"Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of diachronic Austroasiatic syntax, most of which contain new hypotheses, and several address topics that have never been dealt with before in print, such as clause structure and word order in the proto-language, and reconstruction of Munda morphology successfully integrating it into Austroasiatic language history. Also included is a list of proto-AA grammatical words with evaluative and contextualizing comments"--
This volume elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The eleven chapters reflect work by 13 leading researchers in Austroasiatic language studies.
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Introduction: Austroasiatic Syntax in Diachronic and Areal Perspective |
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PART 1 Syntactic Reconstruction |
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1 Verb-Initial Structures in Austroasiatic Languages |
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2 Initial Steps in Reconstructing Proto-Vietic Syntax |
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3 Nicobarese Comparative Grammar |
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PART 2 Northern Austroasiatic Word Order |
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4 Word Order and the Grammaticalization of Gender in Khasian |
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5 Word Order in the Wa Languages |
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6 Proto-Munda Prosody, Morphotactics and Morphosyntax in South Asian and Austroasiatic Contexts |
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7 The Proto-Munda Predicate and the Austroasiatic Language Family |
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8 Proto-Kherwarian Negation, TAM and Person-Indexing Interdependencies |
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9 Relative Clauses in Santali: A Matching Analysis Approach |
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PART 4 Grammatical Lexicon |
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10 Austroasiatic Affixes and Grammatical Lexicon |
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Mathias Jenny, Ph.D (2005) University of Zurich, is a senior researcher and lecturer at that university. His main fields of interest are language contact and language change in Southeast Asia, with a special focus on the languages of Myanmar/Burma, on which he has conducted fieldwork and widely published over the past twenty years.
Paul Sidwell, Ph.D. (1999) University of Melbourne, is an Associate at Sydney University and a partner in the firm Language Intelligence (Canberra). His research focuses on Austroasiatic language history and implications for the language and history of Mainland Southeast Asia.
Mark J. Alves, Ph.D. (2000) University of Hawaii, is a Professor at Montgomery College and the Editor-in-Chief of JSEALS. His research has centered on Vietnamese language history, which also encompasses surrounding language groups, including Sinitic/Chinese,Tai, Vietic, and Austroasiatic broadly.
