This volume presents the most wide-ranging treatment available today of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia and their outliers, a group of more than 800 languages belonging to the wider Austronesian family. It brings together leading scholars and junior researchers to offer a comprehensive account of the historical relations, typological diversity, and varied sociolinguistic issues that characterize this group of languages, including current debates in their prehistories and descriptive priorities for future study.

The book is divided into four parts. Part I deals with historical linguistics, including discussion of human genetics, archaeology, and cultural history. Chapters in Part II explore language contact between Malayo-Polynesian and unrelated languages, as well as sociolinguistic issues such as multilingualism, language policy, and language endangerment. Part III provides detailed overviews of the different groupings of Malayo-Polynesian languages, while Part IV offers in-depth studies of important typological features across the whole linguistic area. The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia will be an essential reference for students and researchers specializing in Austronesian languages and for typologists and comparative linguists more broadly.

Alexander Adelaar, Principal Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne,Antoinette Schapper, Senior Lecturer, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

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.

Detailed contents
Series preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and conventions
The contributors
1. Introduction, Alexander Adelaar and Antoinette Schapper
Part I: Historical Linguistics
2. Proto-Malayo-Polynesian: Its place within the Austronesian language family, reconstruction, and daughters, Alexander D. Smith
3. Methods in Malayo-Polynesian comparative-historical linguistics, Malcolm Ross and Simon J. Greenhill
4. Linguistic approaches to Austronesian culture history, Robert Blust
5. Human genetic approaches to Malayo-Polynesian prehistory, François-Xavier Ricaut, Nicolas Brucato, and Murray P. Cox
6. Archaeological correlations for the dispersal of the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia, western Micronesia and Madagascar, Hsiao-chun Hung and Peter Bellwood
7. Historical linguistics of the Philippines, R. David Zorc, Jason W. Lobel, and William Hall
8. Historical linguistics of Borneo, Alexander D. Smith
9. Historical linguistics of the Malayic subgroup, Karl Anderbeck
10. Historical linguistics of the languages of Sumatra, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and Moken Moklen, Alexander Adelaar
11. Historical linguistics of the Chamic languages, Marc Brunelle
12. Sulawesi historical linguistics, David Mead
13. Historical linguistics of the Central Malayo-Polynesian languages, Erik Zobel
14. Historical linguistics of the South Halmahera-West New Guinea subgroup, David Kamholz
Part II: Sociolinguistics and Language Contact
15. Vitality, maintenance, and documentation among the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia, Michael C Ewing and Yukinori Kimoto
16. Multilingualism, David Gil
17. Language policy and the politics of language, Tom Hoogervorst
18. Malayo-Polynesian contact languages in Southeast Asia and the creole controversy, Peter Slomanson
19. Heritage languages and the study of Malayo-Polynesian diasporas, Francesca R Moro and Peter Slomanson
20. Language contact in Mainland Southeast Asia: Historical impacts on Malayo-Polynesian languages, Paul Sidwell
21. Language contact in Africa, Alexander Adelaar
22. Papuan contact and its impact on Malayo-Polynesian languages, Antoinette Schapper
23. Non-areal contact, Tom Hoogervorst
Part III: Areal Overviews
24. Languages of the northern Philippines, Hsiu-chuan Liao and Lawrence A. Reid
25. Languages of central and southern Philippines, Daniel Kaufman
26. Sama-Bajaw languages, Daniel Kaufman
27. Non-Malayic languages of Borneo, Paul Kroeger
28. Non-Malayic languages of Sumatra and the Barrier Islands, Bradley McDonnell and Christina L. Truong
29. Malayic languages, Bradley McDonnell, Jiang Wu, Timothy McKinnon, Alexander Adelaar
30. Chamic languages, Marc Brunelle and Joshua Jensen
31. Languages of Java, Jozina Vander Klok
32. Balinese, Sasak, and Sumbawa, Asako Shiohara and I Wayan Arka
33. Languages of Sulawesi, René van den Berg and David Mead
34. Languages of Flores and its satellites, Naonori Nagaya
35. Languages of Timor and southern Maluku, Antoinette Schapper and Erik Zobel
36. Languages of Central Maluku, Charles E. Grimes
37. The languages of Halmahera and West New Guinea, Emily Gasser, Laura Arnold, and David Kamholz
38. Chamorro, Erik Zobel
39. Palauan, Erik Zobel
40. Malagasy, Penelope Howe
Part IV: Featural Overviews
41. Segment inventories, Juliette Blevins
42. Suprasegmental phonology, Daniel Kaufman and Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
43. Phonotactics and morphophonology, Mark Donohue
44. Morphology, Mark Donohue and David Gil
45. Reduplication, Veronika Mattes and Thomas Schwaiger
46. Word order, Mark Donohue
47. Voice and transitivity, Paul Kroeger and Sonja Riesberg
48. Adnominal possession, Antoinette Schapper and William McConvell
49. Spatial orientation, Gary Holton and Leah Pappas
50. Negation, Johan van der Auwera, Daniël Van Olmen, and Frens Vossen
51. Phasal polarity, Ljuba Veselinova, Leif Asplund, and Jozina Vander Klok
52. Personal pronouns, Alexander Adelaar and John Hajek
References
Index