LINGUIST List 17.315

Mon Jan 30 2006

Books: Historical Ling,Austronesian: Grant, Sidwell (Eds)

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Directory         1.    Julie Manley, Chamic and Beyond: Grant, Sidwell (Eds)
Message 1: Chamic and Beyond: Grant, Sidwell (Eds)
Date: 25-Jan-2006
From: Julie Manley <jmanleycoombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Chamic and Beyond: Grant, Sidwell (Eds)


Title: Chamic and Beyond Subtitle: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages Series Title: Pacific Linguistics Published: 2005 Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
                http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

Editor: Anthony Grant, Edge Hill Editor: Paul Sidwell, University of Leipzig Paperback: ISBN: 0858835614 Pages: xvii + 271 Price: AUS $ 63.00 Comment: In Australia A$69.30 (incl. GST)
Abstract:

A collection of papers dealing with issues in the 'Mainland AustronesianLanguages, Chamic, Acehnese and Moken/Moklen-not a single geneticsub-grouping but a number of related languages that have undergone paralleltypological restructuring away from their Austronesian heritage, convergingon a type that places them on the southern periphery of the broaderMainland Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. In prehistoric times speakers ofthese languages migrated to the Asian mainland from insular Southeast Asia.Over many years of independent development plus prolonged contact withmainland languages, they have shifted typologically, particularly towardsreduced word structure, increased phoneme inventory, and more isolatingsyntax. The emphasis of the papers is on historical change, particularly inrespect of lexical borrowings and the evolution of phonological systems.Contributions to this volume:

MARK BRUNELLE: 'A phonetic study of Eastern Cham register' discusses theCham synchronic phonology in detail, complete with spectrographic and otherinstrumental analyses.

ANTHONY GRANT contributes two papers: 'The Effects of IntimateMultidirectional Linguistic Contact: The Case(s) of the Chamic Languages'and 'Norm-referenced Lexicostatistics and the case of Chamic' that examineissues around the extent of lexical borrowing in Chamic.

PETER NORQUEST: 'Word Structure in Chamic: Prosodic Alignment versusSegmental Faithfulness' offers an Optimality Theory approach arguing thatvarious changes that occurred in Chamic following the historical shift toword-final stress were set in motion by phonetic lengthening of stressedsyllables.

PITTAYAWAT PITTAYAPORN: 'Moken as a Mainland Southeast Asian Language'investigates in detail the historical origins of many linguistic featuresof Moken that have been attributed to Mon-Khmer influence, and challengessome of the arguments and assumptions made by scholars concerning theselanguages.

PAUL SIDWELl: 'Acehnese and the Aceh-Chamic Language Family' argues thatAcehnese should not be treated as a Chamic language, but a sister tonguethat separated and migrated to Sumatra before the emergence of Proto-Chamic.

GRAHAM THURGOOD and ELA THURGOOD's 'The Tones from Proto-Chamic to Tsat[Hainan Cham]: Insights from Zheng 1997 and from Summer 2004 fieldwork'illustrates the development of Tsat from non-tonal Proto-Chamic into thefully tonal (and highly sinicised) language it is today.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Phonetics                             Phonology                             Typology
Subject Language(s): Aceh (ace)                             Cham, Eastern (cjm)                             Tsat (huq)                             Moklen (mkm)                             Moken (mwt) Language Family(ies): Austronesian                             Chamic
Written In: English (eng )

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