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Proto-Austronesian Phonology with Glossary

By: John U. Wolff

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Proto-Austronesian Phonology with Glossary

By: John U. Wolff

This work, divided into two volumes, is the study of the history of words in the Austronesian (An) languages—their origin in Proto-Austronesian (PAn) or at later stages and how they developed into the forms that are attested in the current An languages. A study of their history entails the reconstruction of the sound system (phonology) of PAn and an exposition of the sound laws (rules) whereby the original sounds changed into those attested in the current An languages. The primary aim of this work is to examine exhaustively the forms that can be reconstructed for PAn and also for the earliest stage after the An languages began to spread southward from Taiwan. For the later stages—that is, forms that can be traced no further back than to the proto-languages of late subgroups, we do not attempt to be exhaustive but confine ourselves to only some of the forms that are traceable to those times, treating those that figure prominently in the literature on historical An linguistics or those that have special characteristics important for understanding in general how forms arose and the processes that led to change. In short, the aim of this study is not just to reconstruct protomorphemes and order the reflexes according to the entries they fit under, but rather to account for the history of each fom1 that is attested and explain what happened historically to yield the attestations.

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Cornell University Press

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1501735985

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9781501735981

An Indonesian-English Dictionary

By: John M. Echols,Hassan Shadily,John U. Wolff

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An Indonesian-English Dictionary

By: John M. Echols,Hassan Shadily,John U. Wolff

This dictionary is meant primarily as a tool for English speakers who need to know Indonesian and who deal with Indonesian writings. The aim has thus been to give comprehensive coverage to forms a foreigner might run across in Indonesian readings, from this era or from the past, but excluding classical Malay literature, Much of the Indonesian written production (written and otherwise) contains slangy, colloquial, and regional forms, and we have not excluded such forms. On the other hand we have confined the listing of dialectical forms only to those likely to be widely known...The dictionary should also be useful to Indonesians who wish to learn English equivalents of Indonesian words, but it has not been developed primarily for that purpose, because many English words can only be defined by a sequence of Indonesian words." from Introduction.

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Cornell University Press

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0801421276

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9780801421273

Indonesian Conversations

By: John U. Wolff

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Indonesian Conversations

By: John U. Wolff

Includes an Indonesian-English glossary (over 1,000 words) and translations of the conversations to English. To order accompanying audiocassette tapes for this book, contact the Language Resource Center at Cornell University (http://lrc.cornell.edu).

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