М.: Восточная литература РАН, 2008. — 480 с. Книга посвящена крупнейшей по числу языков общепризнанной языковой семье — австронезийской. Дается обзор семьи с указанием важнейших языков, рассказывается об истории их исследования, рассматриваются вопросы происхождения и внешних связей австронезийских языков. Автор считает, что реконструированные праязыки — праавстронезийский и...
Peeters, 2006. — 502 p. — (Selaf 435; Langues et Cultures du Pacifique 17). Le bwatoo et les dialectes de la région de Koné (haveke, haeke) sont parlés sur la côte ouest de la Grande Terre en Nouvelle-Calédonie. L’aire dialectale dont ils font partie est située au voisinage immédiat des principaux groupes linguistiques de la Grande Terre: langues du Nord, langues tonales du...
Brill, 2025. — xxvi, 536 p. — (Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects 3). Western Subanon Grammar is the first ever comprehensive description of Western Subanon, a highly endangered indigenous Austronesian minority language in the southern Philippines. Written by a native speaker and the result of intensive fieldwork, the book's 26 chapters cover the phonological,...
Second revised edition. — Lund: Studentlitteratur; Curzon Press, 1977. — 153 p. — (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series 15). Contents Dempwolf’s construction Fiction and reality The structure of the PAN wordbase and word Dempwolf’s sound system The phonemics of the PAN vowels Dempwolf’s symbol ‘ Laryngeals or not Dyen’s *q Dyen’s *’ Real laryngeals? Dyen’s...
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1971. — vii, 294 p. — (University of California publications in linguistics 67). The Teduray (once known as Tiruray) live on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, and speak a language that is part of the Malayo-Polynesian (Austronesian) family. Their language and culture were studied by the author in 1966-67. This...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 1089 p. — ISBN 019880735X. This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family. It brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive account of the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1983. — 178 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 47/Materials in languages of Indonesia 13). As early as 1708, Hadrian Reland observed the linguistic similarities of many languages of the Indonesian archipelago and beyond. By the year 1784, two years before Sir William Jones brought to light the concept of a...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1984. — 146 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 91). The aim of this study is to carry out a comparative analysis of a small group of Austronesian languages with the intention of reconstructing as much as possible of their exclusively shared parent language and determining their inter relationships. The...
FilipinoPod101.com, 2024. — 141 p. — ISBN 978-1641676410. Want to learn and speak real Filipino? While most textbooks have you reading rules about the language: With Can Do Filipino, you’ll be able to do everyday activities such as… introduce yourself, talk about the weather or your family, give your phone number, count in Filipino, and much, much more. You’ll be able to…...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1984. — 368 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 78). Nestled along the coast and tucked into the mountains of Sabah are Sabahans representing various cultural groups and speaking various languages and dialects . The cultural centre of some of these groups is in Sabah whereas for others it is in the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1986. — 220 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 70/Materials in languages of Indonesia 32). The Sama–Bajaw languages are a well-established group of languages spoken by the Sama-Bajau peoples (sea gypsies) of the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1987. — 164 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 99). Since writing A comparative study in Anem and Lusi (Thurston 1982), I have conducted two other field trips to north-western New Britain (NWNB) to focus on other languages which are either currently in contact with Anem, or which may have been in contact...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1987. — 354 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 81/Materials in languages of Indonesia 39). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1987. — 238 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 76/Materials in languages of Indonesia 36). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1987. — 220 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 75/Materials in languages of Indonesia 35). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1987. — 262 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 74/Materials in languages of Indonesia 34). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1986. — 320 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 71/Materials in languages of Indonesia 33). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1984. — 256 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 62/Materials in languages of Indonesia 25). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1983. — 334 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 60/Materials in languages of Indonesia 23). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1983. — 244 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 61/Materials in languages of Indonesia 24). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1983. — 342 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 59/Materials in languages of Indonesia 22). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 190 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 52/Materials in languages of Indonesia 18). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 318 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 51/Materials in languages of Indonesia 17). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 184 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 50/Materials in languages of Indonesia 16). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 220 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 49/Materials in languages of Indonesia 15). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1981. — 212 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 44/Materials in languages of Indonesia 10). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1981. — 204 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 35/Materials in languages of Indonesia 4). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1980. — 330 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 28/Materials in languages of Indonesia 2). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1980. — 156 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 17/Materials in languages of Indonesia 1). The Holle lists are a comprehensive collection of vocabulary lists for various languages spoken in Indonesia. Compiled by Karel Frederik Holle and later expanded by other linguists, these lists cover a wide range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — 334 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 79). The Functions of Reduplication in Da'a - Donald F. Barr Daʼa verbal affixes and clitics - Donald F. Barr Da'a Kinship and Marriage - Sharon G. Barr Focus and Mood in Da'a Discourse - Donald F. Barr Phonology of Da'a, Central Sulawesi - Donald F. Barr and...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — 280 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 78). Baba Malay: the language of the Straits-born Chinese - Sonny Lim Subject-predicate, focus-presupposition, and topic-comment in Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese - Marmo Soemarmo The Sociocultural Variants of the Second Person Singular Pronoun in Bahasa...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1977. — 138 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 33). Irregular verbs in Mentu Land Dayak (Bukar-Sadong, Ulu Sekajam): some remarks on verb morphology - C. Court Sketches of the Morphology and Phonology of Bornean Languages 1: Uma Juman (Kayan) - R.A. Blust “Kolano’ in the Tondano Language” - F.S. Watuseke
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1991. — 214 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 106). Expository discourse in Upper Tanudan Kalinga is a discourse type that is used to carry out two basic speaker purposes: to explain and to prove. It can also be used to carry out a third purpose: to persuade. If the communicative purpose of an expository...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1993. — 134 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 109). Limos Kalinga (pronounced Kalingga), or Linimos, as it is referred to by its speakers, is one of ten Kalinga dialects. According to Reid (1974), Kalinga is in the Central Cordilleran subgroup of Philippine languages, and is coordinate with Itneg; both...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1994. — 152 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 111). Mori is an Austronesian language, spoken in the eastern districts of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It was first classified by Esser (1938) as a member of the Bungku-Laki subgroup of the Sulawesi languages and then later by Salzner (1960) as a...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1994. — 266 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 110). Karao belongs to the Southern Cordilleran subgroup of Northern Philippine (Western Austronesian) languages. It is spoken by approximately 1,300 people who live in villages in the Karao and Ekip 'barangays' (political subdivisions) in the...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — xxiii, 721 p. — (Comprehensive Grammar Library 8). — ISBN 978-3-96110-476-5. Kagayanen is a resilient Austronesian>Greater Central Philippine>Manobo language spoken by about 30,000 individuals, mostly in Palawan province in the Philippines. This grammar is the result of nearly 40 years of research by Carol Pebley and a team of Kagayanen...
The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2011. — 334 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 635). Dupaningan Agta is an Austronesian language spoken in northeastern Luzon, Philippines by approximately 1400 semi- nomadic hunter-gatherers belonging to the Negrito ethnic minority. The language is endangered, as it is beginning to lose child speakers. Dupaningan is...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1983. — 306 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 55). The study is concerned primarily with collective representations mani fest in language, in the text and its performance, and the social discourse that it evokes. To put the text in its proper perspective within the Ngadha culture I provide as many...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — 502 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 98). The purpose of this work is to elucidate the higher-order genetic relationships of the Austronesian (AN) languages of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) region. There is today a widespread acceptance among Austronesianists of the 'Oceanic hypothesis', according...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1981. — 416 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 48). Pampangan belongs to the Central Luzon group of languages, one of the five language groups proposed by Kroeber (1919), who grouped the Philippine languages into five geographical divisions: North-eastern Luzon, North-western Luzon, North Central, Central...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1988. — 152 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 97). Kadazan (or Dusun as some dialects are called) is spoken in many areas of Sabah, East Malaysia, and many of the dialects are mutually unintelligible. It is a language of the Bornean stock. The total number of Kadazan/Dusun speakers is over 100,000. The...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 330 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 76). Tagalog respect forms: sociolinguistic uses, origins, and parallels - Joseph F. Kess Linguistic varieties in Toba-Batak - J.P. Sarumpaet Language use at Namatota: a sociolinguistic profile - Roland Walker Two schools: on functions of language in the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 358 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 75). Proto-Austronesian *c, *z, *g and *t - John U. Wolff The present status of some Austronesian sub grouping hypotheses - Isidore Dyen A syntactic model for the comparative study of Austronesian languages - Teodoro A. Llamzon Subgroups in Austronesian - Mark...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1982. — 320 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 74). The development of the verb phrase in the Oceanic languages of the Bougainville region - Malcolm Ross Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis - Raymond L. Johnston Towards a classification of Solomon Islands languages - D.T. Tryon Borrowing in...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1986. — 470 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 94). Further thoughts on Oceanic subgrouping - George W. Grace On the nature of subgrouping arguments - S.P. Harrison Proto-Austronesian laterals and nasals - Isidore Dyen and Shigeru Tsuchida Lingui stic variations of different age groups in some Formosan...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1986. — 414 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 93). A focal approach to problems of verbal syntax in Fijian - G.B. Milner Focus in Malagasy and Proto-Austronesian - Otto Chr. Dahl On the pragmatics of focus - Paz Buenaventura Naylor Some consequences of causative clause union in Tagalog - Videa P. De...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1991. — 166 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 118). Michael E. Boutin - Aspect and temporal reference in Banggi Richard Brewis and Stephen H. Levinsohn - Topic and emphasis in Timugon Murut Julie K. King - Thematic continuity and development in Tombonuo narrative discourse John Wayne King and Stephen H....
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1978. — 214 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 54). The aim of the present study is to carry out a detailed comparative analysis of a small group of Austronesian languages with the intention of reconstructing as much as possible of their exclusively shared parent language. The five languages involved in...
The Australian National University, 1971. — 334 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 18). Introduction Phonology Basic Verbal Clauses Basic Non-Verbal Clauses Morphology Clause Exponents and Orderings Phrase Constructions Non-Basic Clauses Texts Outline Studies of other Murut Languages
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1996. — 434 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 87). Nowau, or Kitawa (O'Grady and Zisa 1971:1224), is a Melanesian language of the Austronesian group as are other languages of the d'Entrecasteaux Archipelago (Lithgow & Staalsen 1965) today included in Milne Bay Province. It is related to the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001. — 458 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 511). This sourcebook presents an edited version of the fieldnotes gathered during an extensive linguistic survey of the Tomini-Tolitoli languages, a group of eleven languages spoken in northern Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The introductory sections present...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001. — 477 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 521). Taba is an Austronesian language spoken on the Halmahera region of eastern Indonesia. This book is the only comprehensive modern grammar of any language from the South Halmahera-West New Guinea subgroup that is a sister to the much better documented...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2007. — 750 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 590). This book is a grammar of Pendau, an Austronesian language spoken by around four thousand people in north-central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Pendau belongs to the Tomini-Tolitoli subgroup, and this book is the first comprehensive decription of any of these...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — 110 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 546). Kiput is a member of the Berawan-Lower Baram branch of the North Sarawak subgroup of Austronesian languages, spoken by perhaps 450 people. The entire language community resides in a single longhouse known variously as Long Kiput, Long Tutoh or Kuala...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — 268 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 523). Language and space Spatial reference in Alune - Margaret Florey and Barbara F. Kelly Hiding behind trees on Ambae: spatial reference in an Oceanic language of Vanuatu - Catriona Hyslop Inside and outside Niuean space - Wolfgang B. Sperlich The case...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2001. — 296 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 519). Robert Blust - Historical morphology and the spirit world: The *qali/kali-prefixes i n Austronesian languages Joel Bradshaw - The elusive shape of the realislirrealis distinction in Jabem Terry Crowley - What happened to Erromangan possessive morphology?...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — 236 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 520). The main objective of this study is to determine the actancy system (ergativity or accusativity) of Proto Central Pacific, and to determine how this system developed in its daughter languages, Fijian and Rotuman, which are accusative, as well as in the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — 480 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 518). Overviews Voice in western Austronesian: an update - Nikolaus P. Hirnmelmann The history and transitivity of western Austronesian voice and voice-marking - Malcolm Ross Notes on the history of 'focus' in Austronesian languages - Robert Blust Languages of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2000. — 246 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 503). The volume contains original data and modern analyses from a number of poorly documented CMP languages of central and southern Maluku, as well a one WMP language of SE Sulawesi. Introduction: new information filling old gaps in eastern Indonesia -...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — 178 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 563). This book is a collection of papers taking different approaches to the problems of classifying languages and varieties of languages within the Austronesian language family. Perspec tives on subgrouping and dialectology: an introduction - John Bowden and...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2000. — 416 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 505). Proto Oceanic studies Star, wind, and wave: searching for early Oceanic navigation tenus - Meredith Osmond Where did suli come from? A study of the words connected to taro plants in Oceanic languages - Ritsuko Kikusawa The true prepositions/case markers...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — 212 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 562). When we communicate, we communicate in a certain context, and this context shapes our utterances. Natural languages are context-bound and deixis ‘concerns the ways in which languages encode or grammaticalise features of the context of utterance or speech...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1991. — 572 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 117). “Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian Languages and Ethnolinguistics in Honour of George W. Grace” is a comprehensive collection of scholarly papers. It delves into Austronesian languages and ethnolinguistics, paying tribute to the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2005. — 290 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 569). A collection of papers dealing with issues in the 'Mainland Austronesian Languages', Chamic, Acehnese and Moken/Moklen—not a single genetic sub-grouping but a number of related languages that have undergone parallel typological restructuring away from...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1999. — 200 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 91). Languages of the Bungku-Tolaki group are spread across the entire mainland of south-eastern Sulawesi (Celebes), and also encompass the islands of Kabaena, Wawonii, Menui, and the north-eastern portion of the island of Buton. To the north, they...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — 342 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 548). In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in linguistic borrowing, especially with regard to its importance in the reconstruction of pre-history. However, the general literature on borrowing has been based on a somewhat restricted range of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1975. — 92 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 32). In Itneg, as in many other languages, clauses combine to form sentences in three ways: (a) the combining of two or more independent or nuclear elements, (b) the combining of two dependent or subordinate elements, and (c) the combining of one or more...
The Australian National University, 1992. — 265 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 119). A reconstruction of Proto-Malayic phonology, lexicon and morphology based on the systematic comparison of six ‘Malayic’ varieties: Standard Malay, Minangkabau, Banjar Malay, Middle Malay (Sumatra), Iban (Sarawak), and Jakarta Malay.
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — 228 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 529). This is a commemorative volume for the late David John (Jack) Prentice (1942-1995). Jack Prentice was a linguist who published on Timugon Murut (Sabah, Borneo ) and on various forms of Malay and Indonesian. This book contains papers on the grammatical...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1992. — 92 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 107). All of the languages examined in this study are members of the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The 'Oceanic Hypothesis', first proposed by Dempwolff (1934-38) says that the languages of Polynesia, the Austronesian languages of...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2005. — 284 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 571). The Ninth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics and the Fifth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics were both held at The Australian National University in Canberra during January 2002. Rather than publish a single very diverse...
The Australian National University, 2003. — 672 p. This dissertation is a basic description of Pendau, a previously undescribed Western Malayo-Polynesian language in the Tomini-Tolitoli group found in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. This description relies heavily on natural language data for its documentation. Most of the description covers concerns in the typological functional...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1985. — 360 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 88). The 15th Pacific Science Congress was held in Dunedin, New Zealand, from February 1-11, 1983. Papers submitted from the four Congress symposia dealing with Pacific Island languages are being published by Pacific Linguistics. The present volume contains...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2009. — 552 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 601). This book brings together new work on Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history to honour Robert Blust. The memoirs in Part 1 reflect on Blust's groundbreaking contributions to these fields over the last 40 years. The remaining 26 chapters...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1994. — 632 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 127). In this comprehensive volume, the authors examine the lexicons and terminologies across Austronesian languages. The Austronesian language family includes languages spoken across a vast geographical area, from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands....
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2009. — 852 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 602). This is the first single-authored book that attempts to describe the Austronesian language family in its entirety. It includes chapters or chapter sections on: the physical and cultural background in which these languages are embedded, official and...
The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2016. — 310 p. — (Asia-Pacific Linguistics 34). Edited by Hiroki Nomoto, Takuya Miyauchi, Asako Shiohara The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) is an organization that promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. The 23rd Annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal...
The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2016. — 245 p. — (Asia-Pacific Linguistics 27). Edited by Henrison Hsieh The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) is an organization that promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. The 22nd annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 22)...
The Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific, 2015. — 317 p. — (Asia-Pacific Linguistics 25). Edited by Amber Camp, Yuko Otsuka, Claire Stabile and Nozomi Tanaka The Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA) is an organization which promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. The 21st annual meeting of the Austronesian...
Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1970. — 84 p. — (Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields 26). Western Bukidnon Manobo is the language of some 8,000 Manobo people in the southwestern portion of the province of Bukidnon on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It is one of a number of Manobo languages all...
Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1970. — 203 p. — (Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields 27). Sentence in Central Bontoc Notes on Central Bontoc Discourse and Paragraph Structure
Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1968. — 506 p. — (Summer Institute of Linguistics Publications in Linguistics and Related Fields 21). Volume I: Discourse and paragraph structure Volume II: Sentence structure Twenty-five Philippine languages and dialects were studied to determine the manner in which words, clauses, sounds, and sentences group...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2024. — viii, 182 p. — (Topics in Phonological Diversity 2). — ISBN 978-3-96110-436-9. This book is an investigation into aspects of prosody, intonation and the prosody-syntax interface in Totoli, an endangered Austronesian language. With a strongly data-driven approach, the study integrates a combination of experimental evidence from both...
Harvard University, 2023. — 554 p. This dissertation is a detailed investigation into the morphosyntax of Amarasi (ISO: aaz), an Austronesian language of West Timor, Indonesia. It focuses on the various subsystems of voice, valency, and agreement within the language from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective, with the goals of i) deepening our empirical understanding of...
Yale University, 2015. — 343 p. Wamesa [WAD] is an endangered Austronesian language spoken in the south-eastern Bird's Head of New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of West Papua. This dissertation provides a description and formal analysis of the phonology and morphology of the Windesi dialect based on the author's fieldwork with speakers of the language. Chapter 1 provides...
Leiden University, 2023. — 471 p. This dissertation examines the Malayic varieties spoken in Kelantan and Terengganu, two Malaysian states located on the northeast coast of the Malay Peninsula. It focuses on three varieties, namely Kelantan Malay, Coastal Terengganu Malay and Inland Terengganu Malay, all belonging to the Malayic subgroup within the Austronesian language family....
University of Georgia, 2014. — 183 p. This thesis will attempt to classify the languages of Kotawaringin Barat, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia using comparative analysis and dialectology. Comparison will be made with Proto-Malayic and other comparative dialectal studies to determine if the KoBar languages are autochthonous to Borneo or part of a back-migration of Malay languages...
Australian Catholic University, 2021. — 166 p. The Oceanic language Matukar Panau has three equivalent morphosyntactic strategies for describing the direction of the event represented by a verb, with a system of ten directional morphemes that can appear in each construction. This variation is explored using a corpus from Matukar Panau and analysed quantitatively with recursive...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1994. — 696 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 77). Language contact and contact-induced language change is widespread throughout the languages of the world, but perhaps nowhere more so than in island Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This area is largely occupied by peoples speaking languages belonging to the Austronesian family, the most...
Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, 2010. — 610 p. This work, divided into two volumes, is the study of the history of words in the Austronesian (An) languages―their origin in Proto-Austronesian (PAn) or at later stages and how they developed into the forms that are attested in the current An languages. A study of their history entails the reconstruction of...
Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University, 2010. — 568 p. This work, divided into two volumes, is the study of the history of words in the Austronesian (An) languages―their origin in Proto-Austronesian (PAn) or at later stages and how they developed into the forms that are attested in the current An languages. A study of their history entails the reconstruction of...
SIL International, 2022. — 195 p. This book is a descriptive grammar of the Eastern Tawbuid language, containing analysis of the phonology, morphology and syntax of this under-documented language of the Philippines. The ISO code for this language is [bnj]. Prior to this book, there has been virtually no published data or analysis of the Eastern Tawbuid language, and there has...
SIL International, 2022. — 87 p. This book describes the participant reference system of Central Sinama [sml] narrative discourse, based on patterns found across nine oral texts recorded in Kanaꞌan, a Sama community in Davao City, Philippines. The methodology combines adapted versions of Dooley and Levinsohn’s Sequential Default Method (2001) and Longacre and Hwang’s Discourse...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2004. — 412 p. — (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 29). Serial verbs and complex predicates have a long history of research, yet there is comparatively little documentation on Oceanic languages. This volume presents new data for further typological studies. While previous research on serial verbs in Oceanic languages was mostly devoted to "core"...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 616 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 647). The book presents a description of Unua, one of two dialects of Unua-Pangkumu, an Oceanic language of Malakula Island, Vanuatu. Unua has about 700 speakers who are bilinguals using Unua in local interactions and using the national language, Bislama, non-locally, as well as in local public and religious settings. The...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 290 p. — (Pacific Linguistics [PL]; 652). — ISBN 3110781611. This book documents an understudied phenomenon in Austronesian languages, namely the existence of recurrent submorphemic sound-meaning associations of the general form -CVC. It fills a critical gap in scholarship on these languages by bringing together a large body of data in one place, and by...
Australian Catholic University, 2002. — 328 p. This dissertation is a grammatical description of the Austronesian language Keo. as spoken in the village of Udiworowatu in central Flores, eastern Indonesia. The language is unlike many previously described Austronesian languages became it is highly isolating. It has basic AVO/SV word order. Following an introduction to the...
SOAS, University of London, 1969. — 427 p. This thesis is a grammatical study of Iban, an Austronesian language, spoken in Sarawak, Malaysia. It commences with an account of the background of the people and their language, the aim and scope of the thesis, the collection of data and the method of describing the grammar. Although the theme of the thesis is grammar, a chapter on...
SOAS, University of London, 2009. — 499 p. This thesis examines the syntactic and semantic behaviour of motion verbs in Kubokota, a North West Solomonic language. In Talmy's (1985) typology of motion event lexicalisation. verb-framed languages lexicalise the path of motion in the verb and the manner of motion in a satellite, while satellite-framed languages lexicalise manner in...
SOAS, University of London, 2018. — 362 p. This thesis explores the structure of Blanga (iso 639-3 code blp), a previously undescribed and undocumented Austronesian language of the Solomon Islands. It opens with a sociolinguistic and ethnographic introduction to the language, their speakers and the linguistic ecology of the region, followed by a presentation of the main...
SOAS University of London, 2019. — 425 p. This thesis examines morphosyntactic variation in an unusual sociolinguistic context in Vanuatu. Vatlongos (Oceanic, Austronesian) is spoken by communities in the southeast of Ambrym island, and by a peri-urban community near the capital city, who relocated after a volcanic explosion in the early 1950s. Within Southeast Ambrym, the...
University of Waikato, 2017. — 317 p. This thesis presents an investigation of pre-clausal phenomena in the lesser-studied languages of the Oceanic language family. The study is innovative in that the pre-clausal structure of interest, hereinafter labelled as a PRE construction, is analysed in its entirety, and found to exhibit prototypicality in regards to its structure and...
Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV, 2004. — 99 p. Après un exposé résumant les différents aspects de ma recherche en Océanie depuis la fin des années 1970, j'aborde différents points de syntaxe essentiellement les problèmes de catégorisation dans les langues océaniennes et la variété des structures actancielles.
University of California – Berkeley, 2014. — 262 p. This dissertation presents a new subgrouping of South Halmahera-West New Guinea (SHWNG) languages. The 38 SHWNG languages form a small, poorly known branch of Austronesian. The Austronesian family originated in Taiwan and later spread into Indonesia, across New Guinea, and to the remote Pacific. In New Guinea, approximately...
Australian Catholic University, 2004. — 610 p. This study describes selected aspects of the grammar of Ibaloy, a member of the Northern Philippines subgroup of Austronesian, spoken on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. A sketch of the phonology is provided, as focusing on processes that interact with morphology. Phonological words in Ibaloy carry final or penultimate...
University of Hawaii, 2023. — 244 p. Kala is a Western Oceanic language of the North Huon Gulf subfamily (Ross 1988), spoken along the Huon Gulf by around 3000 speakers in four dialects. Speakers are divided between six villages, from north to south along a stretch of coast about 50km long. From northernmost to southernmost, these villages are Manindala (also called Kela),...
University of Hawaii, 2009. — 179 p. Ivatan is the language of some 13,000 inhabitants of the Batanes Islands, situated in the Luzon Strait north of Luzon in the Philippines, and separated from the Southern tip of Taiwan by the Bashi Channel. Ivatan is a member of the Philippine Branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages. This dissertation is a syntactic description of the Central...
Köln, 2013. — 208 p. This work is a description of Tajio, a Western Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. It covers the essential aspects of Tajio grammar without being exhaustive. Tajio has a medium sized phoneme inventory consisting of twenty consonants and five vowels. The language does not have lexical (word) stress; rather, it has a phrasal...
Brill, 2023. — XVIII, 434 p. — (Brill Studies in Language Contact and the Dynamics of Language, Volume: 4). 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...
Institute of Pacific Studies, 1996. — 314 p. The Pacific region has over 1200 indigenous languages. Different Pacific Island countries have different 'language profiles'. Some countries, such as Cook Islands, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Niue, and Tokelau, have only one indigenous language, which has relatively high status. Other countries, such as Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and...
Routledge, 2022. — 284 p. This monograph is a grammatical description of Tondano, an endangered and under-documented Austronesian (AN) language spoken in the northern part of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is a modified version of the related doctoral dissertation completed at La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia (2015). The chapters herein begin by...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 256 p. — (Pacific Linguistics [PL] 646). This book is an in-depth study of the voice systems of Totoli, Balinese, Indonesian, and Tagalog, which shows that the symmetrical nature of these systems poses a problem to current linking theories. It provides an analysis of symmetrical linking within two grammatical theories (LFG & RRG) and...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 250 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 645). The first published treatment of the syntax of Jarai, an Austronesian language of Southeast Asia, this volume focuses on the noun phrase and three regions of the clause: the left periphery, inflectional elements, and the verbal domain. Close attention is given to pseudo-cleft questions and serial...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — 374 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 539/Studies in language change 1). This study looks at such shared features not to provide proof of common origin, but rather to provide a reconstruction of the original ancestor language. The existence of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the modern Austronesian...
The Australian National University, Canberra, 1992. — 266 p. In this study I compare the Malayic isolects, and attempt to reconstruct their common ancestor, Proto Malayic. There are several motives for this study. First, little is known about the linguistic evolution of the Malayic isolects, or the nature of Proto Malayic (PM). The reconstruction of PM may also provide more...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2003. — 236 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 550). This volume contains ten papers in the area of Austronesian historical phonology, ranging from John Wolff's survey of the Proto Austronesian phonological system, which appears first in this volume, to detailed studies on individual languages or...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, Canberra, 1986. — 212 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 69/Materials in languages of Indonesia 31). Part XV: Borneo: South Borneo Ot Danum Dayak (List 151) Banjar (List 213) Martapura (List 214) Ngaju Dayak (List 212) Katingan Dayak (List 152) Maanyan (List 129) Part XVI: Borneo: Other Areas Ulu Malay,...
Australian Catholic University, 1991. — 580 p. Buru is an Austronesian (Central Malayo-Polynesian) language spoken by around 45,000 people on the island of Buru in eastern Indonesia. Typologically, the language can be characterised as S V 0 (X), prepositional, with modifiers following the head noun in an NP and the genitive occurring before the noun. Analysis of Buru phonology...
Leiden University, 2019. — 595 p. This dissertation reconstructs the history of the Flores-Lembata languages (Austronesian, eastern Indonesia) by investigating traces of contact in the lexicon and grammar. Part I fills a gap in the documentation of the Flores-Lembata languages by providing a descriptive grammar of the previously undescribed Central Lembata language. Part II...
University of Texas – Arlington, 2020. — 299 p. This dissertation focuses on five Malayic and five Land Dayak languages of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, exploring voice, A’-movement, and extraction asymmetries through a Minimalist framework. The main goal of this dissertation is to bridge the gap between documentation and syntactic analysis in a few ways: a) by using data from...
SIL Dallas, Texas, 2011. — xx, 508 p. The Mori language is spoken in eastern central Sulawesi, Indonesia. This book is a translation of Samuel J. Esser’s Klank- en Vormleer van het Morisch, a Dutch grammar published in two parts (1927 and 1933). Apart from changes in terminology which have overtaken the field of linguistics in the intervening years (e.g., the terms ‘ergative’...
University of Hawaii, 2020. — 467 p. The Subanen languages (also Subanon and Subanun) are a group of closely related Austronesian languages belonging to the Greater Central Philippine subgroup.
University of Hawaii, 2022. — 156 p. This dissertation presents a morphosyntactic description of a variety of Sasak referred to as Ampenan Sasak (henceforth AS). AS has been traditionally grouped in previous studies on Sasak as part of Ngeno-ngené dialect. Sasak itself is an under-described Austronesian language spoken on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok. Utilizing a...
University of Hawaii, 2021. — 315 p. The subject of this dissertation is the Lun Bawang language (also called Lundayeh, and formerly also Murut), and in particular the Kemaloh dialect thereof, spoken principally in highland Borneo in the area near, and on all sides of, the borders dividing Malaysia’s Sarawak and Sabah and Indonesia’s Kalimantan Utara. The dissertation is based...
University of Hawaii, 2022. — 280 p. The Hawu language (Hawu: Lii Hawu) is the language of the Savu people of Savu Island in Indonesia and of Raijua Island off the western tip of Savu. Hawu has been referred to by a variety of names such as Havu, Savu, Sabu, Sawu, and is known to outsiders as Savu or Sabu (thus Havunese, Savunese, Sawunese). Hawu belongs to the...
Australian Catholic University, 1986. — 539 p. The main objective of this work is to elucidate the higher-order genetic relationships of the Austronesian languages of western Melanesia within the framework of Dempwolff's 'Oceanic hypothesis". The west Melanesian Oceanic languages investigated here consist of all the Austronesian languages of Papua New Guinea and of the Solomon...
SOAS, University of London, 2016. — 612 p. Western Austronesian languages are typically defined in contrast to Oceanic languages as possessing a system of 'symmetrical' voice alternations (Himmelmann 2005a). These are alternations in the mapping of predicate arguments to grammatical functions but, unlike passives and antipassives, do not involve syntactic detransitivisation....
Australian Catholic University, 2012. — 109 p. I present data from Tolaki, an Austronesian language of Central Indonesia, which challenges the notion that grammatical functions form discrete categories. I argue that current models of grammatical functions within Lexical Functional Grammar cannot account for the data we find. If we were to posit discrete categories for...
Edith Cowan University, 1991. — 97 p. The Grammar is of the Limos Kalinga dialect, referred to by its speakers as Linimos. It . is one of ten Kalinga dialects belonging to the Central Cordilleran subgroup. An estimated 70,000 to 80,000 Kalingas live in the mountainous Kalinga subprovince of Kalinga Apayo in northern Luzon, Republic of the Philippines. Linimos itself is spoken...
The Australian National University, Canberra, 1982. — 92 p. A description is given of the Sawu language spoken on Sawu Island, Indonesia. Detailed discussions are provided of phonology & word classes. Syntactic components discussed include noun phrase constituents, verbs, excess adverbs, & particles. Several other syntactic components are described: interrogative, imperative, &...
Stockholm University, 2020. — 60 p. Rembong-Wangka is an Austronesian language, which together with other little described languages, belongs to the Manggaraic subgroup of Austronesian. One aim is to present information about them, as well as other languages in the area, drawn from not readily accessible sources, including archival material, and information collected by the...
Rice University, 1998. — 532 p. The Bungku-Tolaki group of languages (Austronesian, Western Malayo-Polynesian) comprises fifteen languages spoken in and around the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi Island in present-day Indonesia. Although there exist no written records for these languages prior to 1900, I apply the traditional methods of historical and comparative...
University of Melbourne, 1997. — 540 p. This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Taba (also known as Makian Dalam or East Makian). Taba is an Austronesian (South Halmahera/Eastern Malayo-Polynesian) language spoken by over 20,000 people on Makian island and neighbouring areas of North Maluku in eastern Indonesia. Taba has typologically unusual word-order correlations, explained...
Leiden University, 2022. — 491 p. This dissertation reconstructs the history of Alorese, an Austronesian language spoken in east Indonesia, by combining perspectives from oral history and historical linguistics. The social history of the Alorese people is reconstructed through migration stories based on narrative accounts from fourteen Alorese villages. The historical...
University of Edinburgh, 2018. — 826 p. This thesis is a descriptive grammar of Ambel [wgo], an endangered Austronesian (South Halmahera-West New Guinea) language. Ambel is spoken by approximately 1600 people on Waigeo, the largest island in the Raja Ampat archipelago (West Papua province, Indonesia). This grammar is based on naturalistic and elicited data, collected by the...
University of Oxford, 2008. — 512 p. This thesis is a general description of the morphology and syntax of the Biak language. The Biak language belongs to the West New Guinea subgroup of the Austronesian language family and is spoken by around 50,000 to 70,000 speakers in West Papua in the northern part of the Geelvink Bay. The thesis consists of 7 main chapters that cover...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1966. — 980 p. — (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 51). Das jetzt veröffentlichte Buch über den Totenkult der Ngadju Dajak ist der erste von einem in vier Bänden geplanten Werk, worin der Autor das vollständige von ihm in Borneo gesammelte Material herausgeben wollte. Dieser erste Band, umfänglich wie er ist,...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 1975. — 339 p. — (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 73). The work is concerned with the reconstruction of the phonemes of Proto-Malayo-Javanic, the last proto-language which is directly continued by the Sundanese, Javanese, Malay, and Madurese. Part one contains a lexicostatistical calculation of the degrees of...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2020. — xiv, 562 p. — (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 29). — ISBN 978-3-96110-222-8. This book provides a complete analysis of synchronic CV -> VC metathesis in Amarasi, a language of western Timor. Metathesis and unmetathesis realise a paradigm of parallel forms, pairs of which occur to complement each other throughout the language. Metathesis...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2020. — xviii, 452 p. — (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 28). — ISBN 978-3-96110-216-7. This book is the revised version of my doctoral dissertation, which I finished in early 2018. As dissertations go, I was more concerned with getting the details right than with creating an elegant textbook account of the topic, so that eventually I ended up...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — iv, 428 p. — (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 21). — ISBN 978-3-96110-108-5. Information structure is a relatively new field to linguistics and has only recently been studied for smaller and less described languages. This book is the first of its kind that brings together contributions on information structure in Austronesian languages....
Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1979. — 117 p. Not formally an 'about' book but it does touch on the history of certain Mindanao dialects, with Tagalog and English translations. Chavacano or Chabacano is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines. The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of...
Springer Netherlands, 2000. — 262 p. Austronesian languages have long raised interesting questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology. The papers in this volume encompass some of these traditional questions and place them in newer theoretical contexts. Some of the papers also address new issues which add to our understanding of members of this language family on...
University of Hawaii Press, 1971. — x + 89 p. Kapampangan, also known as Pampango, Pampangan and Pampangueño, is an Austronesian language of the Philippine type, spoken in the central plain of Luzon. The present study is based upon data gathered during approximately six months in the town of Bacolor.
Kantor Bahasa Provinsi Maluku Utara, 2014. — 220 p. Фокаая Н., Амрис А. Л., Таха М., Фебринингсих Ф. Языки региона Северное Малуку (на индонез. яз.) Северное Малуку (также Северное Молукку) — провинция Индонезии, расположенная на северных островах Молуккского архипелага. Самый большой остров провинции — Хальмахера, который, однако, редко заселён. Самая счастливая провинция в...
University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. — xix + 359 p. Almost one-quarter of the world's languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific, making it linguistically the most complex region in the world. Although numerous technical books on groups of Pacific or Australian languages have been published, and descriptions of individual languages are available, until now there has been no...
Linguistic Society of the Philippines, 1977. — iv + 354 p. Tboli is an Austronesian language spoken over a wide area in the province of South Cotabato, southern Mindanao. The aim of this grammar is to make available to linguists and to anyone else interested, data and a suggested analysis for a little known language of the world.
Lincom Europa, 1991. — (Languages of The World/Materials 130). Ratahan is an endangered Austronesian language spoken in the district of Ratahan, province of North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is estimated that now only 500 good speakers of Ratahan are left, mostly over 60 years of age, and a few thousand semi-speakers. Ratahan is located in the midst of the Minahasa region but...
John Benjamins Publishing, 1988. — 190 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 19). The present study confronts many of the methodological and substantive issues raised but never fully resolved by Brandstetter. In an effort to reassess the value of his work for contemporary linguistics it examines Brandstetter's methods and results, and applies a modified form of his...
Manila: SIL International, 2011. — 80 p. Tables Abbreviations Map Morphophonology in Tuwali Ifugao Affixation and phonological rules Reduplication and gemination processes Stress placement Verbal morphology, cross-referencing, and NP positioning in Tuwali Ifugao Verbal morphology Cross-referencing system Summary and conclusions The rhetorical function of morphosyntactic...
Manila: Colegio de Santo Tomás, 1922. — 116 p. Вильямор Игнасио. Древнефилиппинская письменность (на исп. яз.) Ancient Philippine scripts are systems of writing that developed and flourished in the Philippines in about 300 BC. These scripts are related to other Southeast Asian systems of writing that developed from South Indian Brahmi scripts used in Asoka Inscriptions and Pallava...
New Haven: Yale University, 1963. — xxii + 93 p. This is a seminal essay by Isidore Dyen (1913-2008), Professor Emeritus of Malayo-Polynesian and Comparative Linguistics at Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, USA). He was one of the foremost scholars in the field of Austronesian linguistics, publishing extensively on the reconstruction of Proto-Austronesian phonology and...
University of Texas, 2007. — 497 p. — ISBN: 0549145214, 9780549145219. This book is a description of the grammar of West Coast (WC) Bajau, a western Austronesian language spoken in Sabah, Malaysia by some 60,000 people. Drawing extensively from elicited data as well as a corpus of compiled texts, I describe the language at its various levels: phonology, morphology, phrase...
Dublin, 1961. Among the treasures in Sir Chester Betty's collections the Batak manuscripts from the island of 'Sumatra in Indonesia hold a very modest place. Neither in age nor in artistic quality can they be compared with the documents of Christian and Islamic art and literature that have made this library famous. Still they are by no means without interest. though none of them...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — 351 p. — (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 239). — ISBN10: 3110259893, 13 978-3110259896. The Oceanic languages, a subgroup within the Austronesian language family, comprise at least 450 languages in the geographical area encompassing Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The articles in this book deal with morphosyntactic...
Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. — viii + 122 p. — (JSEALS Special Publication 1). — E-ISSN: 1836-6821. This is the first JSEALS special publication since JSEALS became a University of Hawai‘i Press publication as of January 2017. The goal of JSEALS special publications is to share collections of linguistics articles, such as select papers from conferences or...
[Dallas, Texas, USA]: SIL International, 2015. — ix + 194 p. — (SIL eBook 63). — ISSN: 1934-2470. This write-up is a descriptive phonology and grammar of Luang, an Austronesian language spoken in the Maluku province of Indonesia. To date there has been very little written about this language. This description is quite comprehensive, dealing with many issues at all levels of...
Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press, The Australian National University, 2009. — xx + 344 p. — ISBN: 9781921536281; 9781921536298. This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and...
Canberra, Australia: Asia-Pacific Linguistics, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, 2016 — xxi + 746 p. — ISBN: 9781922185327. People: Body and Mind is the fifth in a series of seven volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family. Earlier volumes are: vol. 1 Material Culture, vol. 2...
Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, 2011. — xxvi + 576 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 621). — ISBN: 9780858836266. This is the fourth of a series of volumes (first meant to be 5, now 7) on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic (POc) language. The major headings under which...
Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2008. — xxviii + 537 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 599). — ISBN: 970858835894. This is the third of a set of five (actually, seven) volumes bringing together the result of recent work on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic (POc) language. Volume 3 deals with flora,...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2007. — xviii + 399 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 545). — ISBN: 978-1-921313-18-9, ISBN: 978-1-921313-19-6. This is the second book (already published in 2003) in a series of five (actually, seven) volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language...
Canberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 1998. — xvii + 350 p. — (Pacific Linguistics C-152). — ISSN: 0078-7558, ISBN: 0-85883-507-X (v. 1). This is the first of a set of five volumes (as envisaged in 1996, now 7 volumes) bringing together the result of recent work on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic (POc) language. Volume 1...
Dunwoody Press, 2009. — v, 255 p. — ISBN: 9781931546652. Сборник диалогов и упражнений к филиппинскому языку маранао. Maranao is a language spoken by the ethnolinguistic group of the same name, numbering just over a million speakers in the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur in the southern island Mindanao in the Republic of the Philippines. It is closely related to...
University of Hawaii Press, 2011. — 498 p. — (Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications)
There are few published grammars of the languages of the Admiralty Islands. This work makes available valuable data compiled by Po Minis and the New Britain missionary P. Josef Meier for the Titan language. Meier published seventy-five texts in Titan (the corpus is about 25,000 words) in the...
Utrecht: LOT, 2005. — XX, 520 p. — ISBN: 90-76864-73-X. This work contains the first comprehensive description of Begak (Ida’an), an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 6,000 speakers at the east coast of Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia. The language currently consists of two dialects: Ida’an, which has the largest number of speakers, and Begak, which is the focus of this...
Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia: Universitas Udayana, 2011. — 154 p.
И Команг Ардана. Общие прото-австронезийские элементы в фонетике языков каили и ума на центральном Сулавеси (на индонез. яз.)
Daftar Isi:
Pendahuluan.
Kajian Pustaka, Konsep, Landasan Teori, dan Model Penelitian.
Metode Penelitian.
Proto-Austronesia, Bahasa Kaili, Bahasa Uma: Gambaran Fonem.
Pewarisan...
Manila: Bureau of Public Printing, 1905. — 146 p. Шеерер О., Миллер Э. Набалойский диалект, Батаки Палавана, том 2, части 2 и 3 (на англ. яз.) The Ibaloi Igorot. The Nabaloi Alphabet. The Article. The Noun. The Adjective. The Pronoun. Adverbs and adverbial expressions. Prepositions. Conjunctions. The Verb. Interjections. Writing and popular songs. Nabaloi Vocabulary. The Bataks...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1919. — pp. 187-206. Мосс К.Р., Крёбер А.Л. Набалойские (ибалойские) песни (на англ. и ибалойск. яз.) Words and Translations. Transcriptions. Analysis of Music. Comparisons.
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1965. — 151 с. — (Языки народов Азии и Африки)
Предлагаемая читателю работа В. Д. Аракина «Индонезийские языки» входит в серию очерков по языкам народов Азии и Африки, публикуемую Институтом народов Азии Академии наук СССР.
Отдельные очерки посвящены характеристике языковых групп, как, например: «Языки Индии, Пакистана, Цейлона и...
Routledge, 2011. — 941 p. — (Routledge Language Family Series). The Oceanic Languages form a closed subgroup within one of the world’s largest language families, Austronesian. There are between 1000 and 1500 Austronesian languages (estimates vary), with so much structural diversity that they are best handled in two volumes, one on the Oceanic and one on the non-Oceanic...
Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 1990. — 70 p.
Хусни Ю., Эм Аджиес М.А., Зайнуддин Я. Система повторов в языке тамианг (на индонез. яз.)
Daftar Isi:
Pendahuluan.
Kerangka Teori.
Sistem Perulangan.
Kesimpulan.
Lampiran-lampiran.
Bahasa Tamiang adalah bahasa yang ditutur oleh sekelompok masyarakat di aceh bagian timur laut yang langsung berbatasan...
Losana: Imprenta de Jaunin Hermanos, 1884. — 30 p.
Пардо де Тавера Т. О вкладе в изучение древнефилиппинской слоговой письменности (на исп. яз.)
Cuando los españoles llegaron al Archipiélago Filipino, encontraron que sus habitantes de raza malaya
llamados Indios, tenian sus alfabetos y su manera de escribir propia.
Si bien su estudio parece poco interesante, porqué tal...
Malabón: El Asilo de Huérfanos, 1895. — 110 p.
Марсилья и Мартин С. Исследование по древнефилиппинской слоговой письменности (на исп. яз.)
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Los que se han ocupado en los antiguos alfabetos filipinos no han dicho más que los Misioneros.
Alfabetos.
¿Son muchos o uno sólo los alfabetos filipinos?
¿Cuál es el auténtico y legítimo?
Modo de suplir las letras...
University of Hawaii Press, 1971. — 1011 c.
Капампанганский язык, или просто капампанган — один из крупнейших языков Филиппин. Известен также под названиями: пампанго, пампангуэно и аманунг-сисуан (последнее буквально значит «язык, вскормленный грудью», то есть то же, что и «родной язык»).
Название языка происходит от слова pampang, что означает «берег реки». История языка до...
Lincom Europa: 2007. — 194 p.
This book describes a grammar (mainly morphology and syntax) of the Lewoingu dialect of Lamaholot, an Austronesian language (Central-Malayo-Polynesian subgroup) spoken by 150,000 ~ 200,000 people on the eastern tip of Flores and the surrounding area in eastern Indonesia. Lamaholot has 35 dialects, and although there are some descriptions and...
Mouton De Gruyter, 1999. — 604 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 20). — ISBN10: 3110161885; ISBN13: 978-3110161885. This text presents a comprehensive descriptive grammar of the Tukang Besi language. In addition to general descriptive coverage of many morphosyntactic phenomena, several aspects of the grammar receive a more detailed treatment.
The Australian National University, Canberra, 2013. — xl; 845 p. This is a revised edition of the 2009 The Austronesian languages, which was published as a paperback in the then Pacific Linguistics series (ISBN: 9780858836020). This revision includes typographical corrections, an improved index, and various minor content changes. The release of the open access edition serves to...
Routledge, 2005. — 864 p. — (Routledge language family series). — ISBN: 0700712860; ISBN13: 9780700712861. Some 800 Austronesian languages are spoken in the area extending from Madagascar to eastern Indonesia and to the north to Taiwan and the Philippines. They vary greatly in almost every possible respect, including the size and social make-up of the speech communities and...
Peace Corps, Manila (Philippines). 1993. — 253 p.
This guide is designed for Ivatan (Ibatan) language training of Peace Corps workers in the Philippines, and reflects daily communication needs in that context. It consists of: pnrase lists for a wide range of daily activities and needs; a list of targeted core language competencies, at three proficiency levels, for those daily...
Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. — 1356 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library 42-1, 42-2) Toqabaqita is an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 13,000 people on the island of Malaita in the south-eastern Solomon Islands. This two-volume grammar is the first comprehensive description of the language, based on the author's field work. The grammar deals with the phonology, morphology,...
Walter de Gruyter, 1998. — 468 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 18). A detailed and systematic description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of Kambera, a polysynthetic Austonesian (Central Malayo-Polynesian) language spoken by approximately 150,000 speakers on the island of Sumba in Eastern Indonesia. Examples taken from actual discourse are included.
John Benjarnins B. V., Amsterdam - Philadelphia, 2010. - 384 p.
Меркадо Р., Потсдам Э., Трэвис де Мена Л. (ред.) Австронезийское и общее языкознание. Сборник статей (на англ.яз.)
Сontents
The role of larynx height in the Javanese tense ~ lax stop contrast
Reduplication in Tanjung Raden Malay
Discontibruous reduplication in a local variety of Malay
Phonological evidence...
ANU Printing Service, Canberra, 2006. — 367 p. Бэлвуд П., Фокс Дж., Трайон Д. (ред.) Австронезийцы. Материалы по сравнительно-историческому анализу языка, этноса, культуры (на англ.яз.) The Austronesians in History: Common Origins and Diverse Transformations Proto-Austronesian and the Major Austronesian Subgroups The Prehistory of Oceanic Languages: A Current View Borneo as a...
Publisher: Manila Date: 2010 Pages: 58 ISBN: 978-971-18-0435-0 This brief overview of the grammar of the Agutaynen language is written with an Agutaynen audience in mind. It is aimed at speakers of Agutaynen who also understand English well, and who wish to explore on a more conscious level the grammatical patterns of their own language. It is written to accompany an...
SIL International, 2012. — 517 p.
It is five years since the print version of this volume was published. For this international electronic edition, new maps in color have been furnished for page 3, and color illustrations for page 10 An addendum to Part I brings the record of Bidayuh language development up to date.
Bidayuh is the name of a grouping of dialects/languages1 that...
SIL International, 2012. — 326 p.
In our description, we take a structural, theory-neutral, approach towards the language, letting the patterns of Balantak inform our description. Questions of language typology only play a minor role, though our description tries to be typologically informed and relevant. We do not include any discussion of comparative issues in the immediate...
Utrecht: LOT, 2006. — xvii, 478 p. — ISBN: 90-78328-10-X. This work contains the first comprehensive description of the Biak language, an Austronesian language spoken by approximately 70,000 speakers on the island Biak and in several settlements along the northern coast and off-shore islands of the Bird's Head peninsula of Papua, Eastern Indonesia. The description focuses on...
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I
Publication date: 2008
Number of pages: 378
Dupaningan Agta is an Austronesian language of the Philippine subgroup which is spoken in northeastern Luzon, Philippines by approximately 1,400 semi-nomadic huntergatherers belonging to the Negrito ethnic minority. The language is endangered, as it is beginning to lose child speakers. This...
The University Press of Hawaii, 1977. — 336 p.
The Yapese reference grammar is a comprehensive survey of the Yapese language. All important aspects of the language -phonology, morphology, and syntax- are discussed at both the phrase and sentence levels of structure.
SIL, 1979. — 130 p.
This study was prepared in the spring of 1977 under the supervision of Dr. Robert Longacre at the University of Texas at Arlington. I am very grateful to Dr. Longacre for his valuable comments and direction, and for his willingness to be available at the expense of his personal convenience.
I owe thanks also to Miss Kathleen Muir, Miss Beth Gieser, and Mrs....
Linguistic Society of the Philippines, 1992. — 183 p. Volume 9 Number 1 Tboli is a language spoken by approximately 80,000 people living in the mountains of southwestern Mindanao, Philippines, in the province of South Cotabato. A pedagogical grammar is a tool for learning. This pedagogical grammar of Tboli has been written to help non-Tboli who would like to learn to speak...
Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines, 1999. — 119 p. — (Studies in Philippine Languages and Cultures. Volume 11 Number 1).
This volume is divided into two parts. Part one consists of 12 Agutaynen language texts, accompanied by a foreword, introduction, and a list of abbreviations. Part two consists of one scholarly article, "Child Giving and Child Receiving in a...
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