Proper names, predicates, and the parts-of-speech system of Santali

Rau, Felix

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“…Note that "word class" is a synonym for "lexeme class" (see Haspelmath 2012: 122-124), meaning that inflection is in principle not defining for classification (even though it may be used as a diagnostic for classification in individual languages). 3 Besides Austronesian languages, Munda languages have also featured prominently in the lexical flexibility debate, see, e.g., Evans & Osada (2005), Hengeveld & Rijkhoff (2005), Peterson (2005Peterson ( , 2013, Rau (2013). 4 The genealogical relation between Austronesian and Oceanic is as follows: Austronesian > Malayo-Polynesian > Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian > Eastern Malayo-Polynesian > Oceanic (Lewis et al (eds.)…”

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Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages

Lier¹

2016

Linguistic Typology

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While word classes are language-specific categories, lexical flexibility remains under discussion. This article investigates this phenomenon in a balanced sample of 36 Oceanic languages, a genetic group that has figured prominently in this debate. Based on a systematic survey of the morphosyntactic behavior of a range of semantic word types in three propositional functions, it is shown how lexical flexibility can be measured and compared across languages and constructions. While Oceanic flexibility is pervasive in some respects, lexical categorization in these languages does not qualitatively deviate from relevant typological tendencies.

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Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages

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Introduction – advances in the study of Munda languages

Peterson

2015

Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics

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South Asia is home to around 500 languages belonging to at least six different genetic stocks: Indo-Aryan, a branch of the Indo-European phylum, Dravidian, Andamanese, 1 Tibeto-Burman, Tai, and Austro-Asiatic, as well as a number of language isolates, including Burushaski, Kusunda, and most likely also Nihali, although there is some debate on the classification of this language. 2 The Munda languages, which are the main topic of the present issue, make up the western branch of the Austro-Asiatic phylum and stretch from the central Indian states of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh in the west through to eastern Nepal and western Bangladesh in the east, being concentrated primarily in the states of Jharkhand, Odisha (formerly known as "Orissa"), and neighboring regions in the states of Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal. Figure 1, from Anderson (2007: 7), presents a general overview of the regions where the various Munda languages are spoken.The eastern branch of Austro-Asiatic, stretching roughly from the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya in the northwest and the Nicobar Islands in the southwest through to Vietnam in the east, is generally referred to as Mon-Khmer. According to Lewis et al. (2015), 169 languages in total belong to the Austro-Asiatic phylum, of which 146 belong to the Mon-Khmer branch and 23 to the Munda branch.There is general consensus that the Munda group can easily be divided into two clearly distinguishable branches, namely North Munda and South Munda. Beyond this very basic division, however, there continues to be some debate over further details, especially with respect to the internal classification of South Munda. Although we cannot go into detail here on these various classifications and the logic behind them, in the following we present a number of genetic

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Proper names, predicates, and the parts-of-speech system of Santali

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Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages

Lexical flexibility in Oceanic languages

Introduction – advances in the study of Munda languages

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