Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Owen.

Series:

Asia-Pacific Linguistics

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra ANU Press 2021

Canberra : ANU Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations and symbols

Speech varieties listed in the dictionary

Introduction

1.1 Purpose

1.2 Limitations

1.3 Data sources

1.3.1 Rote

1.3.2 Meto

1.3.3 Other languages

1.4 Transcription

1.4.1 Jonker's transcription

1.4.2 Middelkoop's transcription

1.5 Structure of the dictionary

1.5.1 Out-comparisons

1.5.2 Multiple reflexes

1.5.3 Fields/parts of entries

1.5.4 Loan distributions

1.5.5 Finder lists

Language background

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Rote

2.3 Meto

2.4 Segmental phonologies

2.4.1 Rote

2.4.2 Meto

2.5 Meto morphophonemic processes

2.5.1 Metathesis

2.5.2 Consonant insertion

2.5.3 Diphthongisation and vowel assimilation

2.6 Morphology

2.6.1 Nominal suffix -k/-ʔ

2.6.2 Possessive morphology

2.6.3 Reduplication

2.6.4 Nominalisation

2.6.5 Verb agreement

2.6.6 Derivational verbal morphology

Historical background

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Sound correspondences

3.2.1 Initial and medial consonants

3.2.2 Final consonants

3.2.3 Vowels

3.3 Internal sub-grouping

3.3.1 Nuclear Rote (NRote)

3.3.2 Central East Rote and Meto (CERM)

3.3.3 West Rote-Meto (WRM)

3.3.4 Meto

3.4 Levels of reconstruction

3.5 Rote-Meto within Malayo-Polynesian

3.5.1 Sound changes between PMP and PRM

3.5.2 Sound change and language shift

3.5.3 Subgrouping within Malayo-Polynesian

Rote-Meto - English

A - a

B - b

Ɓ - ɓ

D - d

Ɗ - ɗ

E - e

Ə - ə

F - f

H - h

I - i

K - k

Ɂ - ʔ

L - l

M - m

MB - mb

N - n

ND - nd

Ŋ - ŋ

ŊG - ŋɡ

O - o

P - p

R - r

S - s

T - t

U - u

W - w

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English - Rote-Meto

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian - Proto‑Rote-Meto

References.

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Other Format:

Print version: Edwards, Owen Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary

ISBN:

9781760464578

1760464570

OCLC:

1268255637