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ItemSouth Borneo as an ancient Sprachbund area(UNIV INDONESIA, FAC HUMANITIES, 2021)In South and Central Kalimantan (southern Borneo) there are some unusual linguistic features shared among languages which are adjacent but do not belong to the same genetic linguistic subgroups. These languages are predominantly Banjar Malay (a Malayic language), Ngaju (a West Barito language), and Ma’anyan (a Southeast Barito language). The same features also appear to some degree in Malagasy, a Southeast Barito language in East Africa. The shared linguistic features are the following ones: a grammaticalized form of the originally Malay noun buah ‘fruit’ expressing affectedness, nasal spreading in which N- not only nasalizes the onset of the first syllable but also a *y in the next syllable, a non-volitional marker derived from the Banjar Malay prefix combination ta-pa- (related to Indonesian tr- + pr-), and the change from Proto Malayo-Polynesian *s to h (or Malagasy Ø). These features have their origins in the various members of the language configuration outlined above and form a Sprachbund or “Linguistic Area”. The concept of Linguistic Area is weak and difficult to define. Lyle Campbell (2002) considers it little else than borrowing or diffusion and writes it off as “no more than [a] post hoc attempt [...] to impose geographical order on varied conglomerations of [...] borrowings”. While mindful of its shortcomings, the current author still uses the concept as a useful tool to distinguish between
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ItemHistorical linguistics of the languages of Sumatra, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and Moken Moklen(Oxford University Press, 2023)Critical analysis of recent literature on the classification of the (non-Malay) languages of Sumatra, Java, Bali-Lombok-Sumbawa and Moken Moklen.
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ItemIntroduction(Oxford University Press, 2023)Introduction outlining the content and structure of the book
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ItemLanguage contact in Africa(Oxford University Press, 2023)Historical overview of the contacts between Austronesian languages (Malay, Malagasy) and Bantu languages (Swahili, Comorian languages) in Eastern Africa.
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ItemMalayic languages(Oxford University Press, 2023)A typological overview of Malayic languages and dialects detailing their phonology, morphology and syntax.
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ItemPersonal pronouns(Oxford University Press, 2023)A typological overview of the free pronouns in the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and Madagascar.