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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Austronesian"”.
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Speech styles in Javanese and Balinese : a comparative study
… and found in Javanese and Balinese, Western Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Java and Bali in the modern state of Indonesia. It looks at the historical relationship between the systems in the two languages, as well as attempting a synchronic description of major structural …
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Speech styles in Javanese and Balinese : a comparative study
… and found in Javanese and Balinese, Western Austronesian languages spoken on the islands of Java and Bali in the modern state of Indonesia. It looks at the historical relationship between the systems in the two languages, as well as attempting a synchronic description of major structural …
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New statistical genetic methods for elucidating the history and evolution of human populations
… in particular that of tracing the course of the Austronesian expansion in Southeast Asia. We also report a new approach for estimating the human mutation rate, a fundamental parameter in evolutionary genetics, and provide evidence that it is higher than has been proposed in recent pedigree-based …
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Funerary Practice and Community Identities in the Bacong Region of Negros Island, Central Philippines
… Island Southeast Asia. Often interpreted within Austronesian migration frameworks, these practices are commonly explained through large-scale processes of population movement and cultural diffusion. While useful for identifying regional patterns, such approaches can obscure localized practices …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
… insertions in Amfo'an, a variety of Meto (Austronesian) spoken in Western Timor. Amfo'an attests synchronic consonant insertion in two environments: before vowel-initial enclitics and to mark the right edge of the noun phrase. This constitutes two synchronic processes; the first is a …
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Post-Lapita developments in the Reef-Santa Cruz Islands, southeast Solomon Islands
… the post-Lapita period of people speaking non-Austronesian languages into the Main Reef and Santa Cruz Islands in the southeast Solomon Islands. It describes the theoretical and methodological difficulties in trying to assess whether cladistic or rhizotic processes best account for culture …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
… insertions in Amfo'an, a variety of Meto (Austronesian) spoken in Western Timor. Amfo'an attests synchronic consonant insertion in two environments: before vowel-initial enclitics and to mark the right edge of the noun phrase. This constitutes two synchronic processes; the first is a …
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Multiple case assignment : an Amis case study
… of a DP. Guided by data from Amis (Formosan, Austronesian), I argue that case assignment may apply to a single DP more than once and case-stacking is overt realisation of multiple case assignment. In Amis, a DP surfaces with all the cases it has been assigned when it is a contrastive topic. …
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Visual Analysis of E-Textbooks for Senior High School in Indonesia
… were markedly lower in numbers compared to the Austronesian and foreign ones. Second, it showed that in the eight English e-textbooks examined only Islam and Christianity were represented by human images. Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism were represented by the images of objects in the …
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Journey from the Rainbow Bridge Separated Christian Socialities in an Indigenous Truku Village of Taiwan
… This ethnography focuses on a marginalized Austronesian-speaking Taiwanese group, the Truku, who face challenges stemming from their relatively powerless social circumstances. As they have sought ways to cope with the impacts of their colonised status, the Truku people have converted to …
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Journey from the Rainbow Bridge Separated Christian Socialities in an Indigenous Truku Village of Taiwan
… This ethnography focuses on a marginalized Austronesian-speaking Taiwanese group, the Truku, who face challenges stemming from their relatively powerless social circumstances. As they have sought ways to cope with the impacts of their colonised status, the Truku people have converted to …
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Investigating the role of demography and selection in genome scale patterns of common and rare variant diversity in humans
… population that may have given rise to the Austronesian expansion. Furthermore, consistent with archaeological, cultural and linguistic evidence of Indian influence in Southeast Asia starting from 2.5 kya South Asian admixture in the region was estimated to date back to the last couple of …
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The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
… Besi language of Indonesia. Tukang Besi is an Austronesian language whose home islands lie in the province of' Southeast Sulawesi in Central Indonesia. It appears to subgroup more closely with the languages of Sulawesi than with the languages of Maluku, but its close genetic affiliations remain …
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The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
… Besi language of Indonesia. Tukang Besi is an Austronesian language whose home islands lie in the province of' Southeast Sulawesi in Central Indonesia. It appears to subgroup more closely with the languages of Sulawesi than with the languages of Maluku, but its close genetic affiliations remain …
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The heritage language acquisition and education of an indigenous group in Taiwan: An ethnographic study of Atayals in an elementary school
… was taught at schools only recently. As one of Austronesian language families, Atayal language and culture could have been part of the origin of other Polynesians in the Pacific Islands. Furthermore, as an Atayal member I was interested in knowing the current status of Atayal language among the …
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Scales of Interaction across the South China Sea between 6000 and 4000 BP. A chaîne opératoire approach to the Neolithic stone adzes of the Min River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Taiwan.
… as the result of the diffusion of Proto-Austronesian speakers: the spread of Neolithic material cultures, food production, rice farming, animal domestication, etc. The assumed underlying cause was the migration of agriculturalists that started in China c.9000 years ago, passed through …
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Topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Balinese based on the dialect of Singaraja, North Bali
… morphological and syntactic patterning of other Austronesian languages (Foley & Van Valin 1984, Durie 1984, 1987) is an important one in Balinese. Prefixes (or their absence) signal whether the subject of both transitive and intransitive verbs is an Actor or an Undergoer (chapter 11). The …
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Topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Balinese based on the dialect of Singaraja, North Bali
… morphological and syntactic patterning of other Austronesian languages (Foley & Van Valin 1984, Durie 1984, 1987) is an important one in Balinese. Prefixes (or their absence) signal whether the subject of both transitive and intransitive verbs is an Actor or an Undergoer (chapter 11). The …