Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective

Mathias Jenny

ISBN 10: 9004396950 / ISBN 13: 9789004396951

Published by Brill, NL, 2020

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Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective 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 volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of diachronic Austroasiatic syntax, most of which contain new hypotheses, and several address topics that have never been dealt with before in print, such as clause structure and word order in the proto-language, and reconstruction of Munda morphology successfully integrating it into Austroasiatic language history. Also included is a list of proto-AA grammatical words with evaluative and contextualizing comments.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004396950
• ISBN 13: 9789004396951
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: Annotated.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.49W x 2.06H x 23.39D centimeters 15.49 centimeters width by 2.06 centimeters height by 23.39 centimeters depth
• Weight: 648 grams

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Synopsis

Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective 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 volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of diachronic Austroasiatic syntax, most of which contain new hypotheses, and several address topics that have never been dealt with before in print, such as clause structure and word order in the proto-language, and reconstruction of Munda morphology successfully integrating it into Austroasiatic language history. Also included is a list of proto-AA grammatical words with evaluative and contextualizing comments.

About the Author

Mathias Jenny, Ph.D (2005) University of Zurich, is a senior researcher and lecturer at that university. His main fields of interest are language contact and language change in Southeast Asia, with a special focus on the languages of Myanmar/Burma, on which he has conducted fieldwork and widely published over the past twenty years.

Paul Sidwell, Ph.D. (1999) University of Melbourne, is an Associate at Sydney University and a partner in the firm Language Intelligence (Canberra). His research focuses on Austroasiatic language history and implications for the language and history of Mainland Southeast Asia.

Mark J. Alves, Ph.D. (2000) University of Hawaii, is a Professor at Montgomery College and the Editor-in-Chief of JSEALS. His research has centered on Vietnamese language history, which also encompasses surrounding language groups, including Sinitic/Chinese,Tai, Vietic, and Austroasiatic broadly.