Welcome to the Austronesian language family page! Here you will find useful information regarding many of theAustronesian Languages.
General
Typical Features of Austronesian Languages in Central/Eastern Indonesia (Klamer, 2002)
Formosan
Formosan
The Great Diversity of Formosan Languages (Li, 2008)
Formosan Languages and Linguistic Typology (Ross and Teng, 2005)
Towards a Grammar of Takivatan Bunun: Selected Topics (De Busser, 2009)
Central Malayo-Polynesian
Sumba-Flores
Passive Without Passive Morphology? Evidence from Manggarai (Arka and Kosmas, 2002)
Semantically Motivated Lexical Patterns: A Study of Dutch and Kambera Expressives (Klamer, 2002)
Differential Marking of Intransitive Subjects in Kambera (Austronesian) (Klamer, 2007)
Timor-Babar
The position of Makuva among the Austronesian languages of East Timor and Southwest Maluku (Engelenhoven, 2009)
Toward a Better Understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku (Taber, 1993)
Kasi and Bikin. Two Causative Strategies in Melayu Tenggara Jauh (Southwest Maluku, Indonesia) (Engelenhoven, 2015)
Flores-Lembata
Ditransitives and benefactives in Lamaholot (Nagaya, 2014)
Nouns and pronouns in Central Lembata Lamaholot (Austronesian, Indonesia) (Fricke ,2017)
A Brief Grammar of the Eastern Atadei Language of Lembata, Indonesia (Krausse, 2016)
Kei-Tanimbar
The Languages of Kei, Tanimbar and Aru: a Lexicostatistic Classification (Hughes, 1987)
A Phonological Description of Fordata (Marshall, 2000)
Aru
Neuter Gender in the Languages of Aru (Schapper, 2015)
A Morphosyntax Sketch of Kola An Austronesian Language of Aru, Eastern Indonesia (De Winne, 2013)
A Grammar Sketch of Batuley: An Austronesian Language of Aru, Eastern Indonesia (Daigle, 2015)
Central Maluku
Digging for the Roots of Language Death in Eastern Indonesia: The Cases of Kayeli and Hukumina (Grimes, 2009)
Language Death in Maluku. The impact of the VOC (Collins, 2003)
Malayo-Polynesian
Madurese
Extreme Locality in Madurese Wh‐Questions (Davies, 2003)
Temporal and Spectral Properties of Madurese Stops (Misnadin and Remijsen, 2015)
Voice and Register Differences in Madurese (Jeoung, 2016)
Javanese
Language Shift, Gender, and Ideologies of Modernity in Central Java, Indonesia (Smith‐Hefner, 2009)
Javanese Modals (Vander Klok, 2008)
A Note on Extraction From Object Position in Javanese and Other Javanic Languages (Cole and Jonczyk and Lilley, 1999)
Quality of Javanese and Sundanese Vowels (Perwitasari and Klamer and Witteman and Schiller, 2017)
Reduplication in Javanese (Miyake, 2011)
Chamorro
Identifiability and Null Objects in Chamorro (Chung, 1984)
Transitivity, Ergativity, and Topicality in Chamorro Narrative Discourse (Cooreman, 1982)
Morphosyntactic Evidence for the Position of Chamorro in the Austronesian Language Family (Reid, 2002)
Celebic
Typical Features of Austronesian Languages in Central/Eastern Indonesia (Klamer, 2002)
Language Kinship between Tulambatu and Tolaki Language in North Konawe (Hanna and Mursidin and Jannah, 2018)
28 Kinship Terms in Bungku-Tolaki Languages: Inheritance, Innovation and Borrowing (Mead, 2009)
Ilocano
A Phonological Sketch of Ilocano (Yamamoto, 2017)
Reduplication and Syllabification in Ilocano (Hayes and Abad, 1989)
Analyzing Ilokano Pseudoclefts (Rafal, 2009)
Tagalog (Filipino)
Phase Edge and Extraction: A Tagalog Case Study (Rackowski and Richards, 2005)
Antipassive and Ergativity in Tagalog (Aldridge, 2012)
Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog (Travis, 2005)
Syntactic Features of Tagalog Verbs (Kess, 1967)
Cebuano
Semantic Change of the Selected Cebuano Words (Maxilom, 2008)
Ang Marks the What?: An Analysis of Noun Phrase Markers in Cebuano (Parnes, 2011)
A Study on the Behavior of Cebuano Pronouns in Discourse (Tanangkingsing, 2013)
Malay (Malaysian/Indonesian)
Basic Copula Clauses in Indonesian (Moeljadi and Bond and da Costa, 2016)
How Words can be Misleading: A Study of Syllable Timing and “Stress” in Malay (Mohd Don and Yong and Knowles, 2008)
The Typology of Wh‐Movement, Wh‐Questions in Malay (Cole and Hermon, 1998)
Acehnese
Subjects in Acehnese and the Nature of the Passive (Legate, 2012)
An Instrumental Analysis of Acehnese Oral Vowels (Pillai and Yusuf, 2012)
Two Types of Anti Causatives in Acehnese (Ko, 2009)
Batak
Phonetic Experiments on the Word and Sentence Prosody of Betawi Malay and Toba Batak (Roosman, 2006)
Multiple Extraction and Voice in Toba Batak (Erlewine, 2016)
Acoustic Investigation of the Vowel Systems of Buginese and Toba Batak (Podesva and Adisasmito-Smith, 1999)
Sudanese
Sundanese Complementation (Kurniawan, 2013)
Quality of Javanese and Sundanese Vowels (Perwitasari and Klamer and Witteman and Schiller, 2017)
Balinese
Control and Complex Arguments in Balinese (Arka and Simpson, 1998)
Topics in the Phonology and Morphosyntax of Balinese Based on the Dialect of Singaraja, North Bali (Clynes, 1995)
Balinese Morphosyntax: a Lexical-Functional Approach (Arka, 2003)
Buginese
Bugis and Makasar : Two Short Grammars (Macknight, 2012)
Voice in Bugis: An RRG Perspective (Laskowske, 2016)
Malagasy
Malagasy Clause Structure (Paul, 2000)
Malagasy Control and Its Theoretical Implications (Polinsky and Potsdam ,2004)
Agents and Causes in Malagasy and Tagalog (Travis, 2005)
Makassarese
Voice, Valence and Focus in Makassarese (Jukes, 2013)
Interaction of Phonology and Morphology in Maltese and Makassarese Clitics (Shwayder, 2014)
Aspectual and Modal Clitics in Makassarese (Jukes, 2013)
Bugis and Makasar : Two Short Grammars (Macknight, 2012)
Hiligaynon (Ilonggo)
Lost Causes: Morphological Causative Constructions in two Philippine Languages (Spitz, 1997)
A Simplified Stem-Based System Description of Hiligaynon, Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs (Santos, 2013)
Bikol
One Form Opposite Meanings? Diminutive and Augmentative Interpretation of Full Reduplication in Bikol (Mattes, 2006)
Standard Bikol (Epstein, 1967)
Banjarese
The Analysis of Banjar in the Aspect of Phonology (Wahab and Idris, 2017)
Banjarese Verbal Morphology (Sari, 1984)
Inherited Vocabulary of Proto-Austronesian in the Banjarnese Language (Effendi, 2013)
Oceanic
Fijian
The Inherent Vowel Feature: The Case of Fijian (Kuniya, 2014)
Transitivity and Polysynthesis in Fijian (Aranovich, 2013)
Salience and Similarity in Loanword Adaptation: a Case Study from Fijian (Kenstowicz, 2007)
Rapa Nui
Questions and Word Order in Polynesian (Potsdam and Polinsky, 2011)
Linguistic Syncretism and Language Ideologies: Transforming Sociolinguistic Hierarchy on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Makihara, 2004)
Modern Rapanui Adaptation of Spanish Elements (Makihara, 2001)
Marshallese
The Marshallese Complementizer Phrase (Willson, 2002)
Marshallese Yes/No Questions and Remnant Movement (Willson, 2005)
Marshallese Suffixal Reduplication (Byrd, 1993)
Marshallese Passives: Evidence for Two Types of” By Phrases” (Willson, 2010)
Niuean
Niuean Incorporated Nominals as Non-Projecting Nouns (Asudeh and Ball, 2005)
Some Notes on Pseudo Noun Incorporation in Niuean (Asudeh, 2007)
The Prosody of Niuean Pseudo Noun Incorporation: A Recursion-Based Analysis (Clemens, 2013)
Deriving the Order of Heads and Adjuncts: the Case of Niuean DP (Kahnemuyipour and Massam, 2013)
Rotuman
The Prosody of Phase in Rotuman (McCarthy, 2000)
An Autosegmental Approach to Metathesis in Rotuman (Besnier, 1987)
Transitivity and Objecthood in Rotuman (Kissock, 2003)
Samoan
Alternative Semantics for Focus and Questions: Evidence from Samoan (Hohaus and Howell, 2015)
Genitive Constructions and Agency in Samoan Discourse (Duranti and Ochs, 1990)
The Distribution of Unmarked Cases in Samoan (Collins, 2014)
The Word-Level Prosody of Samoan (Zuraw and Kristine and Orfitelli, 2014)
Māori
Topic and Focus in a Head-Initial Language: Maori (Pearce, 1999)
Māori Subject Extraction and the Intervention of Predicate Phrases (Douglas, 2017)
Maximal Words and the Maori Passive (De Lacy, 2004)
Tahitian
The Syntax of the Tahitian Actor Emphatic Construction (Potsdam and Polinsky, 2012)
Deriving a Description of the Early 19th Century Tahitian Diphthong Through and Analysis of Contemporary Poetic Texts (Meyer, 2005)
A Preliminary Look at Exceptives in Tahitian (Potsdam and Polinsky, 2017)
Hawaiian
Variation and Change in Hawaii Creole Vowels (Grama, 2015)
The Morpho-syntax of Hawaiian Valency Morphology (Medeiros, 2017)
Melodies of Hawaiʻi: The Relationship Between Hawaiʻi Creole English and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Prosody (Murphy, 2013)
Tongan
The Phonetics and Phonology of” Definitive Accent” in Tongan (Anderson and Otsuka, 2006)
Phonetics of Tongan Stress (Garellek and White, 2015)
Functional Projections and Non-Local Relations in Tongan Nominal Phrases (Macdonald, 2014)