Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoli Languages
Title | Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoli Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Nikolaus Himmelmann |
Publisher | Pacific Linguistics |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Celebes (Indonesia) |
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Contains information and word lists for Ampibabo-Lauje, Balaesang, Boano, Buginese, Dampelas, Dondo, Lauje, Pendau, Tajio, Tialo, Taje, Petapa Taje, Tanampedagi Taje, and Totoli languages and/or dialects as spoken in northern Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoli Languages
Title | Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoli Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Nikolaus Himmelmann |
Publisher | Pacific Linguistics |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Celebes (Indonesia) |
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Contains information and word lists for Ampibabo-Lauje, Balaesang, Boano, Buginese, Dampelas, Dondo, Lauje, Pendau, Tajio, Tialo, Taje, Petapa Taje, Tanampedagi Taje, and Totoli languages and/or dialects as spoken in northern Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Endangered Languages of Austronesia
Title | Endangered Languages of Austronesia PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Florey |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199544549 |
This book explores the challenges to linguistic vitality confronting many minority languages in the highly diverse and geographically far-flung Austronesian language family. The contributions bring together Indigenous language activists and academic researchers with a long-standing commitment to language documentation.
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.
Nominalization in Western Austronesian
Title | Nominalization in Western Austronesian PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Bardají |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2024-10-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3111461904 |
This book explores nominalization processes in Totoli (Sulawesi, Indonesia) within the context of western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages. The main focus is on lexical nominalizations, especially on action nominal constructions derived with pV-/pVN-/pVg- and kV-. By means of corpus data, the book provides a characterization of the form and the functions of these constructions and their hybrid nominal and verbal nature. It then investigates the role of nominalization (and subordination) in information packaging using the concept of at-issueness. Finally, it provides a systematic survey of nominalization constructions in 67 western Austronesian symmetrical voice languages.
A Dictionary of Austronesian Monosyllabic Roots (Submorphemes)
Title | A Dictionary of Austronesian Monosyllabic Roots (Submorphemes) PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Blust |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2022-05-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110781697 |
This book documents an understudied phenomenon in Austronesian languages, namely the existence of recurrent submorphemic sound-meaning associations of the general form -CVC. It fills a critical gap in scholarship on these languages by bringing together a large body of data in one place, and by discussing some of the theoretical issues that arise in analyzing this data. Following an introduction which presents the topic, it includes a critical review of the relevant literature over the past century, and discussions of the following: 1. problems in finding the root (the "needle in the haystack" problem), 2. root ambiguity, 3. controls on chance as an interfering factor, 4. unrecognized morphology as a possible factor in duplicating evidence, 5. the shape/structure of the root, 6. referents of roots, 7. the origin of roots, 8. the problem of distinguishing false cognates produced by convergence in root-bearing morphemes from legitimate comparisons resulting from divergent descent, and 9. the problem of explaining how submorphemes are transmitted across generations of speakers independently of the morphemes that host them. The remainder of the book consists of a list of sources for the 197 languages from which data is drawn, followed by the roots with supporting evidence, a short appendix, and references.
The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia
Title | The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Adelaar |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 1089 |
Release | 2024-06-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 019880735X |
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.