| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) : map |
| Series |
Languages of Asia ; 23 |
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Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2020 |
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Languages of Asia series ; 23.
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| Contents |
Introduction. Austroasiatic Syntax in Diachronic and Areal Perspective / Paul Sidwell, Mathias Jenny, and Mark Alves -- Part 1. Syntactic Reconstruction -- Chapter 1. Verb-Initial Structures in Austroasiatic Languages / Mathias Jenny -- Chapter 2. Initial Steps in Reconstructing Proto-Vietic Syntax / Mark Alves -- Chapter 3. Nicobarese Comparative Grammar / Paul Sidwell -- Part 2. Northern Austroasiatic Word Order -- Chapter 4. Word Order and the Grammaticalization of Gender in Khasian / Hiram Ring -- Chapter 5. Word Order in the Wa Languages / Atsushi Yamada -- Part 3. Munda -- Chapter 6. Proto-Munda Prosody, Morphotactics and Morphosyntax in South Asian and Austroasiatic Contexts / Gregory D.S. Anderson -- Chapter 7. The Proto-Munda Predicate and the Austroasiatic Language Family / Felix Rau -- Chapter 8. Proto-Kherwarian Negation, TAM and Person-Indexing Interdependencies / Bikram Jora and Gregory D.S. Anderson -- Chapter 9. Relative Clauses in Santali: A Matching Analysis Approach / Mayuri Dilip, Rajesh Kumar, Kārumūri V. Subbārāo, G. Maheshwar Rao, and Martin Everaert -- Part 4. Grammatical Lexicon -- Chapter 10. Austroasiatic Affixes and Grammatical Lexicon / Mark Alves, Mathias Jenny, and Paul Sidwell |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Austroasiatic languages -- Syntax
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Austroasiatic languages -- Grammar, Historical
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Linguistics.
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Language and linguistics
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linguistics.
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Linguistics.
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| SUBJECT |
Southeast Asia -- Languages -- Syntax
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Southeast Asia -- Languages -- Grammar, Historical
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sidwell, Paul, editor
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Alves, Mark, editor
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Jenny, Mathias, editor
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| ISBN |
9004425608 |
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9789004425606 |
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