{"product_id":"austroasiatic-syntax-in-areal-and-diachronic-perspective-9789004396951","title":"Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAustroasiatic 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210773324119,"sku":"9789004396951","price":144.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/austroasiatic-syntax-in-areal-and-diachronic-perspective-9789004396951","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}