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JSEALS Special Publication No Zurich Open Repository and Archive University of Zurich Main Library Strickhofstrasse 39 CH-8057 Zurich www.zora.uzh.ch Year: 2018 Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics Edited by: Ring, Hiram <javascript:contributorCitation( ’Ring, Hiram’ );>; Rau, Felix <javascript:contributorCitation( ’Rau, Felix’ );> Abstract: This is a collection of 9 articles from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics held in 2017 in Kiel, Germany. The papers present significant advances in both diachronic and synchronic studies of Austroasiatic languages in Mainland Southeast Asia and Eastern India. Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-159822 Edited Scientific Work Published Version Originally published at: Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics. Edited by: Ring, Hiram; Rau, Felix (2018). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. JSEALS Special Publication No. 3 PaPers from the SEVeNTH INterNatIoNal CoNFERENCe oN aUSTROASIATIC lINGUISTICs Edited by: Hiram Ring Felix Rau Copyright vested in the authors; Creative Commons Attribution Licence © 2018 University of Hawai’i Press All rights reserved OPEN ACCESS – Semiannual with periodic special publications E-ISSN: 1836-6821 http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52438 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. JSEALS publishes fully open access content, which means that all articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication. Non-commercial use and distribution in any medium is permitted, provided the author and the journal are properly credited. Cover photo courtesy of Hiram Ring: Pnar speakers planting rice near Sohmynting, Meghalaya, North-East India. i JournalJSEALS of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Editor-in-Chief Mark Alves (Montgomery College, USA) Managing Editors Nathan Hill (University of London, SOAS, UK) Sigrid Lew (Payap University, Thailand) Paul Sidwell (Australia National University, Australia) Editorial Advisory Committee Luke BRADLEY (University of Freiburg, Germany) – Psycholinguistics, Orthography, Sound change, Morphology, Vietnamese Marc BRUNELLE (University of Ottawa, Canada) Christopher BUTTON (Independent researcher) Kamil DEEN (University of Hawaii, USA) Gerard DIFFLOTH (Cambodia) Rikker DOCKUM (Yale University, USA) David M. EBERHARD (Ethnologue general editor, SIL International) Ryan GEHRMANN (Payap University) San San HNIN TUN (INCALCO, France) Kitima INDRAMBARYA (Kasetsart University, Thailand) Peter JENKS (UC Berkeley, USA) Mathias JENNY (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Daniel KAUFMAN (Queens College, City University of New York & Endangered Language Alliance, USA) James KIRBY (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Hsiu-chuan LIAO (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Bradley MCDONNELL (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, USA) Alexis MICHAUD (CNRS (Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), France) Marc MIYAKE (The British Museum) David MORTENSEN (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Peter NORQUEST (University of Arizona, USA) Christina Joy PAGE (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada) John D. PHAN (Columbia University, USA) Pittayawat PITTAYAPORN (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Amara PRASITHRATHSINT (Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Alexander D. SMITH (University of North Texas) Thomas M. TEHAN (Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand) Joseph (Deth) THACH (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France) Kenneth VAN BIK (California State University, Fullerton, CA) Seth VITRANO-WILSON (Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand) Alice VITTRANT (Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS-DDL, France) Heather WINSKEL (Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia) The Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society publishes articles on a wide range of linguistic topics of the languages and language families of Southeast Asia and surrounding areas. JSEALS has been hosted by the UH Press since the beginning of 2017. ii Contents Introduction to Special Issue: Papers from ICAAL 7 ............................................... iv From the JSEALS Editor-in-Chief ............................................................................. vii On prosodic structures in Austroasiatic diachrony: ‘Rhythmic holism’ revisited in light of preliminary acoustic studies .............................................................................. 1 Hiram Ring and Gregory D. S. Anderson Negation, TAM and person-indexing interdependencies in the Munda languages: A preliminary report..................................................................................................... 36 Gregory D. S. Anderson and Bikram Jora Correlative-Relative clauses in Munda languages: An overview .............................. 60 Jurica Polančec A phonological analysis of Riang Lang ...................................................................... 78 Elizabeth Hall Verbal affixes in Rumai, Palaung ................................................................................ 87 Rachel Weymuth Proto-Nicobarese phonology ...................................................................................... 101 Paul Sidwell Katuic Presyllables and Derivational Morphology In Diachronic Perspective ..... 132 Ryan Gehrmann The Integration of French loanwords into Vietnamese: A corpus-based analysis of tonal, syllabic and segmental aspects ........................................................................ 157 Vera Scholvin, Judith Meinschaefer Waterworld: lexical evidence for aquatic subsistence strategies in Austroasiatic 174 Roger Blench iii INTRODUCTION TO SPECIAL ISSUE: PAPERS FROM ICAAL 7 This special issue of the Journal of South-East Asian linguistics consists of a selection of papers from the 7th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics, held in Kiel, Germany between September 29 - October 1, 2017 at the Christian Albrechts University (CAU). The conferences are held every two years and provide an opportunity for scholars working on Austroasiatic languages to present and discuss their work. At the business meeting a proceedings volume was proposed - these nine papers are the result of the proposal. Austroasiatic languages are relatively diverse typologically and are located non-contiguously over a large geographical area stretching from eastern India to Vietnam. The relationship of the typological diversity with the geographical spread of the languages is a central issue that continued to arise at the conference. The degree of difference between various groups of languages (particularly the traditional distinction between “Munda” and “Mon-Khmer”) and exactly what motivates such differences has been much debated, and a number of papers in this volume address these questions, particularly in relation to the proposed history and spread of the languages. The first paper in the volume tackles the differences between Austroasiatic languages in terms of prosody. In their paper “On prosodic structures in Austroasiatic diachrony: ‘Rhythmic holism’ revisited in light of preliminary acoustic studies”, Hiram Ring and Gregory D. S. Anderson provide a timely critique of the widely cited work of Donegan and Stampe (references in paper). They review some of the current cross-linguistic literature on prosody, as well as studies of Austroasiatic languages, and conduct a pilot acoustic analysis of words and phrases in Sora, Pnar, and Lawa. They suggest that claims of a single rhythmic organizing principle at the prosodic level accounting for the differences between the Munda languages and other Austroasiatic languages are difficult to maintain, and that the three languages investigated seem to share the same iambic structure at the word level. They also highlight how reference to and sharing of data is crucial to make progress in disentangling the historical relationships and development of these languages. The second paper describes grammatical structures in Munda languages. The paper, by Gregory D. S. Anderson and Bikram Jora titled “Negation, TAM and person-indexing interdependencies in the Munda languages: a preliminary report”, offers a careful analysis of interacting Munda grammatical systems, namely negation, tense/aspect/mood, and person-indexing. They suggest that alignment of various elements of these systems may allow for reconstruction, and refer to a database of transcriptions and translations, providing a large number of examples to back up their claims. The third paper, by Jurica Polančec, also has Munda languages as its focus. Titled “Correlative- Relative Clauses In Munda Languages: An Overview”, it highlights how Munda languages have both headed and headless Correlative-Relative Clauses, and that while the former are likely borrowed from neighboring Indo-Aryan languages, the latter are likely original to Munda. Evidence provided comes from neighboring languages and an appeal to cross-linguistic tendencies. The fourth and fifth paper in this issue move east from South Asia to the Palaungic languages in eastern Myanmar. With “A phonological analysis of Riang Lang” Ellie Hall adds new data to the discussion of phonemes in Riang Lang, a Palaungic language located in Shan State, Myanmar. Her analysis indicates that the language has 12 vowels and 21 consonants, which differs slightly from previous analyses. Rachel Weymuth’s paper “Verbal
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