Language and Text in the Austronesian World
Studies in Honour of Ülo Sirk
Yury A. Lander & Alexander K. Ogloblin (eds.)
Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow
This volume, dedicated to Ülo Sirk, one of the most prominent Russian Austronesianists, includes about twenty papers devoted to languages belonging to the Austronesian family. The contributions to the volume cover both synchronic and diachronic issues and explore various levels: phonology, grammar, text structure, etc. While presenting both new data and new interpretations, the collection of papers may be of interest for scholars of different disciplines: linguists and philologists, anthro-pologists, historians.
Contents:
Yury A. Lander and Alexander K. Ogloblin: On Ülo Sirk and His Work
Part 1. Diachrony
Alexander Adelaar: On the Classifiability of Malayic
Sergey Kullanda: Old Javanese Kinship Terminology: Some Historical-Typological Implications
Alexander K. Ogloblin: In Search of Middle Javanese
Andrew Pawley: Where and When Was Proto Oceanic Spoken? Linguistic and Archaeological Evidence
Ilia Peiros: Malayic, Chamic and Aceh: Some Lexicostatistical Remarks
René van den Berg: Notes on the Historical Phonology and Classification of Wolio
John U. Wolff: The Reconstruction of the Proto-Austronesian Phoneme *g
Part 2. Synchrony
T. David Andersen & Robin McKenzie: Word Order of Prepositional Phrases in Aralle-Tabulahan and Moronene
Mikhail A. Chlenov & Svetlana F. Chlenova: The Damar Batumerah (West Damar Language) of South-Eastern Indonesia
Svetlana F. Chlenova: Preliminary Grammatical Notes on Damar Batumerah or West Damar, a Language of Southwest Maluku
Mark Donohue: Obligatory Incorporation and ‘Have’ in Tukang Besi
Barbara Friberg & Timothy Friberg: -ka, a Marginalized Grammatical Morpheme in Konjo
David Mead: Functions of the Mori Bawah Indefinite Particle ba: Towards a Comparative Study
Bernd Nothofer: E-mel sebagai bahan pengajaran
Maria Polinsky: The Existential Construction in Malagasy
Lina I. Shkarban: Some Aspects of Relations between Deixis and Syntax in Philippine Languages
Hein Steinhauer: Synchronic Metathesis and Apocope in Three Austronesian Languages of the Timor Area
Part 3. Text studies
Ian Caldwell: Form Criticism and Its Applicability to Bugis Historical Texts
Aone van Engelenhoven: Ktunu: Clues in the Quest of the Sailfish: Linguistic Insights in Southwest Malukan Narratives (East-Indonesia)
Sirtjo Koolhof: Sureq versus lontaraq: The Great Divide?
ISBN 9783895868832 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Austronesian Linguistics 06. 340pp. 2008.
