Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. What does it mean to be an isolating language? 9
6. Chapter 2. The loss of affixation in Cham 97
7. Chapter 3. Dual heritage 119
8. Chapter 4. Voice and bare verbs in Colloquial Minangkabau 213
9. Chapter 5. Javanese undressed 253
10. Chapter 6. Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual? 287
11. Chapter 7. From Lamaholot to Alorese 339
12. Chapter 8. Double agent, double cross? 369
13. Chapter 9. The origins of isolating word structure in eastern Timor 391
14. Chapter 10. Becoming Austronesian 447
15. Chapter 11. Concluding reflections 483
16. Index 507