he 'hit' and qa 'hit': a study in lexicology. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 32(1). 18-57.
  • Suter, Edgar. 1997. A comparative look at the dual and plural forms of verb inflections and pronouns in Northeast New Guinea Papuan languages. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 28. 17-68.

Book chapters

  • Suter, Edgar (forthcoming a). “The Huon Peninsula language family” In: Nicholas Evans and Sebastian Fedden (eds.). The Oxford guide to the Papuan languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Suter, Edgar (forthcoming b). “Contact-induced morphological change in Dedua” In: Nicholas Evans and Sebastian Fedden (eds.). The Oxford guide to the Papuan languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
  • Suter, Edgar 2012. “Verbs with pronominal object prefixes in Finisterre-Huon languages” In: Harald Hammarström and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds). History, contact and classification of Papuan languages. [Special Issue 2012 of Language and Linguistics in Melanesia]. 23-58. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.
  • Suter, Edgar 2010. “The optional ergative in Kâte” In: John Bowden, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Malcolm Ross (eds). A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space. Papers in honour of Andrew Pawley. [PL 615]. 423-437. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Suter, Edgar 1991. „Die Richtigkeit der Laute“ In: Walter Bisang und Peter Rinderknecht (Hrsg.). Von Europa bis Ozeanien - von der Antonymie zum Relativsatz. Gedenkschrift für Meinrad Scheller. [Arbeiten des Seminars für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Zürich Nr. 11]. 215-227. Zürich: Universität. 

Papers

  • Suter, Edgar 2014. Das hethitische Phonem /xw/. [Arbeitspapier Nr. 59 (Neue Folge)]. Köln: Institut für Linguistik der Universität zu Köln.

Co-Editor

  • Usher, Timothy and Edgar Suter (ongoing). Newguineaworld. A historical phonological encyclopedia of New Guinean languages. https://sites.google.com/site/newguineaworld/about-newguineaworld
  • Bowden, John, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Malcolm Ross, with the editorial assistance of Edgar Suter (eds) 2010. A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space. Papers in honour of Andrew Pawley. [PL 615]. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
  • Bearth, Thomas, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig, Beat Sottas und Edgar Suter (Hrsg.) 1994. Perspektiven afrikanistischer Forschung / Perspectives de recherches africanistes. Beiträge zur Linguistik, Ethnologie, Geschichte, Philosophie und Literatur. X. Afrikanistentag. Köln: Köppe.