Austroasiatic syntax in areal and diachronic perspective

Austroasiatic syntax in areal and diachronic perspective / edited by Mathias Jenny, Paul Sidwell, Mark Alves.

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 dia...

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Other Authors: Sidwell, Paul (Editor), Alves, Mark (Editor), Jenny, Mathias (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Series:Languages of Asia series ; 23.
Subjects:
Austroasiatic languages > Syntax.
Austroasiatic languages > Grammar, Historical.
Linguistics.
Language and linguistics.
linguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Linguistics
Southeast Asia > Languages > Syntax.
Southeast Asia > Languages > Grammar, Historical.
Southeast Asia
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Austroasiatic Syntax in Diachronic and Areal Perspective / Paul Sidwell, Mathias Jenny, and Mark Alves
  • Part 1. Syntactic Reconstruction
  • Chapter 1. Verb-Initial Structures in Austroasiatic Languages / Mathias Jenny
  • Chapter 2. Initial Steps in Reconstructing Proto-Vietic Syntax / Mark Alves
  • Chapter 3. Nicobarese Comparative Grammar / Paul Sidwell
  • Part 2. Northern Austroasiatic Word Order
  • Chapter 4. Word Order and the Grammaticalization of Gender in Khasian / Hiram Ring
  • Chapter 5. Word Order in the Wa Languages / Atsushi Yamada
  • Part 3. Munda
  • Chapter 6. Proto-Munda Prosody, Morphotactics and Morphosyntax in South Asian and Austroasiatic Contexts / Gregory D.S. Anderson
  • Chapter 7. The Proto-Munda Predicate and the Austroasiatic Language Family / Felix Rau
  • Chapter 8. Proto-Kherwarian Negation, TAM and Person-Indexing Interdependencies / Bikram Jora and Gregory D.S. Anderson
  • Chapter 9. Relative Clauses in Santali: A Matching Analysis Approach / Mayuri Dilip, Rajesh Kumar, Kārumūri V. Subbārāo, G. Maheshwar Rao, and Martin Everaert
  • Part 4. Grammatical Lexicon
  • Chapter 10. Austroasiatic Affixes and Grammatical Lexicon / Mark Alves, Mathias Jenny, and Paul Sidwell.

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