South Borneo as an ancient Sprachbund area
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F21%3A73606963" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/21:73606963 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/963" target="_blank" >http://www.wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/963</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17510/wacana.v22i1.963" target="_blank" >10.17510/wacana.v22i1.963</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
South Borneo as an ancient Sprachbund area
Original language description
In South and Central Kalimantan (southern Borneo) there are some unusual linguistic features shared among languages which are adjacent but do not belong to the same genetic linguistic subgroups. These languages are predominantly Banjar Malay (a Malayic language), Ngaju (a West Barito language), and Ma’anyan (a Southeast Barito language). The same features also appear to some degree in Malagasy, a Southeast Barito language in East Africa. The shared linguistic features are the following ones: a grammaticalized form of the originally Malay noun buah ‘fruit’ expressing affectedness, nasal spreading in which N- not only nasalizes the onset of the first syllable but also a *y in the next syllable, a non-volitional marker derived from the Banjar Malay prefix combination ta-pa- (related to Indonesian tər- + pər-), and the change from Proto Malayo-Polynesian *s to h (or Malagasy Ø). These features have their origins in the various members of the language configuration outlined above and form a Sprachbund or “Linguistic Area”. The concept of Linguistic Area is weak and difficult to define. Lyle Campbell (2002) considers it little else than borrowing or diffusion and writes it off as “no more than [a] post hoc attempt [...] to impose geographical order on varied conglomerations of [...] borrowings”. While mindful of its shortcomings, the current author still uses the concept as a useful tool to distinguish between areainherited and borrowed commonalities. In the configuration of languages currently under discussion it also provides a better understanding of the linguistic situation in South Borneo at a time prior to the Malagasy migrations to East Africa (some thirteen centuries ago).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
O - Projekt operacniho programu
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Wacana-Jurnal Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya-Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
ISSN
1411-2272
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
81-101
UT code for WoS article
000653773700004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85105940607