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Abstract
This overview of Munda language history puts forth a new hypothesis of how the original Austroasiatic typology of prosody and morphosyntax came to fit into the current Munda morphosyntactic template via revised notions of changes in prosody and morphotactics. In addition, it takes the view that Munda languages are Austroasiatic languages that moved west from MSEA and that Munda has more typological similarity to MSEA AA languages than previously supposed.
Abstract
This overview of Munda language history puts forth a new hypothesis of how the original Austroasiatic typology of prosody and morphosyntax came to fit into the current Munda morphosyntactic template via revised notions of changes in prosody and morphotactics. In addition, it takes the view that Munda languages are Austroasiatic languages that moved west from MSEA and that Munda has more typological similarity to MSEA AA languages than previously supposed.
Abstract
This study represents the first step in attempting to unravel the synchronic complexities and diachronic origins of the systems of negation seen in the Kherwarian languages as a whole and within the broader North Munda and comparative Munda contexts. Like many other Munda languages, and Austraroasiatic more broadly, Kherwarian languages have two formally distinct systems of negation, contrasting a general negative form with a prohibitive marker, which is likely partly cognate with negative elements found in most non-North Munda branches of the family. Based on a big comparative Kherwarian data set, this study has brought to light some interesting features that we can project back into to the Proto-Kherwarian or Proto-North Munda stages, in particular, complex interdependencies between negation, TAM-marking and person indexing.
Abstract
This study represents the first step in attempting to unravel the synchronic complexities and diachronic origins of the systems of negation seen in the Kherwarian languages as a whole and within the broader North Munda and comparative Munda contexts. Like many other Munda languages, and Austraroasiatic more broadly, Kherwarian languages have two formally distinct systems of negation, contrasting a general negative form with a prohibitive marker, which is likely partly cognate with negative elements found in most non-North Munda branches of the family. Based on a big comparative Kherwarian data set, this study has brought to light some interesting features that we can project back into to the Proto-Kherwarian or Proto-North Munda stages, in particular, complex interdependencies between negation, TAM-marking and person indexing.