Title: Comparative grammar and typology : essays on the historical grammar of the Austronesian languages /
Authors: Lemaréchal, Alain.
Publisher: Peeters,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Austronesian languages Grammar, Historical.; Austronesian languages Grammar, Comparative.; Taiwan languages Grammar, Historical.; Typology (Linguistics)
Contents: At the origins of the focus system: the Formosan languages and comparative grammar of the Austronesian languages -- On the history and prehistory of the article-case markers -- Person markers: the languages of Formosa: archaic or "advanced"? -- Historical phonetics and lexicology: history or geography? -- Protoaustronesian and the Sulawesi and Micronesian languages: final propositions for the reconstruction of the verbal systems, person markers and sentence structure -- A provisional conclusion: system genesis and subgroupings.