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PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of:

The many faces of Austronesian voice systems: Some new empirical studies
I Wayan Arka and Malcolm Ross, editors

Chamic and Beyond: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages
Anthony Grant and Paul Sidwell (eds.)

The phonology – morphology interface in Malay:  An optimality  
theoretic account
Ahmad, Zaharani

A grammar of Gayo: A language of Aceh, Sumatra
Domenyk Eades

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The many faces of Austronesian voice systems: Some new empirical studies
I Wayan Arka and Malcolm Ross, editors
PL 571

The Ninth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics and  
the Fifth  International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics were both  
held at The Australian National University in Canberra during January  
2002.  Rather than publish a single very diverse collection of  
conference papers, the organisers favoured a series of smaller  
compilations on specific topics.  One such volume, on Austronesian  
historical phonology, has already been published by Pacific  
Linguistics as Issues in Austronesian historical phonology  by John  
Lynch.

The present volume represents another such compilation.  It contains  
an introduction by the editors and ten papers on voice in  
Austronesian languages which provide both fresh data and some new  
perspectives on old problems. The papers touch on the many faces of  
Austronesian voice systems, ranging geographically from Teng on  
Puyuma in Taiwan to Otsuka on Tongan, typologically from voice in  
agglutinative languages in Taiwan and the Philippines to voice in  
isolating languages (Arka and Kosmas on Manggarai and Donohue on  
Palu’e), and in approach from Clayre’s areal/historical survey of  
Kelabitic languages in Borneo to single-language studies of voice  
like Davies on Madurese, Quick on Pendau, and the Andersens on  
Moronene. Katagiri and Kaufman each take a fresh look at an aspect of  
Tagalog voice.

2005  ISBN 0 85883 556 8 v + 278 pp
Prices: Australia AUD$69.30 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD$63.00
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Chamic and Beyond: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages
Anthony Grant and Paul Sidwell (eds.)
PL 569

A collection of papers dealing with issues in the ‘Mainland  
Austronesian Languages’, Chamic, Acehnese and Moken/Moklen—not a  
single genetic sub-grouping but a number of related languages that  
have undergone parallel typological restructuring away from their  
Austronesian heritage, converging on a type that places them on the  
southern periphery of the broader Mainland Southeast Asian Linguistic  
Area. In prehistoric times speakers of these languages migrated to  
the Asian mainland from insular Southeast Asia. Over many years of  
independent development plus prolonged contact with mainland  
languages, they have shifted typologically, particularly towards  
reduced word structure, increased phoneme inventory, and more  
isolating syntax. The emphasis of the papers is on historical change,  
particularly in respect of lexical borrowings and the evolution of  
phonological systems.

Contributions to this volume:

Mark Brunelle: ‘A phonetic study of Eastern Cham register’ discusses  
the Cham synchronic phonology in detail, complete with spectrographic  
and other instrumental analyses.

Anthony Grant contributes two papers: ‘The Effects of Intimate  
Multidirectional Linguistic Contact: The Case(s) of the Chamic  
Languages’ and ‘Norm-referenced Lexicostatistics and the case of  
Chamic’ that examine issues around the extent of lexical borrowing in  
Chamic.

Peter Norquest: ‘Word Structure in Chamic: Prosodic Alignment versus  
Segmental Faithfulness’ offers an Optimality Theory approach arguing  
that various changes that occurred in Chamic following the historical  
shift to word-final stress were set in motion by phonetic lengthening  
of stressed syllables.

Pittayawat Pittayaporn: ‘Moken as a Mainland Southeast Asian  
Language’ investigates in detail the historical origins of many  
linguistic features of Moken that have been attributed to Mon-Khmer  
influence, and challenges some of the arguments and assumptions made  
by scholars concerning these languages.

Paul Sidwell: ‘Acehnese and the Aceh-Chamic Language Family’ argues  
that Acehnese should not be treated as a Chamic language, but a  
sister tongue that 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 the fully tonal (and highly sinicised) language it is today.

2005  ISBN 0 85883 561 4 xvii + 271 pp
Prices: Australia AUD$69.30 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD$63.00
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The phonology – morphology interface in Malay:  An optimality  
theoretic account
Ahmad, Zaharani
PL 568

This book gives an exhaustive description on the phonology and the  
interface between phonology and morphology of the Malay language. The  
description primarily focuses on the segmental alternations that are  
derived due the morphological processes of prefixation, suffixation  
and reduplication. It is observed that the phonology of prefixation,  
suffixation and reduplication in the language are quite distinct both  
in character and degree of generality. Processes that are visibly  
active in prefixation are generally not active in the suffixation or  
reduplication, and vice versa. This asymmetry has not been  
satisfactorily accounted for in previous works.

The phonological analysis proposed in this book is couched in the  
theoretical framework of Correspondence Theory, set within the  
constraint-based approach of Optimality Theory. The asymmetry between  
prefixation, suffixation and reduplication is satisfactorily  
accounted for as a consequence of the output candidate best  
satisfying the language’s constraint hierarchy.

2005    ISBN 0 85883 555 X   x + 193 pp.
Prices: Australia AUD$59.40  (incl. GST), Overseas AUD$54.00
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A grammar of Gayo: A language of Aceh, Sumatra
Domenyk Eades
PL 567

Gayo is a regional language of Indonesia spoken by some 260,000  
people in the central highlands of Aceh province, at the north- 
western tip of Sumatra. The Gayo people have historically had close  
ties to the majority Acehnese of the coast, while maintaining their  
distinct cultural and linguistic heritage. Gayo remains the first  
language of most ethnic Gayo to this day, and it is the vehicle for a  
rich oral literary tradition. The language belongs to the Malayo- 
Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family of languages. It is  
typologically unlike Acehnese, but shares certain features such as  
voice with the Batak languages of the neighbouring province of North  
Sumatra. Gayo features a voice system of the type that has been  
referred to as symmetrical, whereby neither actor nor undergoer voice  
can be considered the basic or unmarked alignment. The language also  
features valence-increasing affixes, and a range of verbal affixes  
that mark intransitive verbs to indicate information about various  
different semantic types of events. This grammar is the first  
detailed descriptive account of the phonology, morphology and syntax  
of Gayo. The analysis draws upon data that reflect the cultural  
context in which the language is spoken, and in the appendices two  
Gayo texts with their translations are included.

2005 ISBN 0 85883 553 3 2005 xii + 350 pp.
Prices: Australia AUD$83.60  (incl. GST), Overseas AUD$76.00

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