Austronesian undressed : how and why languages become isolating /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Description:	viii, 510 pages : illustrations, maps (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Typological Studies in Language (TSL) ; volume 129 Typological studies in language ; v. 129.
Subject:	Austronesian languages -- Dialects -- History. Austronesian languages -- Morphology. Languages in contact -- Southeast Asia. Linguistic change -- Southeast Asia. Typology (Linguistics) Austronesian languages -- Dialects Languages in contact Linguistic change Typology (Linguistics) Southeast Asia History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12417046

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Other authors / contributors:	Gil, David, editor. Schapper, Antoinette, editor.
ISBN:	9789027207906 9027207909 9789027260536
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: Austronesian undressed. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] 9789027260536
Standard no.:	9789027207906

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Chapternbsp;1. What does it mean to be an isolating language?
4. Chapternbsp;2. The loss of affixation in Cham
5. Chapternbsp;3. Dual heritage
6. Chapternbsp;4. Voice and bare verbs in Colloquial Minangkabau
7. Chapternbsp;5. Javanese undressed
8. Chapternbsp;6. Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual?
9. Chapternbsp;7. From Lamaholot to Alorese
10. Chapternbsp;8. Double agent, double cross?
11. Chapternbsp;9. The origins of isolating word structure in eastern Timor
12. Chapternbsp;10. Becoming Austronesian
13. Chapternbsp;11. Concluding reflections
14. Index

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