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Uli Kozok <[log in to unmask]>
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Congratulations, John. This is a terrific achievement.

On 30 November 2010 19:00, BAHASA automatic digest system <
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> Topics of the day:
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>  1. Proto-Austronesian
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> Date:    Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:12:56 -0500
> From:    John Ulrich Wolff <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Proto-Austronesian
>
> Cornell's Southeast Asia Program Publications is pleased to announce the
> pu=
> blication of a significant new linguistic reference work
> http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/southeastasia/publications/.
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>  Proto-Austronesian Phonology with Glossary, by John U. Wolff
> 1,146 pages. Oversized.
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> This study presents the history of words in the Austronesian languages:
> how=
>  the forms that are attested in the current Austronesian languages
> develope=
> d from the original Proto-Austronesian. A study of this history entails
> the=
>  reconstruction of the sound system (phonology) of Proto-Austronesian, an
> e=
> xposition of the phonological processes that motivated changes, and a
> prese=
> ntation of the rules whereby the original sounds changed into those found
> i=
> n the currently-spoken languages. The primary aim of this work is to
> examin=
> e exhaustively the forms that can be reconstructed for Proto-Austronesian
> a=
> nd also for the earliest stages after the Austronesian languages began to
> s=
> pread southward from Taiwan. The purpose of this study is not just to
> recon=
> struct protomorphemes and order the reflexes according to the entries
> under=
>  which they fit, but also to account for the history of each form.
>  Volume 1 ISBN: 978-0-87727-532-9  $29.95
> Volume II ISBN: 978-0-87727-533-6   $29.95 (sold as a two-volume set)
>
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-- 
Dr. Uli Kozok
Associate Professor
Indonesian-Malay Language Program
2540 Maile Way, Spalding 255
Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Tel: +1.808. 956 7574
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