Traces of Contact in the Lexicon Austronesian and Papuan Studies
"What can the languages spoken today tell us about the history of their speakers? This question is crucial in insular Southeast Asia and New Guinea, where thousands of languages are spoken, but written historical records and archaeological evidence is yet lacking in most regions. While the regi...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Koninklijke Brill nv
[2023]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Brill studies in skepticism ;
Volume 4. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009758529506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Chapter 1. Lexical Borrowing in Austronesian and Papuan Languages: Concepts, Methodology and Findings (Klamer and Moro)
- Part 1. Ancient and Pre-Modern Contact
- Chapter 2. Lexical Influence from South Asia (Hoogervorst)
- Chapter 3. Traces of Pre-modern Contacts between Timor-Alor-Pantar and Austronesian Speakers (Klamer)
- Chapter 4. Phonological Innovation and Lexical Retention in the History of Rote-Meto (Edwards)
- Chapter 5. The Mixed Lexicon of Lamaholot (Austronesian): A Language with a Large Lexical Component of Unknown Origin (Fricke)
- Chapter 6. Entwined Histories: The Lexicons of Kawaimina and Maka Languages (Schapper and Huber)
- Part 2. Modern and Contemporary Contact
- Chapter 7. Detecting Papuan Loanwords in Alorese: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (Moro, Sulistyono and Kaiping)
- Chapter 8. Multilateral Lexical Transfer among Four Papuan Language Families: Border, Nimboran, Sentani, and Sko (Gerstner-Link)
- Chapter 9. Spanish Suffixes in Tagalog: The Case of Common Nouns (Baklanova and Bellamy)
- Chapter 10. The Structural Consequences of Lexical Transfer in Ibatan (Gallego)
- Chapter 11. The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui (Saad)
- Index.
