Austronesian undressed how and why languages become isolating
"Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2020]
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| Series: | Typological studies in language,
volume 129 |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / David Gil and Antoinette Schapper
- What does it mean to be an isolating language? The case of Riau Indonesian / David Gil
- The loss of affixation in Cham : contact, internal drift and the limits of linguistic history / Marc Brunelle
- Dual heritage : the story of Riau Indonesian and its relatives / David Gil
- Voice and bare verbs in colloquial Minangkabau / Sophie Crouch
- Javanese undressed : 'peripheral' dialects in typological perspective / Thomas J. Conners
- Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual? / Alexander Elias
- From Lamaholot to Alorese : morphological loss in adult language contact / Marian Klamer
- Double agent, double cross? Or how a suffix changes nature in an isolating language : dór in Tetun Dili / Catharina Williams-van Klinken and John Hajek
- The origins of isolating word structure in eastern Timor / Antoinette Schapper
- Becoming Austronesian : mechanisms of language dispersal across southern Island Southeast Asia and the collapse of Austronesian morphosyntax / Mark Donohue and Tim Denham
- Concluding reflections / John McWhorter.