LINGUIST List 19.3280
Wed Oct 29 2008
Qs: Javanese Ngoko-Krama Resemblances
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1. Andrew
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Javanese Ngoko-Krama Resemblances
Message 1: Javanese Ngoko-Krama Resemblances
Date: 28-Oct-2008
From: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy <andrew.carstairs-mccarthycanterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Javanese Ngoko-Krama Resemblances
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Javanese has two vocabularies of open-class items: Ngoko (for use amongsocial equals) and Krama or Krômô (for use when speaking to a socialsuperior). Many Ngoko-Krama pairs bear no phonological resemblance to eachother. On the other hand, some Ngoko-Krama pairs are similar in one ofseveral ways listed by Soepomo Poedjosoedarmo in 'Javanese speech levels'page 64-6 (Indonesia, Vol. 6 (Oct. 1968), pp. 54-81).
Poedjosoedarmo comments: 'The exact rules for the formation of thepredictable Krômô forms are quite complicated and further research willneed to be done before they can be formulated adequately.'
Can anyone tell me of more recent publications on this matter, in Europeanlanguages? (Regrettably I cannot read Javanese or Indonesian.) I willpost a summary.
Andrew
Linguistic Field(s):
Morphology
Phonology
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