Studies in Austronesian LinguisticsRichard McGinn Ohio University Center for International Studies, Center for Southeast Asia[n] Studies, 1988 - Foreign Language Study - 492 pages This volume consists of seventeen articles by scholars including Robert Blust, Paul Hopper, A. L. Becker, Sarah Bell, J. C. Catford, Talmy Givon, J. W. M. Verharr and John U. Wolff. Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Chamorro, Malay, Old Malay, Javanese, Old Javanese, Indonesian, Niasese, Loniu, and Niuean are some of the languages discussed in the study. The essays explore the issues of ergativity in Western Austronesian languages, historical morphology, phonology, phonetics and morphophonemics. Book jacket. |
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Chapter page | 3 |
How Does Meaning Make Sound Change? | 89 |
The PAN Consonant System | 125 |
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accusative active agent analysis antipassive appear Appendix arguments binding Causatives child clause clearly compared considered consonant constructions contain continuity contrast correspond cover definite dialect discourse discussion distinction distribution English ergative evidence examples fact final forms frequency given governed grammatical important indicate Indonesian initial intransitive involving Javanese John Juan languages Linguistics listed lower Malay Maranao marked meaning morpheme morphology Niuean nominal noted nouns object occur Old Javanese passive patient pattern percent person Philippine phonemes position possible preceding prefix present Press problem pronominal pronoun question Raising reconstructed refer reflexes relations relative represented root rule seen semantic sentence sound speakers standard stem stop story structure submorphemic suggest syntactic Table Tagalog Tengger term theory topic transitive University values variants verb voice vowel