Issues in Austronesian
historical phonology
John Lynch (editor)
The Ninth International
Conference on Austronesian Linguistics and the Fifth
International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics were both
held at The Australian National University in Canberra during
Januar, 2002.
Rather than a single very diverse collection of conference
papers the conference organisers favoured a series of smaller
compilations on specific topical areas.
This volume represents such a compilation, and contains ten
papers in the area of Austronesian historical phonology. Two
papers by John Wolff concern Proto Austronesian segmental
phonology: the first presents a view of 'the sounds of Proto
Austronesian', the other the Fijian reflexes of these
protophonemes. Uri Tadmor examines the fate of *a in Malay
and other western Indonesian languages. Richard McGinn
describes the raising of PMP *a in Land Dayak and Rejang.
Three papers, two by David Mead and one by Rene van den Berg,
discuss phonological evidence for subgrouping of Sulawesi
languages. Robert Blust deals with vowelless words in Selau
(north Bougainville), John Lynch with bilabials in Proto
Loyalties, and Hans Schmidt with 'temathesis' in Rotuman.
Published: 2003
PL 550, ISBN (Paperback): ISBN 0 85883 503
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Pages: vii + 227 pp
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