Studies in Austronesian Linguistics: Mis Sea#76

by Richard Mcginn

Overview

This volume consists of seventeen articles by scholars including Robert Blust, Paul Hopper, A. L. Becker, Sarah Bell, J. C. Catford, Talmy Givón, J. W. M. Verharr and John U. Wolff. Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Chamorro, Malay, Old Malay, Javanese, Old Javanese, Indonesian, Niases, Loniu, and Niuean are some of the languages discussed in the study. The essays explore the issues of ergativity in Western Austronesian languages, historical morphology, phonology, phonetics and morphophonemics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780896801370
Publisher:	Ohio University Press
Publication date:	03/31/1988
Series:	Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series , #76
Edition description:	1
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

	Contributors	vii
	Acknowledgements	ix
	Introduction	xi
Part 1	Historical/Comparative
1.	Beyond the Morpheme: Austronesian Root Theory and Related Matters	3
2.	How Does Meaning Make Sound Change?	91
3.	The PAN Consonant System	125
Part 2	Phonetics
4.	Notes on the Phonetic of Nias	151
5.	Javanese Intervocalic Stop Phonemes: The Light/Heavy Distinction	173
Part 3	Phonology and Morphology
6.	Cara Tengger: Notes on a Non-Standard Dialect of Javanese	203
7.	Vowel Harmony and Affixation in Loniu	235
Part 4	Syntax
8.	Raising and Binding in Niuean	253
9.	Government and Case in Tagalog	275
10.	Antipassives and Causatives in Ilokano: Evidence for an Ergative Analysis	295
11.	Ergative Analysis for Philippine Languages: An Analysis	323
12.	Syntactic Ergativity in Contemporary Indonesian	347
Part 5	Discourse
13.	The Discourse Definition of Ergativity: A Study of Chamorro and Tagalog Texts	387
14.	Voice and Foreground/Background in Cebuano	427
15.	How Ergative is Malay?	441
16.	Topicality and Verbs Encoding Two Arguments in Bahasa Indonesia	455
17.	Binding Wild Words: Cohesion in Old Javanese Prose	475