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Comparative Grammar and Typology : Essays on the Historical Grammar of the Austronesian Languages (Paperback)

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Comparative Grammar and Typology : Essays on the Historical Grammar of the Austronesian Languages (Paperback)
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The comparative grammar of the Austronesian languages underwent an unprecedented change immediately after World War 2 owing to the use of lexicostatistics the appeal to migration theory and the like and also because of the idea of Formosa being the cradle of the language family. The present book is essentially an attempt at answering the following question: What would the comparative grammar of Austronesian look like in the absence of speculation on speaker migrations and in the absence of the so-called data produced by lexicostatistics and glottochronology? Whereas typology is unable to offer the proof that a given language belongs to a group or subgroup of languages grammaticalization theory can say whether a given state A may have preceded a state B or the reverse and solid arguments are needed to propose a relative chronology between events that would be improbable or even exceptional in terms of the typology of linguistic change. This book revisits central issues of the comparative grammar of Austronesian languages from this angle such as the history of person markers particularly in the 2nd person the genesis of the so-called focus verbal voice system and the typology of sentence structures. There is nothing in these domains that supports the supposition that Proto-Austronesian was very similar to the Formosan languages.

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