The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9780198807353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 1008 str.

O autorze

Alexander Adelaar is Key Researcher in the Sinophon Project at Palacky University in Olomouc (Czech Republic) and Principal Fellow in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities Australia and the Académie Malgache. His research is on the structure and history of Austronesian languages, with emphasis on varieties of Malay and the languages of Borneo, Madagascar, and Taiwan. He is the author of Proto-Malayic (Pacific Linguistics, 1992), and Siraya (a dormant Formosan language; De Gruyter Mouton, 2011) and co-editor of The Austronesian Languages of South East Asia and Madagascar (Routledge, 2005). Antoinette Schapper is Senior Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and Researcher at Lacito, CNRS. She is a comparative linguist and writer of grammars specializing in the description and typology of Melanesian languages, particularly within Wallacea. She is currently the principal investigator in the ERC-funded OUTOFPAPUA project looking at the linguistic prehistory of the Bird's Head region of Indonesia.