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Conference Paper: The eastern edge of Southeast Asia?: a linguistic area seen from its fringe
Title | The eastern edge of Southeast Asia?: a linguistic area seen from its fringe |
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Issue Date | 2013 |
Publisher | Berkeley Linguistics Society. |
Citation | The 39th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS), Berkeley, CA., 16-17 February 2013. In Conference Proceedings, 2013, p. 15 How to Cite? |
Abstract | We address the question of the categoriality of Southeast Asia as a linguistic area by examining
a language that can be argued to be on its very fringe, Iha. Iha is spoken on the western edge of New Guinea, and participates in many ways in the typological norms of the New Guinea mainland.
It is, however, very much an outlier in the linguistic milieu in which it is found, with a number of languages of the Onin peninsula showing characteristics more typical of (mainland) Southeast Asia; indeed, in some ways even Iha shows features that would be at home in Southeast Asia.
We discuss the linguistic features that have been used to characterise Southeast Asia as a linguistic
area, and compare their distribution across the archipelago that separates Iha from the
Asian mainland. We discuss the need to examine different kinds of features separately: different
kinds of linguistic features (reflecting different social interactions) will have their own histories. |
Description | 370 Dwinelle: Languages of Southeast Asia |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/197908 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Donohue, M | - |
dc.contributor.author | Donohue, CJ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-05T03:24:41Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-05T03:24:41Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 39th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS), Berkeley, CA., 16-17 February 2013. In Conference Proceedings, 2013, p. 15 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/197908 | - |
dc.description | 370 Dwinelle: Languages of Southeast Asia | - |
dc.description.abstract | We address the question of the categoriality of Southeast Asia as a linguistic area by examining a language that can be argued to be on its very fringe, Iha. Iha is spoken on the western edge of New Guinea, and participates in many ways in the typological norms of the New Guinea mainland. It is, however, very much an outlier in the linguistic milieu in which it is found, with a number of languages of the Onin peninsula showing characteristics more typical of (mainland) Southeast Asia; indeed, in some ways even Iha shows features that would be at home in Southeast Asia. We discuss the linguistic features that have been used to characterise Southeast Asia as a linguistic area, and compare their distribution across the archipelago that separates Iha from the Asian mainland. We discuss the need to examine different kinds of features separately: different kinds of linguistic features (reflecting different social interactions) will have their own histories. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Berkeley Linguistics Society. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | BLS-39: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 39th Annual Meeting, Berkeley, California, 16-17 February 2013 | - |
dc.title | The eastern edge of Southeast Asia?: a linguistic area seen from its fringe | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Donohue, CJ: donohue@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 700001650 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 15 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 15 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |