Van den Heuvel Wilco. Aghu: Annotated texts with grammatical introduction and vocabulary lists

Asia-Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University, 2016. — xii + 840 p.The Aghu language is one of the Awyu-Dumut languages, and is spoken in Southwest New Guinea, on the Indonesian half of the island, along the upper part of the 525-kilometer long Digul river.
This book is an adaptation of Drabbe’s 1957 "Spraakkunst van het Aghu-dialect van de Awjutaal", and makes the entire text collection, all lexical material, and the grammatical analysis of Drabbe (1957) available to a wider public. The present book is entirely based on Drabbe (1957), and generally follows Drabbe’s grammatical analysis rather closely. At the same time, the author has added new insights and made a connection with relevant developments in linguistic theory that have taken place since the 1950’s.
By its combination of a richly annotated text collection, a detailed grammatical introduction, wordlists that exhaustively and very clearly present the Aghu lexical data from Drabbe’s original publication, and an accessible index, this book is an invaluable tool for everyone who is interested in the culture or language of this region. Moreover, the text-based description of phenomena like switch reference, tail-head linkage, or clause-chaining make this language description into a valuable source for all linguists interested in the study of these phenomena or in whatever the study of a language may have to offer.