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Record Nr.

UNINA9910513583703321

Autore

Edwards Owen

Titolo

Rote-Meto Comparative Dictionary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021

Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

9781760464578

1760464570

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 pages)

Collana

Asia-Pacific Linguistics

Disciplina

499.5

Soggetti

Dictionaries

Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries

Usage & grammar guides

Language: history & general works

linguistics

Historical & comparative linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Speech varieties listed in the dictionary -- Introduction -- 1.1 Purpose -- 1.2 Limitations -- 1.3 Data sources -- 1.3.1 Rote -- 1.3.2 Meto -- 1.3.3 Other languages -- 1.4 Transcription -- 1.4.1 Jonker's transcription -- 1.4.2 Middelkoop's transcription -- 1.5 Structure of the dictionary -- 1.5.1 Out-comparisons -- 1.5.2 Multiple reflexes -- 1.5.3 Fields/parts of entries -- 1.5.4 Loan distributions -- 1.5.5 Finder lists -- Language background -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Rote -- 2.3 Meto -- 2.4 Segmental phonologies -- 2.4.1 Rote -- 2.4.2 Meto -- 2.5 Meto morphophonemic processes -- 2.5.1 Metathesis -- 2.5.2 Consonant insertion -- 2.5.3 Diphthongisation and vowel assimilation -- 2.6 Morphology -- 2.6.1 Nominal suffix -k/-ʔ -- 2.6.2 Possessive morphology -- 2.6.3 Reduplication -- 2.6.4 Nominalisation -- 2.6.5 Verb agreement -- 2.6.6 Derivational verbal morphology -- Historical background -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Sound correspondences --



3.2.1 Initial and medial consonants -- 3.2.2 Final consonants -- 3.2.3 Vowels -- 3.3 Internal sub-grouping -- 3.3.1 Nuclear Rote (NRote) -- 3.3.2 Central East Rote and Meto (CERM) -- 3.3.3 West Rote-Meto (WRM) -- 3.3.4 Meto -- 3.4 Levels of reconstruction -- 3.5 Rote-Meto within Malayo-Polynesian -- 3.5.1 Sound changes between PMP and PRM -- 3.5.2 Sound change and language shift -- 3.5.3 Subgrouping within Malayo-Polynesian -- Rote-Meto - English -- A - a -- B - b -- Ɓ - ɓ -- D - d -- Ɗ - ɗ -- E - e -- Ə -  ə -- F - f -- H - h -- I - i -- K - k -- Ɂ - ʔ -- L - l -- M - m -- MB - mb -- N - n -- ND - nd -- Ŋ - ŋ -- ŊG - ŋɡ -- O - o -- P - p -- R - r -- S - s -- T - t -- U - u -- W - w -- # -- English - Rote-Meto -- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian - Proto‑Rote-Meto -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

This comparative dictionary provides a bottom-up reconstruction of the Rote‑Meto languages of western Timor. Rote-Meto is one low-level Austronesian subgroup of eastern Indonesia/Timor-Leste. It contains 1,174 reconstructions to Proto-Rote-Meto (or a lower node) with supporting evidence from the modern Rote-Meto languages.