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Austronesian and theoretical linguistics /

The Austronesian language family is the largest language family in the world, yet its members are relatively little studied, particularly from a formal perspective. Interestingly, because these languages exhibit typologically unusual properties, they pose important challenges to linguistic theory. A...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mercado, Raphael, Potsdam, Eric, 1964-, Travis, Lisa deMena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today (LA)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Phonetics/Phonology/Morphology The role of larynx height in the Javanese tense ~ lax stop contrast; Reduplication in Tanjung Raden Malay; Discontiguous reduplication in a local variety of Malay; Phonological evidence for the structure of Javanese compounds; Intonation, information structure and the derivation of inverse VO languages; Syntax The case of possessors and 'subjects'; Genitive relative constructions and agent incorporation in Tongan.