This work, divided into two volumes, is the study of the history
of words in the Austronesian (An) languages their origin in
Proto-Austronesian (PAn) or at later stages and how they developed
into the forms that are attested in the current An languages. A
study of their history entails the reconstruction of the sound
system (phonology) of PAn and an exposition of the sound laws
(rules) whereby the original sounds changed into those attested in
the current An languages. The primary aim of this work is to
examine exhaustively the forms that can be reconstructed for PAn
and also for the earliest stage after the An languages began to
spread southward from Taiwan. For the later stages that is, forms
that can be traced no further back than to the proto-languages of
late subgroups, we do not attempt to be exhaustive but confine
ourselves to only some of the forms that are traceable to those
times, treating those that figure prominently in the literature on
historical An linguistics or those that have special
characteristics important for understanding in general how forms
arose and the processes that led to change. In short, the aim of
this study is not just to reconstruct protomorphemes and order the
reflexes according to the entries they fit under, but rather to
account for the history of each fom1 that is attested and explain
what happened historically to yield the attestations.
The scond volume Proto-Austronesian Phonology consists of four
parts. Part H is the glossary, which gives the reconstructed
protomorphemes and cites the attested reflexes in our thirty-seven
languages and in other languages listed according to principles
enunciated in A1.2. Part I provides finder lists from the English
translation and also from the reconstructions made by Blust ACD
(1995b) and Dempwolff (1934-1938). These are followed by the finder
lists for the thirty-seven languages treated in detail. Part J
gives the bibliography, and, finally, Part K provides an index of
all topics discussed in Parts A G."
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