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ItemRegular sound change: the evidence of a single exampleAdelaar, A (Faculty of Humanities. University of Indonesi, 2018-01-01)The Neogrammarians of the Leipzig School introduced the principle that sound changes are regular and that this regularity is without exceptions. At least as a working hypothesis, this principle has remained the basis of the comparative method up to this day. In the first part of this paper, I give a short account of how historical linguists have defended this principle and have dealt with apparent counter evidence. In the second part, I explore if a sound change can be regular if it is attested in one instance only. I conclude that it is, provided that the concomitant phonetic (and phonotactic) evidence supporting it is also based on regularity. If the single instance of a sound change is the result of developments which are all regular in themselves, it is still in line with the regularity principle.
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ItemAustronesian LinguisticsAdelaar, K ; Aronoff, M (Oxford University Press, 2017)
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ItemThe amalgamation of MalagasyAdelaar, KAA ; Bowden, J ; Himmelmann, NP ; Ross, M (Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2010)
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ItemThe comparative method in Austronesian linguisticsAdelaar, K ; Klein, J ; Joseph, B ; Fritz, M ; Wenthe, M (Mouton de Gruyter, 2017)This book presents the most comprehensive coverage of the field of IndoEuropean Linguistics in a century, focusing on the entire Indo-European family and treating each major branch and most minor languages. The collaborative work of 120 scholars from 22 countries, Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics combines the exhaustive coverage of an encyclopedia with the in-depth treatment of individual monographic studies.
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ItemWho were the first Malagasy, and what did they speak?Adelaar, A ; Acri, A ; Blench, R ; Landmann, A (Institute of South East Asian Studies, 2017-01-01)
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ItemDialects of Malay/IndonesianAdelaar, A (Wiley, 2016-11-07)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAustronesians in Madagascar: A Critical Assessment of the Works of Paul Ottino and Philippe BeaujardAdelaar, A ; Campbell, G (SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG, 2016)
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ItemMalagasy Genetic Ancestry Comes from an Historical Malay Trading Post in Southeast BorneoBrucato, N ; Kusuma, P ; Cox, MP ; Pierron, D ; Purnomo, GA ; Adelaar, A ; Kivisild, T ; Letellier, T ; Sudoyo, H ; Ricaut, F-X (OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2016-09)Malagasy genetic diversity results from an exceptional protoglobalization process that took place over a thousand years ago across the Indian Ocean. Previous efforts to locate the Asian origin of Malagasy highlighted Borneo broadly as a potential source, but so far no firm source populations were identified. Here, we have generated genome-wide data from two Southeast Borneo populations, the Banjar and the Ngaju, together with published data from populations across the Indian Ocean region. We find strong support for an origin of the Asian ancestry of Malagasy among the Banjar. This group emerged from the long-standing presence of a Malay Empire trading post in Southeast Borneo, which favored admixture between the Malay and an autochthonous Borneo group, the Ma'anyan. Reconciling genetic, historical, and linguistic data, we show that the Banjar, in Malay-led voyages, were the most probable Asian source among the analyzed groups in the founding of the Malagasy gene pool.
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ItemMalagasy Personal Pronouns: A Lexical HistoryAdelaar, A ; Ritsuko, K (UNIV HAWAII PRESS, 2014-12)This paper traces the history of pronouns in various regional forms of Malagasy and proposes a reconstruction of Proto-Malagasy pronouns. Four sets of pronouns are reconstructed for Proto-Malagasy: a default nominative set marked with Ø, a topicalized nominative set in which 1st person pronouns are marked with a form *i, a genitive set marked with *=n-, and an oblique set marked with *an=. The development of some pronouns is shown to provide clues for the internal classification of Malagasy varieties. The Proto-Malagasy pronouns are also compared with external references and higher-order reconstructions, namely pronouns from the closely related Southeast Barito languages in Borneo and Proto–Malayo-Polynesian. Finally, an attempt is made to reconstruct Proto-Southeast Barito pronouns.
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ItemReviving Siraya: A Case for Language EngineeringAdelaar, A (UNIV HAWAII PRESS, 2013)