This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family. It brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive account of the historical relations, typological diversity, and varied sociolinguistic issues that characterize this group of languages, including current debates in their prehistories and descriptive priorities for future study.
The book is divided into four parts. Part I deals with historical linguistics, including discussion of human genetics, archaeology, and cultural history. Chapters in Part II explore language contact between Malayo-Polynesian and unrelated languages, as well as sociolinguistic issues such as multilingualism, language policy, and language endangerment. Part III provides detailed overviews of the different groupings of Malayo-Polynesian languages, while Part IV offers in-depth studies of important typological features across the whole linguistic area. The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in Austronesian languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.
Detailed contents Series preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations and conventions The contributors 1: Alexander Adelaar and Antoinette Schapper: Introduction Part I: Historical Linguistics 2: Alexander D. Smith: Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: Its place within the Austronesian language family, reconstruction, and daughters 3: Malcolm Ross and Simon J. Greenhill: Methods in Malayo-Polynesian comparative-historical linguistics 4: Robert Blust: Linguistic approaches to Austronesian culture history 5: François-Xavier Ricaut, Nicolas Brucato, and Murray P. Cox: Human genetic approaches to Malayo-Polynesian prehistory 6: Hsiao-chun Hung and Peter Bellwood: Archaeological correlations for the dispersal of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia, western Micronesia and Madagascar 7: R. David Zorc, Jason W. Lobel, and William Hall: Historical linguistics of the Philippines 8: Alexander D. Smith: Historical linguistics of Borneo 9: Karl Anderbeck: Historical linguistics of the Malayic subgroup 10: Alexander Adelaar: Historical linguistics of the languages of Sumatra, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and Moken Moklen 11: Marc Brunelle: Historical linguistics of the Chamic languages 12: David Mead: Sulawesi historical linguistics 13: Erik Zobel: Historical linguistics of the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages 14: David Kamholz: Historical linguistics of the South Halmahera-West New Guinea subgroup Part II: Sociolinguistics and Language Contact 15: Michael C Ewing and Yukinori Kimoto: Vitality, maintenance, and documentation among the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia 16: David Gil: Multilingualism 17: Tom Hoogervorst: Language policy and the politics of language 18: Peter Slomanson: Malayo-Polynesian contact languages in Southeast Asia and the creole controversy 19: Francesca R Moro and Peter Slomanson: Heritage languages and the study of Malayo-Polynesian diasporas 20: Paul Sidwell: Language contact in Mainland Southeast Asia: Historical impacts on Malayo-Polynesian languages 21: Alexander Adelaar: Language contact in Africa 22: Antoinette Schapper: Papuan contact and its impact on Malayo-Polynesian languages 23: Tom Hoogervorst: Non-areal contact Part III: Areal Overviews 24: Hsiu-chuan Liao and Lawrence A. Reid: Languages of the northern Philippines 25: Daniel Kaufman: Languages of central and southern Philippines 26: Daniel Kaufman: Sama-Bajaw languages 27: Paul Kroeger: Non-Malayic languages of Borneo 28: Bradley McDonnell and Christina L. Truong: Non-Malayic languages of Sumatra and the Barrier Islands 29: Bradley McDonnell, Jiang Wu, Timothy McKinnon, Alexander Adelaar: Malayic languages 30: Marc Brunelle and Joshua Jensen: Chamic languages 31: Jozina Vander Klok: Languages of Java 32: Asako Shiohara and I Wayan Arka: Balinese, Sasak, and Sumbawa 33: René van den Berg and David Mead: Languages of Sulawesi 34: Naonori Nagaya: Languages of Flores and its satellites 35: Antoinette Schapper and Erik Zobel: Languages of Timor and southern Maluku 36: Charles E. Grimes: Languages of Central Maluku 37: Emily Gasser, Laura Arnold, and David Kamholz: The languages of Halmahera and West New Guinea 38: Erik Zobel: Chamorro 39: Erik Zobel: Palauan 40: Penelope Howe: Malagasy Part IV: Featural Overviews 41: Juliette Blevins: Segment inventories 42: Daniel Kaufman and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann: Suprasegmental phonology 43: Mark Donohue: Phonotactics and morphophonology 44: Mark Donohue and David Gil: Morphology 45: Veronika Mattes and Thomas Schwaiger: Reduplication 46: Mark Donohue: Word order 47: Paul Kroeger and Sonja Riesberg: Voice and transitivity 48: Antoinette Schapper and William McConvell: Adnominal possession 49: Gary Holton and Leah Pappas: Spatial orientation 50: Johan van der Auwera, Daniël Van Olmen, and Frens Vossen: Negation 51: Ljuba Veselinova, Leif Asplund, and Jozina Vander Klok: Phasal polarity 52: Alexander Adelaar and John Hajek: Personal pronouns References Index
Alexander Adelaar is Key Researcher in the Sinophon Project at Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic) and Principal Fellow in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities Australia and the Académie Malgache. His research is on the structure and history of Austronesian languages, with emphasis on varieties of Malay and the languages of Borneo, Madagascar, and Taiwan. He is the author of Proto-Malayic (Pacific Linguistics, 1992), and Siraya (a dormant Formosan language; De Gruyter Mouton, 2011) and co-editor of The Austronesian Languages of South East Asia and Madagascar (Routledge, 2005). Antoinette Schapper is Senior Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Researcher at Lacito, CNRS. She is a comparative linguist and writer of grammars specializing in the description and typology of Melanesian languages, particularly within Wallacea. She is currently the principal investigator in the ERC-funded OUTOFPAPUA project looking at the linguistic prehistory of the Bird's Head region of Indonesia.
