The genesis of Sri Lanka Malay : a case of extreme language contact / edited by Sebastian Nordhoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nordhoff, Sebastian.

Series:

Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages 3.

Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Malay language--Sri Lanka.

Malay language.

Malay language--Grammar.

Malays (Asian people)--Sri Lanka.

Malays (Asian people).

Languages in contact--Sri Lanka.

Languages in contact.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language Contact , the synchrony and diachrony of Sri Lanka Malay are investigated from a variety of angles: Experts on South Asia, South East Asia, Creole Studies, Areal Linguistics, Typology, and Sociolinguistics all contribute their share to a truly global analysis of one of the most extreme cases of language contact, where the Malays changed the whole morphosyntax of their language in as little as just over three centuries. The genesis of Sri Lanka Malay informs theories of language contact, language change, and 'creolization', as well as sociolinguistics, language policy and planning and a critical analysis of the 'endangered language' discourse.

Contents:

Front Matter / Sebastian Nordhoff

Introduction / Sebastian Nordhoff

Synchronic grammar of Sri Lanka Malay / Sebastian Nordhoff

Sri Lanka Malay: new findings on contacts / Peter Bakker

Known, inferable, and discoverable in Sri Lankan Malay research / Peter Slomanson

Issues of Power and Privilege in the Maintenance of Sri Lanka Malay: A Sociolinguistic Analysis / Romola Rassool

The Lexical Sources of Sri Lanka Malay Revisited / Scott Paauw

Sri Lankan Languages in the South-South Asia Linguistic Area: Sinhala and Sri Lanka Malay / James W. Gair

Hijacked constructions in Second Language Acquisition: Implications for Sri Lanka Malay / Ian Smith

The Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Sri Lanka Malay / Mohamed Jaffar

The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay as a Multi-Layered Process / Sebastian Nordhoff

Index / Sebastian Nordhoff.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"This book is a result of the workshop 'Past, Present, and Future of Sri Lanka Malay' held at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig in November 2010."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283902175

1283902176

9789004242258

9004242252

OCLC:

823389827

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004242258 DOI