Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-39695-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 648 g

Reihe: Languages of Asia

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jenny, Mathias

Sidwell, Paul

Alves, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Austroasiatic Syntax in Diachronic and Areal Perspective

Paul Sidwell, Mathias Jenny and Mark Alves

Part 1 Syntactic Reconstruction

1 Verb-Initial Structures in Austroasiatic Languages

Mathias Jenny

2 Initial Steps in Reconstructing Proto-Vietic Syntax

Mark Alves

3 Nicobarese Comparative Syntax

Paul Sidwell

Part 2 Northern Austroasiatic Word Order

4 Verb-Initial Order, Gender, and Diachrony in Khasian

Hiram Ring

5 Word Order in the Wa Languages

Atsushi Yamada

Part 3 Munda

6 Proto-Munda Prosody, Morphotactics and Morphosyntax in South Asian and Austroasiatic Contexts

Gregory Anderson

7 The Proto-Munda Predicate and the Austroasiatic Language Family

Felix Rau

8 Proto-Kherwarian Negation, TAM and Person-Indexing Interdependencies

Bikram Jora and Gregory Anderson

9 Relative Clauses in Santali: A Matching Analysis Approach

Mayuri Dilip, Rajesh Kumar, Karumuri V. Subbarao, G. Uma Maheshwar Rao and Martin Everaert

Part 4 Grammatical Lexicon

10 Grammatical Words in Austroasiatic: An Annotated Comparative Vocabulary with Reconstructions

Mark Alves, Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.