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Book SynopsisAustroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of diachronic Austroasiatic syntax, most of which contain new hypotheses, and several address topics that have never been dealt with before in print, such as clause structure and word order in the proto-language, and reconstruction of Munda morphology successfully integrating it into Austroasiatic language history. Also included is a list of proto-AA grammatical words with evaluative and contextualizing comments.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Austroasiatic Syntax in Diachronic and Areal Perspective Paul Sidwell, Mathias Jenny and Mark Alves Part 1 Syntactic Reconstruction 1 Verb-Initial Structures in Austroasiatic Languages Mathias Jenny 2 Initial Steps in Reconstructing Proto-Vietic Syntax Mark Alves 3 Nicobarese Comparative Syntax Paul Sidwell Part 2 Northern Austroasiatic Word Order 4 Verb-Initial Order, Gender, and Diachrony in Khasian Hiram Ring 5 Word Order in the Wa Languages Atsushi Yamada Part 3 Munda 6 Proto-Munda Prosody, Morphotactics and Morphosyntax in South Asian and Austroasiatic Contexts Gregory Anderson 7 The Proto-Munda Predicate and the Austroasiatic Language Family Felix Rau 8 Proto-Kherwarian Negation, TAM and Person-Indexing Interdependencies Bikram Jora and Gregory Anderson 9 Relative Clauses in Santali: A Matching Analysis Approach Mayuri Dilip, Rajesh Kumar, Kārumūri V. Subbārāo, G. Uma Maheshwar Rao and Martin Everaert Part 4 Grammatical Lexicon 10 Grammatical Words in Austroasiatic: An Annotated Comparative Vocabulary with Reconstructions Mark Alves, Mathias Jenny and Paul Sidwell Index
