Traces of Contact in the Lexicon
What 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...
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| description | What 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1331672025-07-17T10:00:13Z Traces of Contact in the Lexicon Klamer, Marian Moro, Francesca Southeast Asia New Guinea Philippines Eastern Indonesia Timor-Leste language families Austronesian languages Papuan languages thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics What 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. 2024-01-19T06:23:12Z 2024-01-19T06:23:12Z 2024-01-18T17:12:30Z 2023 book ONIX_20240118_9789004529458_4 OCN: 1359048711 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87067 9789004529458 9789004528932 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/133167 eng open access image/png image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87067/1/9789004529458.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87067/1/9789004529458.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/87067/1/9789004529458.pdf Brill 10.1163/9789004529458 10.1163/9789004529458 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9789004529458 9789004528932 Dutch Research Council (NWO) 277-70-012 VICI Grant Research Project open access |
| spellingShingle | Southeast Asia New Guinea Philippines Eastern Indonesia Timor-Leste language families Austronesian languages Papuan languages thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics Traces of Contact in the Lexicon |
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| topic | Southeast Asia New Guinea Philippines Eastern Indonesia Timor-Leste language families Austronesian languages Papuan languages thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics |
| topic_facet | Southeast Asia New Guinea Philippines Eastern Indonesia Timor-Leste language families Austronesian languages Papuan languages thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics |
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