A Dictionary of the Kedang Language

Kedang-Indonesian-English
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25532-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 786 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1340 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3 Southeast Asia

A Dictionary of the Kedang Language presents the first extensive published record of an Austronesian language on the remote Eastern Indonesian island of Lembata. A special interest of the dictionary resides in the fact that Kedang lies on the boundary line between Austronesian and Papuan languages in Eastern Indonesia. The Kedang entries are translated first into Indonesian and then into English. For ease of access, finder lists are provided in Indonesian and in English. The Introduction situates the language linguistically and sketches the phonology and morphology, as well as the 'pairing' (dyadic sets) in ritual and everyday usage of items of vocabulary characteristic of Kedang.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Samely, Ursula

Barnes, Robert H

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

U.B. Samely, Dr. phil. (1990), Frankfurt University, is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published Kedang (Eastern Indonesia) - Some Aspects of its Grammar (Buske, 1991).
R.H. Barnes is retired Professor of Social Anthropology, Unversity of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford. He has published books and many articles on Indonesian and American Indian topics.