Comparative grammar and typology
Subtitle: essays on the historical grammar of the Austronesian languages
By: Alain Lemaréchal
Series: Orbis/Supplementa -- t. 35; Orbis (Louvain, Belgium) -- t. 35.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789042922549
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-353) and index.
Table of contents: title: At the origins of the focus system: the Formosan languages and comparative grammar of the Austronesian languages; title: On the history and prehistory of the article-case markers; title: Person markers: the languages of Formosa: archaic or "advanced"?; title: Historical phonetics and lexicology: history or geography?; title: Protoaustronesian and the Sulawesi and Micronesian languages: final propositions for the reconstruction of the verbal systems, person markers and sentence structure; title: A provisional conclusion: system genesis and subgroupings.