Full Description
This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family. It brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive account of the historical relations, typological diversity, and varied sociolinguistic issues that characterize this group of languages, including current debates in their prehistories and descriptive priorities for future study.
The book is divided into four parts. Part I deals with historical linguistics, including discussion of human genetics, archaeology, and cultural history. Chapters in Part II explore language contact between Malayo-Polynesian and unrelated languages, as well as sociolinguistic issues such as multilingualism, language policy, and language endangerment. Part III provides detailed overviews of the different groupings of Malayo-Polynesian languages, while Part IV offers in-depth studies of important typological features across the whole linguistic area. The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in Austronesian languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
Contents
Detailed contents
Series preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and conventions
The contributors
1: Alexander Adelaar and Antoinette Schapper: Introduction
Part I: Historical Linguistics
2: Alexander D. Smith: Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: Its place within the Austronesian language family, reconstruction, and daughters
3: Malcolm Ross and Simon J. Greenhill: Methods in Malayo-Polynesian comparative-historical linguistics
4: Robert Blust: Linguistic approaches to Austronesian culture history
5: François-Xavier Ricaut, Nicolas Brucato, and Murray P. Cox: Human genetic approaches to Malayo-Polynesian prehistory
6: Hsiao-chun Hung and Peter Bellwood: Archaeological correlations for the dispersal of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia, western Micronesia and Madagascar
7: R. David Zorc, Jason W. Lobel, and William Hall: Historical linguistics of the Philippines
8: Alexander D. Smith: Historical linguistics of Borneo
9: Karl Anderbeck: Historical linguistics of the Malayic subgroup
10: Alexander Adelaar: Historical linguistics of the languages of Sumatra, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and Moken Moklen
11: Marc Brunelle: Historical linguistics of the Chamic languages
12: David Mead: Sulawesi historical linguistics
13: Erik Zobel: Historical linguistics of the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages
14: David Kamholz: Historical linguistics of the South Halmahera-West New Guinea subgroup
Part II: Sociolinguistics and Language Contact
15: Michael C Ewing and Yukinori Kimoto: Vitality, maintenance, and documentation among the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia
16: David Gil: Multilingualism
17: Tom Hoogervorst: Language policy and the politics of language
18: Peter Slomanson: Malayo-Polynesian contact languages in Southeast Asia and the creole controversy
19: Francesca R Moro and Peter Slomanson: Heritage languages and the study of Malayo-Polynesian diasporas
20: Paul Sidwell: Language contact in Mainland Southeast Asia: Historical impacts on Malayo-Polynesian languages
21: Alexander Adelaar: Language contact in Africa
22: Antoinette Schapper: Papuan contact and its impact on Malayo-Polynesian languages
23: Tom Hoogervorst: Non-areal contact
Part III: Areal Overviews
24: Hsiu-chuan Liao and Lawrence A. Reid: Languages of the northern Philippines
25: Daniel Kaufman: Languages of central and southern Philippines
26: Daniel Kaufman: Sama-Bajaw languages
27: Paul Kroeger: Non-Malayic languages of Borneo
28: Bradley McDonnell and Christina L. Truong: Non-Malayic languages of Sumatra and the Barrier Islands
29: Bradley McDonnell, Jiang Wu, Timothy McKinnon, Alexander Adelaar: Malayic languages
30: Marc Brunelle and Joshua Jensen: Chamic languages
31: Jozina Vander Klok: Languages of Java
32: Asako Shiohara and I Wayan Arka: Balinese, Sasak, and Sumbawa
33: René van den Berg and David Mead: Languages of Sulawesi
34: Naonori Nagaya: Languages of Flores and its satellites
35: Antoinette Schapper and Erik Zobel: Languages of Timor and southern Maluku
36: Charles E. Grimes: Languages of Central Maluku
37: Emily Gasser, Laura Arnold, and David Kamholz: The languages of Halmahera and West New Guinea
38: Erik Zobel: Chamorro
39: Erik Zobel: Palauan
40: Penelope Howe: Malagasy
Part IV: Featural Overviews
41: Juliette Blevins: Segment inventories
42: Daniel Kaufman and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann: Suprasegmental phonology
43: Mark Donohue: Phonotactics and morphophonology
44: Mark Donohue and David Gil: Morphology
45: Veronika Mattes and Thomas Schwaiger: Reduplication
46: Mark Donohue: Word order
47: Paul Kroeger and Sonja Riesberg: Voice and transitivity
48: Antoinette Schapper and William McConvell: Adnominal possession
49: Gary Holton and Leah Pappas: Spatial orientation
50: Johan van der Auwera, Daniël Van Olmen, and Frens Vossen: Negation
51: Ljuba Veselinova, Leif Asplund, and Jozina Vander Klok: Phasal polarity
52: Alexander Adelaar and John Hajek: Personal pronouns
References
Index
