Alexander Adelaar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 742273 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexander Adelaar |
| PRENOMES | Alexander |
| SOBRENOME | Adelaar |
| ASSINATURA | ADELAAR A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6269-4146 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Introduction Lexical borrowing in Indonesia; Some introductory thoughts
Malay (and Javanese) loanwords in Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy wordlist
Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy language material (1603) consists of a wordlist and short prose texts. It represents a dialect spoken more than four hundred years ago in the Antongil Bay region on Madagascar’s northeast coast, which does not have a documented modern descendant. This chapter investigates Malay and (to a lesser extent) Javanese loanwords found in this material. Most of these loanwords are demonstrably old and can be dated to an era…
South Borneo as an ancient Sprachbund area
In South and Central Kalimantan (southern Borneo) there are some unusual linguistic features shared among languages which are adjacent but do not belong to the same genetic linguistic subgroups. These languages are predominantly Banjar Malay (a Malayic language), Ngaju (a West Barito language), and Ma’anyan (a Southeast Barito language). The same features also appear to some degree in Malagasy, a Southeast Barito language in East Africa. The shar…
Regular sound change; The evidence of a single example
The Neogrammarians of the Leipzig School introduced the principle that sound changes are regular and that this regularity is without exceptions. At least as a working hypothesis, this principle has remained the basis of the comparative method up to this day. In the first part of this paper, I give a short account of how historical linguists have defended this principle and have dealt with apparent counter evidence. In the second part, I explore i…
Who Were the First Malagasy, and What Did They Speak
Austronesians in Madagascar
The history of contacts between East Africa and island South East Asia (henceforth ISEA) is a long one. Based on current research, this history is punctuated by at least three important events. The first of these is the beginning of any contacts between East Africa and ISEA, which dates from 300 BC or possibly earlier and involves the transfer of cultigens (including banana, yam, taro, and rice) as well as boat technology and several other elemen…
Agency, Social Capital, and Mixed Embeddedness among Akha Ethnic Minority Street Vendors in Thailand's Tourist Areas
Malagasy Personal Pronouns
This paper traces the history of pronouns in various regional forms of Malagasy and proposes a reconstruction of Proto-Malagasy pronouns. Four sets of pronouns are reconstructed for Proto-Malagasy: a default nominative set marked with Ø, a topicalized nominative set in which 1st person pronouns are marked with a form *i, a genitive set marked with *=n-, and an oblique set marked with *an=. The development of some pronouns is shown to provide clue…
Malagasy Dialect Divisions
This paper gives an overview of the literature on Malagasy dialect variety and the various Malagasy dialect classifications that have been proposed. It rejects the often held view that the way Malagasy dialects reflect the Proto- Austronesian phoneme sequences *li and *ti is a basic criterion for their genetic division. While the linguistic innovations shown in, respectively, central dialects (Merina, Betsileo, Sihanaka, Tanala) and southwestern …
Malagasy Phonological History and Bantu Influence
In this paper I give a critical assessment of John Wolff's interpretation of the phonological history of Malagasy as it appears in his recent book on Proto-Austronesian phonology. The various aspects of Wolff's approach that I deal with include the development of final open syllables, the spirantization and fricativization of stops and semivowels, the reduction of *-ŋk- clusters, and Wolff's interpretation of the development of Proto-Austronesian…
Loanwords in Malagasy
Much ado about di
1. Diis originally a cliticized form of the third person pronoun dia. 2. Dideveloped from a preposition di, which became cliticized to the root of the following passive verb. 3. Dideveloped from an earlier passive prefix *ni(still attested in seventh century Old Malay inscriptions) through denasalization of initial n-. 4. Old Malay had the verbal prefixes borand di-, but in the seventh-cen tury court language of the South Sumatran inscriptions, t…
Asian roots of the Malagasy; A linguistic perspective
The idea that Malagasy is related to the languages of insular Southeast Asia is very old. It can be traced back to 1603, when Frederick de Houtman published his Spraeck ende Woordboeck, inde Maleysche ende Madagaskarsche talen. This work was basically a textbook for those interested in learning Malay, but it also contained a Malay-Malagasy Dutch wordlist which clearly demonstrated some of the similarities between Malay and Malagasy. But, as Dahl …
Asian roots of the Malagasy; A linguistic perspective
The idea that Malagasy is related to the languages of insular Southeast Asia is very old. It can be traced back to 1603, when Frederick de Houtman published his Spraeck ende Woordboeck, inde Maleysche ende Madagaskarsche talen. This work was basically a textbook for those interested in learning Malay, but it also contained a Malay-Malagasy Dutch wordlist which clearly demonstrated some of the similarities between Malay and Malagasy. But, as Dahl …
Malagasy Phonological History and Bantu Influence
In this paper I give a critical assessment of John Wolff's interpretation of the phonological history of Malagasy as it appears in his recent book on Proto-Austronesian phonology. The various aspects of Wolff's approach that I deal with include the development of final open syllables, the spirantization and fricativization of stops and semivowels, the reduction of *-ŋk- clusters, and Wolff's interpretation of the development of Proto-Austronesian…
Malagasy Dialect Divisions
This paper gives an overview of the literature on Malagasy dialect variety and the various Malagasy dialect classifications that have been proposed. It rejects the often held view that the way Malagasy dialects reflect the Proto- Austronesian phoneme sequences *li and *ti is a basic criterion for their genetic division. While the linguistic innovations shown in, respectively, central dialects (Merina, Betsileo, Sihanaka, Tanala) and southwestern …
Agency, Social Capital, and Mixed Embeddedness among Akha Ethnic Minority Street Vendors in Thailand's Tourist Areas
Malagasy Personal Pronouns
This paper traces the history of pronouns in various regional forms of Malagasy and proposes a reconstruction of Proto-Malagasy pronouns. Four sets of pronouns are reconstructed for Proto-Malagasy: a default nominative set marked with Ø, a topicalized nominative set in which 1st person pronouns are marked with a form *i, a genitive set marked with *=n-, and an oblique set marked with *an=. The development of some pronouns is shown to provide clue…
Asian roots of the Malagasy; A linguistic perspective
The idea that Malagasy is related to the languages of insular Southeast Asia is very old. It can be traced back to 1603, when Frederick de Houtman published his Spraeck ende Woordboeck, inde Maleysche ende Madagaskarsche talen. This work was basically a textbook for those interested in learning Malay, but it also contained a Malay-Malagasy Dutch wordlist which clearly demonstrated some of the similarities between Malay and Malagasy. But, as Dahl …
Much ado about di
1. Diis originally a cliticized form of the third person pronoun dia. 2. Dideveloped from a preposition di, which became cliticized to the root of the following passive verb. 3. Dideveloped from an earlier passive prefix *ni(still attested in seventh century Old Malay inscriptions) through denasalization of initial n-. 4. Old Malay had the verbal prefixes borand di-, but in the seventh-cen tury court language of the South Sumatran inscriptions, t…
Loanwords in Malagasy
Malagasy Phonological History and Bantu Influence
In this paper I give a critical assessment of John Wolff's interpretation of the phonological history of Malagasy as it appears in his recent book on Proto-Austronesian phonology. The various aspects of Wolff's approach that I deal with include the development of final open syllables, the spirantization and fricativization of stops and semivowels, the reduction of *-ŋk- clusters, and Wolff's interpretation of the development of Proto-Austronesian…
Malagasy Dialect Divisions
This paper gives an overview of the literature on Malagasy dialect variety and the various Malagasy dialect classifications that have been proposed. It rejects the often held view that the way Malagasy dialects reflect the Proto- Austronesian phoneme sequences *li and *ti is a basic criterion for their genetic division. While the linguistic innovations shown in, respectively, central dialects (Merina, Betsileo, Sihanaka, Tanala) and southwestern …
Malagasy Personal Pronouns
This paper traces the history of pronouns in various regional forms of Malagasy and proposes a reconstruction of Proto-Malagasy pronouns. Four sets of pronouns are reconstructed for Proto-Malagasy: a default nominative set marked with Ø, a topicalized nominative set in which 1st person pronouns are marked with a form *i, a genitive set marked with *=n-, and an oblique set marked with *an=. The development of some pronouns is shown to provide clue…
Agency, Social Capital, and Mixed Embeddedness among Akha Ethnic Minority Street Vendors in Thailand's Tourist Areas
Austronesians in Madagascar
The history of contacts between East Africa and island South East Asia (henceforth ISEA) is a long one. Based on current research, this history is punctuated by at least three important events. The first of these is the beginning of any contacts between East Africa and ISEA, which dates from 300 BC or possibly earlier and involves the transfer of cultigens (including banana, yam, taro, and rice) as well as boat technology and several other elemen…
Who Were the First Malagasy, and What Did They Speak
Regular sound change; The evidence of a single example
The Neogrammarians of the Leipzig School introduced the principle that sound changes are regular and that this regularity is without exceptions. At least as a working hypothesis, this principle has remained the basis of the comparative method up to this day. In the first part of this paper, I give a short account of how historical linguists have defended this principle and have dealt with apparent counter evidence. In the second part, I explore i…
South Borneo as an ancient Sprachbund area
In South and Central Kalimantan (southern Borneo) there are some unusual linguistic features shared among languages which are adjacent but do not belong to the same genetic linguistic subgroups. These languages are predominantly Banjar Malay (a Malayic language), Ngaju (a West Barito language), and Ma’anyan (a Southeast Barito language). The same features also appear to some degree in Malagasy, a Southeast Barito language in East Africa. The shar…
Introduction Lexical borrowing in Indonesia; Some introductory thoughts
Malay (and Javanese) loanwords in Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy wordlist
Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy language material (1603) consists of a wordlist and short prose texts. It represents a dialect spoken more than four hundred years ago in the Antongil Bay region on Madagascar’s northeast coast, which does not have a documented modern descendant. This chapter investigates Malay and (to a lesser extent) Javanese loanwords found in this material. Most of these loanwords are demonstrably old and can be dated to an era…
History (10 obras) · Linguistics (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Geography (6 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 obras) · Malay (5 obras) · African history and culture analysis (4 obras)