Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective

✍ Scribed by Mathias Jenny (editor), Paul Sidwell (editor), Mark Alves (editor)

Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 352
Series: Languages of Asia 23
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume 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 eleven chapters reflect work by 13 leading researchers in Austroasiatic language studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
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 Grammar • Paul Sidwell
Part 2: Northern Austroasiatic Word Order
4 Word Order and the Grammaticalization of Gender 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 D.S. 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 D.S. Anderson
9 Relative Clauses in Santali: A Matching Analysis Approach • Mayuri Dilip, Rajesh Kumar, Kārumūri V. Subbārāo, G. Uma Maheshwar Rao and Martin Everaert
Part 4: Grammatical Lexicon
10 Austroasiatic Affixes and Grammatical Lexicon • Mark Alves, Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell
Index

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