32.1066, Books: Traces of language contact: Fricke

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 20:47:08
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Traces of language contact: Fricke

 


Title: Traces of language contact 
Subtitle: The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/traces-of-language-contact 


Author: Hanna Fricke

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933295 Pages: 595 Price: Europe EURO 47


Abstract:

This dissertation reconstructs the history of the Flores-Lembata languages
(Austronesian, eastern Indonesia) by investigating traces of contact in the
lexicon as well as grammar. Part I fills a gap in the documentation of the
Flores-Lembata languages by providing a descriptive grammar of the Central
Lembata language, as representative of the previously undescribed central
group of Lamaholot varieties. Part II researches the history of the phonology
and the lexicon of the Flores-Lembata languages and provides evidence for both
inherited lexical items and a non-Austronesian lexical substrate. Part III
examines morpho-syntactic features and their history of contact. Eight
structural features of the Flores-Lembata languages which are atypical for
Austronesian languages are described and evaluated on their potential of being
the result of contact with non-Austronesian languages of the area.

Combining this lexical and typological evidence, it is proposed that the
Flores-Lembata languages have been in contact with one or more languages
typologically similar to the non-Austronesian Alor-Pantar languages that are
currently spoken on two adjacent islands to the east of the Lamaholot area.
This contact between Flores-Lembata languages and non-Austronesian languages
of the Alor-Pantar type must have been ongoing since the time of
Proto-Flores-Lembata until after the break-up of the family into subgroups.
Some subgroups have gained more non-Austronesian features than others. This
suggests that the contact of each of the subgroups with non-Austronesian
language(s) must have varied in intensity and length.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Typology

Language Family(ies): Austronesian
                      East Indonesian 


Written In: English  (eng)

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