Cantitate/Preț
Produs

The Alor-Pantar languages

Editat de Marian Klamer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 iun 2017
The Alor-Pantar family constitutes the westernmost outlier group of Papuan (Non-Austronesian) languages. Its twenty or so languages are spoken on the islands of Alor and Pantar, located just north of Timor, in eastern In- donesia. Together with the Papuan languages of Timor, they make up the Timor-Alor-Pantar family. The languages average 5,000 speakers and are under pressure from the local Malay variety as well as the national lan- guage, Indonesian. This volume studies the internal and external linguistic history of this interesting group, and showcases some of its unique typological features, such as the preference to index the transitive patient-like argument on the verb but not the agent-like one; the extreme variety in morphologi- cal alignment patterns; the use of plural number words; the existence of quinary numeral systems; the elaborate spatial deictic systems involving an elevation component; and the great variation exhibited in their kinship systems. Unlike many other Papuan languages, Alor-Pantar languages do not ex- hibit clause-chaining, do not have switch reference systems, never suffix subject indexes to verbs, do not mark gender, but do encode clusivity in their pronominal systems. Indeed, apart from a broadly similar head-final syntactic profile, there is little else that the Alor-Pantar languages share with Papuan languages spoken in other regions. While all of them show some traces of contact with Austronesian languages, in general, borrow- ing from Austronesian has not been intense, and contact with Malay and Indonesian is a relatively recent phenomenon in most of the Alor-Pantar region.

This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 47872 lei  39-44 zile
  Saint Philip Street Press – 9 oct 2020 47872 lei  39-44 zile
Hardback (2) 36502 lei  39-44 zile
  Language Science Press – 28 iun 2017 36502 lei  39-44 zile
  Saint Philip Street Press – 9 oct 2020 54892 lei  39-44 zile

Preț: 36502 lei

Puncte Express: 548

Preț estimativ în valută:
6993 7592$ 5997£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 06-11 mai

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783946234678
ISBN-10: 3946234674
Pagini: 476
Dimensiuni: 175 x 246 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.95 kg
Ediția:2. Auflage
Editura: Language Science Press