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  1. Gender Vocalism in the South Bird’s Head Languages in Comparative Perspective

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, February 2026, Project Muse

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  2. The Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua

    Article • August 2020, De Gruyter

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  3. Comparatives in Melanesia: Concentric circles of convergence

    Article • Linguistic Typology, October 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  4. Newton Goes East: Natural Philosophy in the First Malay Grammar (1736) and the First Malay Bible (1733)

    Article • The Bible Translator, August 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  5. The linguist as a demon and as a human

    Article • February 2018, John Benjamins

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  6. Iang Evangelivm Ul-Kadus Menjurat kapada Marcum

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 2018, Brill

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  7. A grammar of Nungon: A Papuan language of northeast New Guinea by Hannah S. Sarvasy

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2018, Project Muse

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  8. Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua in Typological Perspective

    Article • March 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  9. The Book of True Civilization: The Origins of the Bible Society Movement in the Age of Enlightenment

    Article • The Bible Translator, December 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  10. Views of orality and the translation of the Bible

    Article • Translation Studies, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  11. The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar. Volume 1, written by Antoinette Schapper (ed.)

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 2015, Brill

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  12. Chapter 13. Numerals in Papuan languages of the Greater Awyu family

    Article • January 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  13. Alexander Adelaar, Siraya. Retrieving the Phonology, Grammar and Lexicon of a Dormant Formosan Language. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011, xvi + 413 pp. [Trends in Linguistics: Documentation 30]. ISBN 9783110252958. Price: EUR 129.95 (hardback).

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 2014, Brill

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  14. Speaking of clans: language in Awyu-Ndumut communities of Indonesian West Papua

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Language, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  15. From clause conjoining to clause chaining in Dumut languages of New Guinea

    Article • Studies in Language, August 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  16. Hill, Harriet S. 2006. The Bible at Cultural Crossroads: From Translation to Communication

    Article • Target International Journal of Translation Studies, July 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  17. Some remarks on the use of Bible translations as parallel texts in linguistic research

    Article • Language Typology and Universals, July 2007, De Gruyter

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  18. Areal pragmatics of New Guinea: Thematization, distribution and recapitulative linkage in Papuan narratives

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, June 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  19. Towards a typology of tail–head linkage in Papuan languages

    Article • Studies in Language, August 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  20. René van Woudenberg, Filosofie van taal en tekst. Budel 2002: Damon. 176 pagina’s. ISBN 9055732508.

    Article • Philosophia Reformata, December 2003, Brill

    Professor Lourens de Vries

  21. Demonstratives, referent identification and topicality in Wambon and some other Papuan languages

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Lourens de Vries