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Title Austronesian undressed : how and why languages become isolating / edited by David Gil, Antoinette Schapper
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Typological studies in language (TSL), 0167-7373 ; volume 129
Typological studies in language ; v. 129.
Contents Introduction / David Gil and Antoinette Schapper -- What does it mean to be an isolating language? The case of Riau Indonesian / David Gil -- The loss of affixation in Cham : contact, internal drift and the limits of linguistic history / Marc Brunelle -- Dual heritage : the story of Riau Indonesian and its relatives / David Gil -- Voice and bare verbs in colloquial Minangkabau / Sophie Crouch -- Javanese undressed : 'peripheral' dialects in typological perspective / Thomas J. Conners -- Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual? / Alexander Elias -- From Lamaholot to Alorese : morphological loss in adult language contact / Marian Klamer -- Double agent, double cross? Or how a suffix changes nature in an isolating language : dór in Tetun Dili / Catharina Williams-van Klinken and John Hajek -- The origins of isolating word structure in eastern Timor / Antoinette Schapper -- Becoming Austronesian : mechanisms of language dispersal across southern Island Southeast Asia and the collapse of Austronesian morphosyntax / Mark Donohue and Tim Denham -- Concluding reflections / John McWhorter
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 29, 2020)
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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Gil, David, editor
Schapper, Antoinette, editor
LC no. 2020032619
ISBN 9789027260536
9027260532