SubjectsLinguistics / Austronesian languages
Journal
ISSN 1606-822X | E‑ISSN 2309‑5067
Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective
Edited by Qiongpeng Luo, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li
The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese
Edited by Lian-Hee Wee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang
Austronesian Undressed: How and why languages become isolating
Edited by David Gil and Antoinette Schapper
Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of the languages… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 129] 2020. ix, 510 pp.
Sound, Form, and Meaning of Chinese Dialects
Edited by Ik-sang Eom
The interface of semantics & etymology, morpho-syntax, and pragmatics in Chinese
Edited by Jeeyoung Peck
Growing up on the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea: Childhood and educational ideologies in Tauwema
Barbara Senft and Gunter Senft
This volume deals with the children’s socialization on the Trobriands. After a survey of ethnographic studies on childhood, the book zooms in on indigenous ideas of conception and birth-giving, the children’s early development, their integration into playgroups, their games and their education… read more
Imdeduya: Variants of a myth of love and hate from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea
Gunter Senft
This volume presents five variants of the Imdeduya myth: two versions of the actual myth, a short story, a song and John Kasaipwalova’s English poem “Sail the Midnight Sun”. This poem draws heavily on the Trobriand myth which introduces the protagonists Imdeduya and Yolina and reports on Yolina’s… read more
Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea: Psycholinguistic and anthropological linguistic analyses of tales told by Trobriand children and adults
Gunter Senft
This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate… read more
The Tuma Underworld of Love: Erotic and other narrative songs of the Trobriand Islanders and their spirits of the dead
Gunter Senft
The Trobriand Islanders' eschatological belief system explains what happens when someone dies. Bronislaw Malinowski described essentials of this eschatology in his articles "Baloma: the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands" and "Myth in Primitive Psychology". There he also presented the… read more
Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics
Edited by Raphael Mercado, Eric Potsdam and 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.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 167] 2010. vii, 379 pp.
Minimalist Interfaces: Evidence from Indonesian and Javanese
Yosuke Sato
This monograph explores the interface between syntax and its related components through in-depth investigation of a sizable portion of the grammar of Indonesian and Javanese. It can be read on two levels. Theoretically, it proposes the minimalist interface thesis that syntax-external linguistic… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 155] 2010. xiii, 159 pp.
Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language: An ethnolinguistic study
Svenja Völkel
This interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between culture, language and cognition based on the aspects of social structure, space and possession in Tonga, Polynesia. Grounded on extensive field research, Völkel explores the subject from an anthropological as well as from a… read more[Culture and Language Use, 2] 2010. xv, 272 pp.
Grammar and Inference in Conversation: Identifying clause structure in spoken Javanese
Michael C. Ewing
This study analyzes how morphosyntactic structures and information flow characteristics are used by interlocutors in producing and understanding clauses in conversational Javanese, focusing on the Cirebon variety of the language. While some clauses display grammatical mechanisms used to code their… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 18] 2005. x, 276 pp.
Filipino English and Taglish: Language switching from multiple perspectives
Roger M. Thompson
English competes with Tagalog and Taglish, a mixture of English and Tagalog, for the affections of Filipinos. To understand the competing ideologies that underlie this switching between languages, this book looks at the language situation from multiple perspectives. Part A reviews the social and… read more[Varieties of English Around the World, G31] 2003. xiv, 288 pp.
Searching for Structure: The problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation
Robert Englebretson
This book argues against the existence of complementation in colloquial Indonesian, and discusses the ramifications of these findings for a discourse-functional understanding of grammatical categories and linguistic structure. Based on a close analysis of a corpus of spontaneous conversational… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 13] 2003. x, 205 pp.
Austronesian Root Theory: An essay on the limits of morphology
Robert Blust
Since the pioneering analyses of Renward Brandstetter (1860–1942) a quasi-morphological element called the ‘root’ has been recognized in Austronesian linguistics. This monograph confronts many of the methodological and substantive issues raised but never fully resolved by Brandstetter. In an effort… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 19] 1988. xi, 190 pp.