The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar - Couverture rigide

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9780700712861: The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
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ISBN 10 : 0700712860 ISBN 13 : 9780700712861
Editeur : Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Some 800 Austronesian languages are spoken in the area extending from Madagascar to eastern Indonesia and to the north to Taiwan and the Philippines. They vary greatly in almost every possible respect, including the size and social make-up of the speech communities and their typological profiles. This book is designed to serve as a reference work and in-depth introduction to these languages, providing a source of basic information for linguists and other professionals concerned with this area. It highlights the cultural and linguistic diversity of this group of languages while at the same time keeping track of their common heritage.

Five introductory articles on linguistic history, language politics, language endangerment, ritual speech and special registers, and major typological features have the entire area in their scope and provide a balanced and up-to-date discussion of the major issues. The core of the volume consists of grammatical sketches of twenty languages plus three chapters dealing with different aspects of Malay (Old Malay, Malayic varieties and Colloquial Indonesian), representing a good cross-section of the linguistic diversity found in the area.

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À propos de l?auteur


Alexander Adelaar is Associate Professor and Reader in Indonesian at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His main publications are on Austronesian historical and descriptive linguistics, especially Malay varieties, Malagasy, languages of West Borneo and Siraya (Taiwan).

Nikolaus P. Himmelmann was previously Professor and Chair at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat, Germany. He has done fieldwork in the Philippines (Tagalog), Sulawesi (Tomini-Tolitoli languages) and East Timor (Waima'a) and published widely on a number of core issues in Austronesian grammar, including the nature of lexical and syntactic categories and voice.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0700712860
ISBN 13 
9780700712861
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
864
Éditeur
Adelaar K Alexander, Himmelmann Nikolaus
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780415681537: The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar

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ISBN 10 :  0415681537 ISBN 13 :  9780415681537
Editeur : Routledge, 2011
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