Austronesian Undressed

Many Austronesian languages exhibit isolating word structure. This volume offers a series of investigations into these languages, which are found in an "e;isolating crescent"e; extending from Mainland Southeast Asia through the Indonesian archipelago and into western New Guinea. Some of the languages examined in this volume include Cham, Minangkabau, colloquial Malay/Indonesian and Javanese, Lio, ...