Book: Sundanese (Austronesian, Western Malayo-Polynesian language) (fwd)

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Subject: Book: Sundanese (Austronesian, Western Malayo-Polynesian language)

Sundanese
Franz Müller-Gotama
California State University, Fullerton

Sundanese (Austronesian, Western Malayo-Polynesian) is the indigenous
language
of West Java, Indonesia. With approximately 25 million speakers, it is
the second
largest regional language in Indonesia after Javanese. The Priangan
dialect of the
area around the provincial capital of Bandung is considered standard and
is taught
in elementary school in West Java as well as forming the medium, of a
lively, if
limited, publishing business. The book presents a theory-neutral
description of
the essential structure of standard Sundanese, emphasizing its
typologically most
interesting features.

Like its neighbor Javanese, Sundanese has distinct speech levels, which
require
a speaker to select from a different set of vocabulary items depending
on the
relative status of the interlocutors. Sundanese developed these speech
levels
relatively recently as a result of the Javanese hegemony over West Java
during
the Mataram period, and the system is consequently less elaborately
developed than
in Javanese. Sundanese morphology is rather more complex that than of
Indonesian.
 the chapter on morphology will concentrate on the elaborate system of
forming plurals
from nouns, verbs, and adjectives and on reduplication. The chapter on
syntax will deal
with such issues as basic word order and phrase structure, diathesis,
negation, the
use of the topic and focus markers, and coordination and subordination.

ISBN 3 89586 926 0
Languages of the World/Materials 369.
Ca. 80pp.  USD 33 / EUR 30.80 / £ 21.


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