The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Adelaar, K Alexander; Himmelmann, Nikolaus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Some 800 Austronesian languages are spoken in the area extending from Madagascar to eastern Indonesia and to the north to Taiwan and the Philippines. They vary greatly in almost every possible respect, including the size and social make-up of the speech communities and their typological profiles. This book is designed to serve as a reference work a

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 864
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136755095
• Artikelnr.: 38274739

Autorenporträt

Alexander Adelaar is Associate Professor and Reader in Indonesian at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His main publications are on Austronesian historical and descriptive linguistics, especially Malay varieties, Malagasy, languages of West Borneo and Siraya (Taiwan). Nikolaus P. Himmelmann was previously Professor and Chair at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Germany. He has done fieldwork in the Philippines (Tagalog), Sulawesi (Tomini-Tolitoli languages) and East Timor (Waima'a) and published widely on a number of core issues in Austronesian grammar, including the nature of lexical and syntactic categories and voice.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar: A historical perspective
K. Alexander Adelaar 2. Language shift and endangerment
Margaret Florey 3. Colonial history and language policy in Insular Southeast Asia and Madagascar
Hein Steinhauer 4. Ritual languages, special registers and speech decorum in Austronesian languages
James J. Fox 5. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar: Typological characteristics
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann 6. Old Malay
Waruno Mahdi 7. Structural Diversity in the Malayic subgroup
K. Alexander Adelaar 8. Colloquial Indonesian
Michael C. Ewing 9. Tsou
Elizabeth Zeitoun 10. Seediq
Naomi Tsukida 11. IIoko
Carl Rubino 12. Tagalog
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann 13. Sama (Bajau)
Jun Akamine 14. Kimaragang
Paul Kroeger 15. Belait
Adrian Clynes 16. Malagasy
Janie Rasoloson & Carl Rubino 17. Phan Rang Cham
Graham Thurgood 18. Moken and Moklen
Michael D. Larish 19. Karo Batak
Geoff Woollams 20. Nias
Lea Brown 21. Javanese
Alexander K. Ogloblin 22. Buol
Erik Zobel 23. Makassar
Anthony Jukes 24. Mori Bawah
David Mead 25. Kambera
Marian Klamer 26. Tetun and Leti
Aone van Engelenhoven & Catharina Williams
van Klinken 27. Taba
John Bowden 28. Biak
Hein Steinhauer