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Idioms

Index of SIL publications on Idioms listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Idioms available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• KENNEDY, Rodney J., author. 1997. Idiom skew.

Works specific to particular countries

Asia

Indonesia

• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1977. "Body image idioms in Irianese and Papua New Guinean languages."

Myanmar

• LAM Thang Khoi, author. 2002. "Conceptual analysis of Tedim Chin ’heart’ idioms."  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• BAROK, Sâcnemac; MCELHANON, Kenneth A., authors. 1975. "Transfer between Selepet and Melanesian Pidgin idioms."
• BRUCE, Kathleen; BRUCE, Leslie P., authors. 2010. "Emotions in the Alamblak lexicon."  
• FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1978. Lexical range, idiom transfer, and related problems in Pidgin English to Kewa translation.
• FRANKLIN, Karl J.; THOMAS, Steven Kambi, authors. 2006. Some Tok Pisin idioms.  
• HEALEY, Alan, author. 1968. "English idioms."  
• LAUCK, Linda M., author. 1981. "Patep idioms."
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1975. "Appreciating the possibilities of Tok Pisin: Evangelism and the use of Tok Pisin idioms."
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1977. "Body image idioms in Irianese and Papua New Guinean languages."
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1978. "On the origin of body image idioms in Tok Pisin."  
• MCELHANON, Kenneth A., author. 1982. "On teaching idioms."
• NOEL, John C., author. 1975. Comparison of some idioms in Kiriwina and English.
• RAY, Michael J., author. 1977. Areas of meaning and idioms.  
• WILSON, Darryl, author. 1990. Idiom discovery procedure.

Solomon Islands

• BOERGER, Brenda H., author. 2009. Trees of Santa Cruz Island and their metaphors.