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Book SynopsisWhat can the languages spoken today tell us about the history of their speakers? This question is crucial in insular Southeast Asia and New Guinea, where thousands of languages are spoken, but written historical records and archaeological evidence is yet lacking in most regions. While the region has a long history of contact through trade, marriage exchanges, and cultural-political dominance, detailed linguistic studies of the effects of such contacts remain limited. This volume investigates how loanwords can prove past contact events, taking into consideration ten different regions located in the Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and New Guinea. Each chapter studies borrowing across the borders of language families, and discusses implications for the social history of the speech communities.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Lexical Borrowing in Austronesian and Papuan Languages: Concepts, Methodology and Findings Marian Klamer and Francesca Moro Part 1 Ancient and Pre-modern Contact 2 Lexical Influence from South Asia Tom G. Hoogervorst 3 Traces of Pre-modern Contact between Timor-Alor-Pantar and Austronesian Speakers Marian Klamer 4 Phonological Innovation and Lexical Retention in the History of Rote-Meto Owen Edwards 5 The Mixed Lexicon of Lamaholot (Austronesian): A Language with a Large Lexical Component of Unknown Origin Hanna Fricke 6 Entwined Histories: The lexicons of Kawaimina and Maka Languages Antoinette Schapper and Juliette Huber Part 2 Modern and Contemporary Contact 7 Detecting Papuan Loanwords in Alorese: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods Francesca R. Moro, Yunus Sulistyono and Gereon A. Kaiping 8 Multilateral Lexical Transfer among Four Papuan Language Families: Border, Nimboran, Sentani, and Sko Claudia Gerstner-Link 9 Spanish Suffixes in Tagalog: The Case of Common Nouns Ekaterina Baklanova and Kate Bellamy 10 The Structural Consequences of Lexical Transfer in Ibatan Maria Kristina S. Gallego 11 The Effects of Language Contact on Lexical Semantics: The Case of Abui George Saad Index
