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Author: Nala H. Lee Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110745151 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 559
Book Description
This book documents modern Baba Malay, a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language with a Sinitic substrate. Formed via intermarriage between Hokkien-speaking male traders and indigenous women in the Malay Peninsula, the language has less than 1,000 speakers in Singapore and less than 1,000 speakers in Malacca, Malaysia. This volume fills a gap for reference grammars of contact languages in general. Reference grammars written on contact languages are rare, and much rarer is a reference grammar written about a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language. The reference grammar, which aims to be useful to linguists and general readers interested in Baba Malay, describes the language’s sociohistorical background, its circumstances of endangerment, and provides information regarding the phonology, parts of speech, and syntax of Baba Malay as spoken in Singapore. A chapter that differentiates this variety from that spoken in Malacca is also included. The grammar demonstrates that the nature of Baba Malay is highly systematic, and not altogether simple, providing structural information for those who are interested in the typology of contact languages.
Author: Nala H. Lee Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110745151 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 559
Book Description
This book documents modern Baba Malay, a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language with a Sinitic substrate. Formed via intermarriage between Hokkien-speaking male traders and indigenous women in the Malay Peninsula, the language has less than 1,000 speakers in Singapore and less than 1,000 speakers in Malacca, Malaysia. This volume fills a gap for reference grammars of contact languages in general. Reference grammars written on contact languages are rare, and much rarer is a reference grammar written about a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact language. The reference grammar, which aims to be useful to linguists and general readers interested in Baba Malay, describes the language’s sociohistorical background, its circumstances of endangerment, and provides information regarding the phonology, parts of speech, and syntax of Baba Malay as spoken in Singapore. A chapter that differentiates this variety from that spoken in Malacca is also included. The grammar demonstrates that the nature of Baba Malay is highly systematic, and not altogether simple, providing structural information for those who are interested in the typology of contact languages.
Author: NALA H. LEE Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 9783110744927 Category : Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.
Author: Library of Congress. General Reference and Bibliography Division Publisher: ISBN: Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries Languages : en Pages : 250
Author: Library of Congress. General Reference and Bibliography Division Publisher: ISBN: Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries Languages : en Pages : 264
Author: Nala H. Lee
Author: Nala H. Lee
Author: NALA H. LEE
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Author: Library of Congress. General Reference and Bibliography Division
Author: Library of Congress. General Reference and Bibliography Division