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.
Volume 1 is divided into seven parts. Part A, the introduction,
is composed of three chapters: Chapter One is a description of the
geographical spread of the An languages and a summary of what is
known about how these languages came to be located where they are
now found. Chapter Two is a discussion of the assumptions and
methodologies followed in this study; and finally, Chapter Three is
a summary of PAn phonology, followed by a discussion of principles
specific to a reconstruction of PAn phonology and of problems that
affect phonological reconstruction of the whole family. Parts B-G
deal with the history of each of the thirty-seven languages treated
in detail in this study."
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