The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia

Herausgeber: Adelaar, Alexander; Schapper, Antoinette

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers. It offers a comprehensive account of the historical relations and typological diversity in the group, including current debates in their prehistories and descriptive priorities for future study.

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Produktdetails

• Oxford Guides to the World's Languages
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 1088
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 233mm x 70mm
• Gewicht: 2952g
• ISBN-13: 9780198807353
• ISBN-10: 019880735X
• Artikelnr.: 66715378

Autorenporträt

Alexander Adelaar is Key Researcher in the Sinophon Project at Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic) and Principal Fellow in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities Australia and the Académie Malgache. His research is on the structure and history of Austronesian languages, with emphasis on varieties of Malay and the languages of Borneo, Madagascar, and Taiwan. He is the author of Proto-Malayic (Pacific Linguistics, 1992), and Siraya (a dormant Formosan language; De Gruyter Mouton, 2011) and co-editor of The Austronesian Languages of South East Asia and Madagascar (Routledge, 2005). Antoinette Schapper is Senior Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Researcher at Lacito, CNRS. She is a comparative linguist and writer of grammars specializing in the description and typology of Melanesian languages, particularly within Wallacea. She is currently the principal investigator in the ERC-funded OUTOFPAPUA project looking at the linguistic prehistory of the Bird's Head region of Indonesia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Detailed contents
* Series preface
* Acknowledgements
* Abbreviations and conventions
* The contributors
* 1: Alexander Adelaar and Antoinette Schapper: Introduction
* Part I: Historical Linguistics
* 2: Alexander D. Smith: Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: Its place within the
Austronesian language family, reconstruction, and daughters
* 3: Malcolm Ross and Simon J. Greenhill: Methods in Malayo-Polynesian
comparative-historical linguistics
* 4: Robert Blust: Linguistic approaches to Austronesian culture
history
* 5: François-Xavier Ricaut, Nicolas Brucato, and Murray P. Cox: Human
genetic approaches to Malayo-Polynesian prehistory
* 6: Hsiao-chun Hung and Peter Bellwood: Archaeological correlations
for the dispersal of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast
Asia, western Micronesia and Madagascar
* 7: R. David Zorc, Jason W. Lobel, and William Hall: Historical
linguistics of the Philippines
* 8: Alexander D. Smith: Historical linguistics of Borneo
* 9: Karl Anderbeck: Historical linguistics of the Malayic subgroup
* 10: Alexander Adelaar: Historical linguistics of the languages of
Sumatra, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and Moken Moklen
* 11: Marc Brunelle: Historical linguistics of the Chamic languages
* 12: David Mead: Sulawesi historical linguistics
* 13: Erik Zobel: Historical linguistics of the Central
Malayo-Polynesian languages
* 14: David Kamholz: Historical linguistics of the South Halmahera-West
New Guinea subgroup
* Part II: Sociolinguistics and Language Contact
* 15: Michael C Ewing and Yukinori Kimoto: Vitality, maintenance, and
documentation among the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia
* 16: David Gil: Multilingualism
* 17: Tom Hoogervorst: Language policy and the politics of language
* 18: Peter Slomanson: Malayo-Polynesian contact languages in Southeast
Asia and the creole controversy
* 19: Francesca R Moro and Peter Slomanson: Heritage languages and the
study of Malayo-Polynesian diasporas
* 20: Paul Sidwell: Language contact in Mainland Southeast Asia:
Historical impacts on Malayo-Polynesian languages
* 21: Alexander Adelaar: Language contact in Africa
* 22: Antoinette Schapper: Papuan contact and its impact on
Malayo-Polynesian languages
* 23: Tom Hoogervorst: Non-areal contact
* Part III: Areal Overviews
* 24: Hsiu-chuan Liao and Lawrence A. Reid: Languages of the northern
Philippines
* 25: Daniel Kaufman: Languages of central and southern Philippines
* 26: Daniel Kaufman: Sama-Bajaw languages
* 27: Paul Kroeger: Non-Malayic languages of Borneo
* 28: Bradley McDonnell and Christina L. Truong: Non-Malayic languages
of Sumatra and the Barrier Islands
* 29: Bradley McDonnell, Jiang Wu, Timothy McKinnon, Alexander Adelaar:
Malayic languages
* 30: Marc Brunelle and Joshua Jensen: Chamic languages
* 31: Jozina Vander Klok: Languages of Java
* 32: Asako Shiohara and I Wayan Arka: Balinese, Sasak, and Sumbawa
* 33: René van den Berg and David Mead: Languages of Sulawesi
* 34: Naonori Nagaya: Languages of Flores and its satellites
* 35: Antoinette Schapper and Erik Zobel: Languages of Timor and
southern Maluku
* 36: Charles E. Grimes: Languages of Central Maluku
* 37: Emily Gasser, Laura Arnold, and David Kamholz: The languages of
Halmahera and West New Guinea
* 38: Erik Zobel: Chamorro
* 39: Erik Zobel: Palauan
* 40: Penelope Howe: Malagasy
* Part IV: Featural Overviews
* 41: Juliette Blevins: Segment inventories
* 42: Daniel Kaufman and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann: Suprasegmental
phonology
* 43: Mark Donohue: Phonotactics and morphophonology
* 44: Mark Donohue and David Gil: Morphology
* 45: Veronika Mattes and Thomas Schwaiger: Reduplication
* 46: Mark Donohue: Word order
* 47: Paul Kroeger and Sonja Riesberg: Voice and transitivity
* 48: Antoinette Schapper and William McConvell: Adnominal possession
* 49: Gary Holton and Leah Pappas: Spatial orientation
* 50: Johan van der Auwera, Daniël Van Olmen, and Frens Vossen:
Negation
* 51: Ljuba Veselinova, Leif Asplund, and Jozina Vander Klok: Phasal
polarity
* 52: Alexander Adelaar and John Hajek: Personal pronouns
* References
* Index