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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156503103321

Autore

Nothofer Bernd

Titolo

The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic / / Bernd Nothofer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 1975

's-Gravenhage, Netherlands : , : M. Nijhoff, , 1975

ISBN

90-04-28704-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 317 pages) : maps

Collana

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; ; 73

Disciplina

572.082

Soggetti

Proto-Malayan language - Phonology

Asian history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A Revision of the author's thesis, Yale, 1973.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. xv-xix) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The work is concerned with the reconstruction of the phonemes of Proto-Malayo-Javanic, the last proto-language which is directly continued by the Sundanese, Javanese, Malay, and Madurese. Part one contains a lexicostatistical calculation of the degrees of relationship among the four languages and a brief description of the phonology and morphophonemics of each language. Part two is devoted to the reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic phonemes. It shows inter alia that evidence from Malayo-Javanic languages requires the reconstruction of a number of Proto-Malayo-Javanic phonemes which hitherto have not been reconstructed for proto-languages of higher order or the proto-language of highest order, id est Proto-Austronesian. The appendix contains the basic vocabulary lists for the four languages, a map showing previously assumed language boundaries separating Sundanese, Jakarta Malay, Javanese and Madurese, and a revised map showing language boundaries as revealed in the course of the research, as well as Sundanese dialect maps. An index of the Proto-Malayo-Javanic reconstructions follows.