Full Description
Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of diachronic Austroasiatic syntax, most of which contain new hypotheses, and several address topics that have never been dealt with before in print, such as clause structure and word order in the proto-language, and reconstruction of Munda morphology successfully integrating it into Austroasiatic language history. Also included is a list of proto-AA grammatical words with evaluative and contextualizing comments.
Contents
Preface
List of Illustrations and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Austroasiatic Syntax in Diachronic and Areal Perspective
Paul Sidwell, Mathias Jenny and Mark Alves
Part 1 Syntactic Reconstruction
1 Verb-Initial Structures in Austroasiatic Languages
Mathias Jenny
2 Initial Steps in Reconstructing Proto-Vietic Syntax
Mark Alves
3 Nicobarese Comparative Syntax
Paul Sidwell
Part 2 Northern Austroasiatic Word Order
4 Verb-Initial Order, Gender, and Diachrony in Khasian
Hiram Ring
5 Word Order in the Wa Languages
Atsushi Yamada
Part 3 Munda
6 Proto-Munda Prosody, Morphotactics and Morphosyntax in South Asian and Austroasiatic Contexts
Gregory Anderson
7 The Proto-Munda Predicate and the Austroasiatic Language Family
Felix Rau
8 Proto-Kherwarian Negation, TAM and Person-Indexing Interdependencies
Bikram Jora and Gregory Anderson
9 Relative Clauses in Santali: A Matching Analysis Approach
Mayuri Dilip, Rajesh Kumar, Kārumūri V. Subbārāo, G. Uma Maheshwar Rao and Martin Everaert
Part 4 Grammatical Lexicon
10 Grammatical Words in Austroasiatic: An Annotated Comparative Vocabulary with Reconstructions
Mark Alves, Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell
Index
