[Sealang-l] New Publication: Austronesian Undressed

[David Gil]

Announcing a new publication:

David Gil and Antoinette Schapper eds.,/
Austronesian Undressed: How and Why Languages Become Isolating/
John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2020.

Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure.This volume 
offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found 
in an "isolating crescent" extending from Mainland Southeast Asia 
through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea.Some of 
the languages examined in this volume include Cham, Minangkabau, 
colloquial Malay/Indonesian and Javanese, Lio, Alorese, and Tetun Dili.

The main purpose of this volume is to address the general question of 
how and why languages become isolating, by examination of a number of 
competing hypotheses.While some view morphological loss as a natural 
process, others argue that the development of isolating word structure 
is typically driven by language contact through various mechanisms such 
as creolization, metatypy, and /Sprachbund/ effects.This volume should 
be of interest not only to Austronesianists and historians of Insular 
Southeast Asia, but also to grammarians, typologists, historical 
linguists, creolists, and specialists in language contact.

https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027260536#chapters

-- 
David Gil
  
Senior Scientist (Associate)
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Kahlaische Strasse 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
  
Email: gil at shh.mpg.de
Mobile Phone (Israel): +972-556825895
Mobile Phone (Indonesia): +62-81344082091

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