The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar write by K. Alexander Adelaar. This book was released on 2005. The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
The Austronesian Languages
The Austronesian Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Austronesian Languages write by R. A. Blust. This book was released on 2009. The Austronesian Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics
Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics write by Raphael Mercado. This book was released on 2010. Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The papers presented within this volume were selected from the fourteenth meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA XIV), held May 4-6, 2007 at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada."
Austronesian Undressed
Austronesian Undressed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Austronesian Undressed write by David Gil. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Austronesian Undressed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 the languages examined in this volume include Cham, Minangkabau, colloquial Malay/Indonesian and Javanese, Lio, Alorese, and Tetun Dili. The main purpose of this volume is to address the general question of how and why languages become isolating, by examination of a number of competing hypotheses. While some view morphological loss as a natural process, others argue that the development of isolating word structure is typically driven by language contact through various mechanisms such as creolization, metatypy, and Sprachbund effects. This volume should be of interest not only to Austronesianists and historians of Insular Southeast Asia, but also to grammarians, typologists, historical linguists, creolists, and specialists in language contact.
Perspectives on Information Structure in Austronesian Languages
Perspectives on Information Structure in Austronesian Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives on Information Structure in Austronesian Languages write by Atsuko Utsumi. This book was released on 2020-10-09. Perspectives on Information Structure in Austronesian Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Information structure is a relatively new field to linguistics and has only recently been studied for smaller and less described languages. This book is the first of its kind that brings together contributions on information structure in Austronesian languages. Current approaches from formal semantics, discourse studies, and intonational phonology are brought together with language specific and cross-linguistic expertise of Austronesian languages. The 13 chapters in this volume cover all subgroups of the large Austronesian family, including Formosan, Central Malayo-Polynesian, South Halmahera-West New Guinea, and Oceanic. The major focus, though, lies on Western Malayo-Polynesian languages. Some chapters investigate two of the largest languages in the region (Tagalog and different varieties of Malay), others study information-structural phenomena in small, underdescribed languages. The three overarching topics that are covered in this book are NP marking and reference tracking devices, syntactic structures and information-structural categories, and the interaction of information structure and prosody. Various data types build the basis for the different studies compiled in this book. Some chapters investigate written texts, such as modern novels (cf. Djenar's chapter on modern, standard Indonesian), or compare different text genres, such as, for example, oral narratives and translations of biblical narratives (cf. De Busser's chapter on Bunun). Most contributions, however, study natural spoken speech and make use of spoken corpora which have been compiled by the authors themselves. The volume comprises a number of different methods and theoretical frameworks. Two chapters make use of the Question Under Discussion approach, developed in formal semantics (cf. the chapters by Latrouite & Riester; Shiohara & Riester). Riesberg et al. apply the recently developed method of Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) to investigate native speakers' perception of prosodic prominences and boundaries in Papuan Malay. Other papers discuss theoretical consequences of their findings. Thus, for example, Himmelmann takes apart the most widespread framework for intonational phonology (ToBI) and argues that the analysis of Indonesian languages requires much simpler assumptions than the ones underlying the standard model. Arka & Sedeng ask the question how fine-grained information structure space should be conceptualized and modelled, e.g. in LFG. Schnell argues that elements that could be analysed as "topic" and "focus" categories, should better be described in terms of 'packaging' and do not necessarily reflect any pragmatic roles in the first place. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
