Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Adelaar, Alexander

Titel

Javanese -ake and -ak(schwa)n: A Short History

Ist Teil von

• Oceanic linguistics, 2011-12, Vol.50 (2), p.338-350

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Evidence from various Javanese dialects is presented to show that the standard Javanese transitive suffixes -ake and -ak(schwa)n have only recently become part of the Javanese morpheme inventory. They have replaced an earlier transitive suffix *-((glottal stop))(schwa)n, which is still reflected in Tengger Javanese and in marginal positions in standard Javanese. The acquisition of -ake and -ak(schwa)n in standard Javanese happened independently of the acquisition of -ak(schwa)n in Old Javanese. This allows a different perspective on the position of Old Javanese in the classification of Javanese dialects: it is most likely not a direct predecessor of standard Javanese. The spread of -ak(schwa)n to Javanese and other languages is an areal feature. The replacement of *-((glottal stop))(schwa)n by -ak(schwa)n may have been motivated by a need to reduce the high functional load of *-((glottal stop))(schwa)n. The form -ake is tentatively explained as a low register back-formation from -ak(schwa)n. Adapted from the source document