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Message 1: Descriptive Malay GrammarsDate: 20-Sep-2004From: Jochen Leidner <jochen.leidner ed.ac.uk>Subject: Descriptive Malay Grammars A few weeks ago I asked on the LINGUIST List about descriptive grammars for the Malay grammar that might be useful to computational linguists. Thanks very much to all replies. Here is my current list of results: [1] --- (1947?). Teach Yourself Malay. sine loc. [potentially this is by M. B. Lewis (1963), London: English Universities Press Ltd.] [2] Alsagoff, L. (1992). Topic in Malay: The Other Subject. PhD thesis, Stanford University. [3] Darjowidjojo, Soenjono (1978). Sentence Patterns of Indonesian. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii. [4] Karim, Nik Safiah (1995). Malay Grammar for Academics and Professionals. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. [5] Marsden, William (1812). A grammar of the Malayan language. [6] Mintz, Malcolm W. (2002). Student's Grammar of Malay and Indonesian [7] Sneddon, Jim N. (1996). Indonesian: A Comprehensive Grammar. London: Routledge. [8] Willett, M. L. (1993). Object Preposed Constructions in Malay. Master's thesis, St. John's Memorial University of Newfoundland. Some comments: ============== ''There are quite a few grammars around, but most of them are not very useful. The best I know is J.N.Sneddon (1996) Indonesian: a comprehensive grammar (Routledge). To use it for Malay you have to be aware of the differences in usage between Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. Another good one from an unlikely source is the Teach Yourself Malay, which came out in about 1947. I am working with a colleague from the University of Malaya to produce a corpus-based grammar of Malay. We [at Lancaster] have so far processed about 2.5M words, and developed a tagger and rudimentary parser. Jim Sneddon's book stands up well when tested against the corpus data.'' ''You might want to check out Malay Grammar for Academics and Professionals, by Nik Safiah Karim. It's a 1995 book, published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. ISBN: 983-62-4070-5.'' ''In regards to your inquiry about grammars of Standard Malay, I can offer the following references, two on Malay and another on Indonesian: 1) Two excellent dissertations on Malay morphosyntax: a. Alsagoff, L. (1992). Topic in Malay: The Other Subject. Doctoral Dissertation, Stanford University. b. Willett, M. L. (1993). Object Preposed Constructions in Malay. Master's Thesis, St. John's Memorial University of Newfoundland.'' ''2) A superb book by Soenjono Darjowidjojo, considered the leading authority on Indonesian grammar: Darjowidjojo, S. (1978). Sentence Patterns of Indonesian. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii.'' Thanks again for all comments and suggestions. Acknowledgements. ================= Ann Delilkan, University of Pennsylvania/New York University Andrew Hippisley, University of Surrey Gerry Knowles, Lancaster University Whitney Postman, National Institutes of Health Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Description; Text/Corpus Linguistics Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue |