33.1404, Books: A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay: Lee

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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:56:09
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay: Lee

 


Title: A Grammar of Modern Baba Malay 
Series Title: Mouton Grammar Library  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110745061/html 


Author: Nala H. Lee

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110745061 Pages: 399 Price: U.S. $ 166.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110744927 Pages: 399 Price: U.S. $ 166.99


Abstract:

This book documents modern Baba Malay, a critically endangered
Austronesian-based contact language with a Sinitic substrate. Formed via
intermarriage between Hokkien-speaking male traders and indigenous women in
the Malay Peninsula, the language has less than 1,000 speakers in Singapore
and less than 1,000 speakers in Malacca, Malaysia. This volume fills a gap for
reference grammars of contact languages in general. Reference grammars written
on contact languages are rare, and much rarer is a reference grammar written
about a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language.

The reference grammar, which aims to be useful to linguists and general
readers interested in Baba Malay, describes the language’s sociohistorical
background, its circumstances of endangerment, and provides information
regarding the phonology, parts of speech, and syntax of Baba Malay as spoken
in Singapore. A chapter that differentiates this variety from that spoken in
Malacca is also included.

The grammar demonstrates that the nature of Baba Malay is highly systematic,
and not altogether simple, providing structural information for those who are
interested in the typology of contact languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Language Family(ies): Austronesian


Written In: English  (eng)

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