Austronesian and Other Languages of the Pacific and South-East Asia
Title | Austronesian and Other Languages of the Pacific and South-East Asia PDF eBook |
Author | William George Coppell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
The Austronesian Languages
Title | The Austronesian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | R. A. Blust |
Publisher | Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu |
Pages | 856 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
The Major Languages of East and South-East Asia
Title | The Major Languages of East and South-East Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Comrie |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2022-02-16 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1136898034 |
Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.
The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
Title | The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar PDF eBook |
Author | K. Alexander Adelaar |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 866 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0700712860 |
An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
The Austronesians
Title | The Austronesians PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Bellwood |
Publisher | ANU E Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2006-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1920942858 |
The Austronesian-speaking population of the world are estimated to number more than 270 million people, living in a broad swathe around half the globe, from Madagascar to Easter Island and from Taiwan to New Zealand. The seventeen papers in this volume provide a general survey of these diverse populations focusing on their common origins and historical transformations. The papers examine current ideas on the linguistics, prehistory, anthropology and recorded history of the Austronesians.
Collected Papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages
Title | Collected Papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Robert S. Bauer |
Publisher | Pacific Linguistics |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Asia, Southeastern |
ISBN |
Pacific Languages
Title | Pacific Languages PDF eBook |
Author | John Lynch |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1998-03-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780824818982 |
Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no single book that attempts a wide regional coverage for a general audience. Pacific Languages introduces readers to the grammatical features of Oceanic, Papuan, and Australian languages as well as to the semantic structures of these languages. For readers without a formal linguistic background, a brief introduction to descriptive linguistics is provided. In addition to describing the structure of Pacific languages, this volume places them in their historical and geographical context, discusses the linguistic evidence for the settlement of the Pacific, and speculates on the reason for the region's many languages. It devotes considerable attention to the effects of contact between speakers of different languages and to the development of pidgin and creole languages in the Pacific. Throughout, technical language is kept to a minimum without oversimplifying the concepts or the issues involved. A glossary of technical terms, maps, and diagrams help identify a language geographically or genetically; reading lists and a language index guide the researcher interested in a particular language or group to other sources of information. Here at last is a clear and straightforward overview of Pacific languages for linguists and anyone interested in the history of sociology of the Pacific.