Comparative Austronesian Dictionary
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Author | : Darrell T. Tryon |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783110127294 |
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Author | : Darrell T. Tryon |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 3564 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110884011 |
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Author | : Owen Edwards |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2021-11-25 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1760464570 |
This comparative dictionary provides a bottom-up reconstruction of the Rote‑Meto languages of western Timor. Rote-Meto is one low-level Austronesian subgroup of eastern Indonesia/Timor-Leste. It contains 1,174 reconstructions to Proto-Rote-Meto (or a lower node) with supporting evidence from the modern Rote-Meto languages. These reconstructions are accompanied by information on how they relate to forms in other languages including Proto‑Malayo‑Polynesian etyma (where known) and/or out-comparisons to putative cognates in other languages of the region. The dictionary also contains two finder-lists: English to Rote-Meto, and Austronesian reconstructions with Rote-Meto reflexes. The dictionary is preceded by three introductory chapters. The first chapter contains a guide to using the dictionary as well as discussion of the data sources. The second chapter provides a short synchronic overview of the Rote-Meto langauges. The third chapter discusses the historical background of Rote-Meto. This includes sound correspondences, the internal subgrouping of the Rote-Meto family, and the position of Rote-Meto within Malayo-Polynesian more broadly. Searchable electronic versions of the comparative dictionary are provided in two formats at http://hdl.handle.net/1885/251618. The first electronic version is a Lexique Pro export of the dictionary. The Lexique Pro file contains the same data and information in the book version of the dictionary, but does not contain the introductory chapters. See the "About Rote-Meto" tab of the Lexique Pro file for more information on this version of the dictionary. The second electronic version is a text file. It is formatted as a tab separated file and is intended to be read in spreadsheet format. This text file does not contain all the data and information in other versions of the Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary and should be used in conjunction with these other versions. See the associated readme for more information on what data is included and excluded from that text file.
Author | : Darrell T. Tryon |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Austronesian languages |
ISBN | : 9783110127294 |
Author | : Robert Blust |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2022-06-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110781778 |
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 discussing some of the theoretical issues that arise in analyzing this data. Following an introduction which presents the topic, it includes a critical review of the relevant literature over the past century, and discussions of the following: 1. problems in finding the root (the "needle in the haystack" problem), 2. root ambiguity, 3. controls on chance as an interfering factor, 4. unrecognized morphology as a possible factor in duplicating evidence, 5. the shape/structure of the root, 6. referents of roots, 7. the origin of roots, 8. the problem of distinguishing false cognates produced by convergence in root-bearing morphemes from legitimate comparisons resulting from divergent descent, and 9. the problem of explaining how submorphemes are transmitted across generations of speakers independently of the morphemes that host them. The remainder of the book consists of a list of sources for the 197 languages from which data is drawn, followed by the roots with supporting evidence, a short appendix, and references.
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Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Peter Bellwood |
Publisher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2006-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1920942858 |
The Austronesian-speaking population of the world are estimated to number more than 270 million people, living in a broad swathe around half the globe, from Madagascar to Easter Island and from Taiwan to New Zealand. The seventeen papers in this volume provide a general survey of these diverse populations focusing on their common origins and historical transformations. The papers examine current ideas on the linguistics, prehistory, anthropology and recorded history of the Austronesians.
Author | : Jared Klein |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 877 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110393247 |
This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of Indo-European Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.
Author | : Andrew Dalby |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 2015-10-28 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1408102145 |
Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.
Author | : Bernard Comrie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1125 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1317290496 |
The World's Major Languages features over 50 of the world's languages and language families. This revised edition includes updated bibliographies for each chapter and up-to-date census figures. The featured languages have been chosen based on the number of speakers, their role as official languages and their cultural and historical importance. Each language is looked at in depth, and the chapters provide information on both grammatical features and on salient features of the language's history and cultural role. The World’s Major Languages is an accessible and essential reference work for linguists.