The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford Guides to the World's Languages
Release date:	October 2023
Editors:	Alexander Adelaar (Principal Fellow, Asia Institute) • Antoinette Schapper (Senior Lecturer)
Dimensions:	276 x 219mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	1008
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-880735-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech) Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
LSN:	0-19-880735-X
Barcode:	9780198807353

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