Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2010
X, 683 pages
978-3-11-088309-1 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2010
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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174,70 MB
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978-3-11-088309-1 (9783110883091)
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Tom Dutton | Darrell T. Tryon
Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World
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10/1994
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Content
- Intro
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- The classification of the Tamanic languages
- Language change on Umboi Island
- The Polynesian Outliers as a locus of language contact
- Old Javanese influence in Balinese: Balinese speech styles
- Motu-Koiarian contact in Papua New Guinea
- Linguistic evidence for the Tongan Empire
- Cloves and nutmeg, traders and wars: Language contact in the Spice Islands
- Named speech registers in Austronesian languages
- Linguistic evidence for Polynesian influence in the Gilbert Islands
- The mechanisms of language change in Labu
- Contact-induced language change in present-day Indonesian
- The relationship between the languages of the Barrier Islands and the Sulawesi-Philippine languages
- Manado Malay: Product and agent of language change
- Unravelling the linguistic histories of Philippine Negritos
- Early European influence on the languages of Polynesia: The Gambier Islands
- Contact-induced phonological complexification in New Caledonia
- Iaai loanwords and phonemic changes in Fagauvea
- Areal phonological features in north central New Ireland
- Renovation and innovation in the languages of north-western New Britain
- Language contact and contact-induced language change in the Eastern Outer Islands, Solomon Islands
- Contact-induced change in the non-Austronesian languages in the north Moluccas, Indonesia
- Index
