| Kommentar |
The Austronesian family comprises of over 1200 languages, and covers a vast geographical area in Southeast Asia, as well as Madagascar and Taiwan. Within this family, three typological groups are identified: Philippine-type languages, Indonesian-type languages, and Oceanic languages. In this seminar, we will investigate grammatical properties both within and across these typological groupings, including word order, voice morphology, reduplication, and prosody, through critically reading linguistic articles of various theoretical approaches. Drawing from data on individual languages, we will contextualize these data within the areal-typological characteristics of each group within Austronesian while also relating these features to other language families. The language of instruction will be English. |
| Literatur |
Himmelmann, Nikolaus (2005). ‘The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar: Typological Characteristics’, in Alexander Adelaar and Nikolaus Himmelmann (eds), The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge, 110-181.
Victoria Chen and Bradley McDonnell (2019). Western Austronesian Voice. Annual Review of Linguistics 5:173–95. |
