Austronesian and theoretical linguistics / edited by Raphael Mercado, Eric Potsdam, Lisa deMena Travis.
The Austronesian language family is the largest language family in the world, yet its members are relatively little studied, particularly from a formal perspective. Interestingly, because these languages exhibit typologically unusual properties, they pose important challenges to linguistic theory. A...
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
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| Series: | Linguistik aktuell ;
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Table of Contents:
- Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Phonetics/Phonology/Morphology The role of larynx height in the Javanese tense ̃ lax stop contrast; Reduplication in Tanjung Raden Malay; Discontiguous reduplication in a local variety of Malay; Phonological evidence for the structure of Javanese compounds; Intonation, information structure and the derivation of inverse VO languages; Syntax The case of possessors and 'subjects'; Genitive relative constructions and agent incorporation in Tongan.