Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Malay, Malaysian, and Indonesian
  • 1.3. Methodology
  • 2. Grammatical preliminaries
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. The noun phrase
  • 2.3. The prepositional phrase
  • 2.4. The trigger system
  • 2.5. Transitive clauses
  • 2.6. Intransitive clauses
  • 2.7. Some special clause types
  • 2.8. Clause combining
  • 2.9. Summary
  • 3. Classical Malay
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. The discourse particles pun and lah
  • 3.3. Constituent order in pun-less clauses
  • 3.4. The interaction of factors and inter-text differences
  • 3.5. Basic order.
  • 3.6. Conclusions
  • 4. Modern Indonesian
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. The loss of pun
  • 4.3. The transitive clause
  • 4.4. Intransitive clauses
  • 4.5. Differences between authors
  • 4.6. Basic order
  • 4.7. Conclusions
  • 5. Conclusions
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Other varieties
  • 5.3. The path of change
  • 5.4. The role of contact
  • 5.5. Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.