The Languages and Linguistics of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific - A Comprehensive Guide

Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, broadly the Austronesian world, is home to considerable language diversity. This volume surveys the region, with chapters on Formosa, the Philippines, the major island groups of Indonesia and island Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Chamic languages. Other chapters discuss the syntactic and phonological significance of the region's languages, its pidgins and creoles, and Malay as a lingua franca.

Product details

• Assisted by: Bill Palmer (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Original title: i
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.10.2025
• EAN: 9783110286298
• ISBN: 978-3-11-028629-8
• Series: The World of Linguistics [WOL]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Sprache, Linguistik, Linguistics, Austronesische und Malayo-Polynesische Sprachen, Regional Studies, language contact, Austronesian Languages, FOR000000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, LIT004070 LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian, Linguistic Typology