Studies in Austronesian linguistics / edited by Richard McGinn ; associate editors, James Coady, Marmo Soemarmo ; assistant editor, Philip Hubbard.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

McGinn, Richard, 1939-

Ohio University. Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Ohio University. Department of Linguistics.

Conference Name:

Eastern Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (3rd : 1983 : Athens, Ohio)

Series:

Monographs in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 76.

Monographs in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 76

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austronesian languages--Congresses.

Austronesian languages.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 492 pages : illustrations, charts ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1988.

Summary:

This volume consists of seventeen articles by scholars including Robert Blust, Paul Hopper, A. L. Becker, Sarah Bell, J. C. Catford, Talmy Givon, J. W. M. Verharr and John U. Wolff. Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilokano, Chamorro, Malay, Old Malay, Javanese, Old Javanese, Indonesian, Niasese, Loniu, and Niuean are some of the languages discussed in the study. The essays explore the issues of ergativity in Western Austronesian languages, historical morphology, phonology, phonetics and morphophonemics.

Contents:

Part 1 Historical/Comparative

1. Beyond the Morpheme: Austronesian Root Theory and Related Matters / Robert A. Blust 3

2. How Does Meaning Make Sound Change? / Keith McCune 91

3. The PAN Consonant System / John U. Wolff 125

Part 2 Phonetics

4. Notes on the Phonetic of Nias / John C. Catford 151

5. Javanese Intervocalic Stop Phonemes: The Light/Heavy Distinction / Joel L. Fagan 173

Part 3 Phonology and Morphology

6. Cara Tengger: Notes on a Non-Standard Dialect of Javanese / Nancy J. Smith-Hefner 203

7. Vowel Harmony and Affixation in Loniu / Patricia J. Hamel 235

Part 4 Syntax

8. Raising and Binding in Niuean / Juliette Levin, Diane Massam 253

9. Government and Case in Tagalog / Richard McGinn 275

10. Antipassives and Causatives in Ilokano: Evidence for an Ergative Analysis / Donna B. Gerdts 295

11. Ergative Analysis for Philippine Languages: An Analysis / Videa P. De Guzman 323

12. Syntactic Ergativity in Contemporary Indonesian / John W. M. Verhaar 347

Part 5 Discourse

13. The Discourse Definition of Ergativity: A Study of Chamorro and Tagalog Texts / Ann M. Coorman, Barbara Fox, Talmy Givon 387

14. Voice and Foreground/Background in Cebuano / Sarah J. Bell 427

15. How Ergative is Malay? / Paul J. Hopper 441

16. Topicality and Verbs Encoding Two Arguments in Bahasa Indonesia / Amy J. Uhrbach 455

17. Binding Wild Words: Cohesion in Old Javanese Prose / A. L. Becker, Thomas Hunter 475.

Notes:

"Prepared in association with the Department of Linguistics, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio."--t.p. verso.

Text contains a selection of revised papers originally presented at the Third Eastern Conference on Austronesian Linguistics held in Athens, Ohio, on May 6-7, 1983.

Includes bibliographies.

ISBN:

0896801373

OCLC:

15629853