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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
K Alexander Adelaar; Nikolaus Himmelmann |
ISBN: | 9780415681537 0415681537 9780700712861 0700712860 |
OCLC Number: | 777385527 |
Description: | xxi, 841 pages : map ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | 1. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar : a historical perspective / Alexander Adelaar -- 2. Language shift and endangerment / Margaret Florey -- 3. Colonial history and language policy in insular Southeast Asia and Madagascar / Hein Steinhauer -- 4. Ritual languages, special registers and speech decorum in Austronesian languages / James J. Fox -- 5. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar : topological characteristics / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann -- 6. Old Malay / Waruno Mahdi -- 7. Structural diversity in the Malayic subgroup / Alexander Adelaar -- 8. Colloquial Indonesian / Michael C. Ewing -- 9. Tsou / Elizabeth Zeitoun -- 10. Seediq / Naomi Tsukida -- 11. Iloko / Carl Rubino -- 12. Tagalog / Nikolaus P. Himmelmann -- 13. Sama (Bajau) / Akamine Jun -- 14. Kimaragang / Paul Kroeger -- 15. Belait / Adrian Clynes -- 16. Malagasy / Janie Rasoloson and Carl Rubino -- 17. Phan Rang Cham / Graham Thurgood -- 18. Moken and Moklen / Michael D. Larish -- 19. Karo Batak / Geoff Woollams -- 20. Nias / Lea Brown -- 21. Javanese / Alexander K. Ogloblin -- 22. Buol / Erik Zobel -- 23. Makassar / Anthony Jukes -- 24. Mori Bawah / David Mead -- 25. Kambera / Marian Klamer -- 26. Tetun and Leti / Aone van Engelenhoven and Catharina Williams-van Klinken -- 27. Taba / John Bowden -- 28. Biak / Hein Steinhauer. |
Series Title: | Routledge language family series. |
Responsibility: | edited by Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann. |
Abstract:
An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
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