The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay

Sebastian Nordhoff, Ph. D. (2009), University of Amsterdam, is postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Insitute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. He works on languages of Sri Lanka, language contact, and Linguistic Linked Open Data. Next to his reference grammar of Sri Lanka Malay, he has published on its synchrony and diachrony.

Contributors include Peter Bakker, James W. Gair, Mohamed Jaffar, Sebastian Nordhoff, Romola Rassool, Peter Slomanson, and Ian Smith.

Historical linguists, creolists, specialists in South and South East Asia as well as anyone interested in diaspora populations, construction of identity and the history of Sri Lanka

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PART I
OVERVIEW
1. Introduction
Sebastian Nordhoff

2. Synchronic Grammar of Sri Lanka Malay
Sebastian Nordhoff

PART II
SOCIOLOGY, HISTORY, AND DEMOGRAPHY
3. Sri Lanka Malay: New Findings on Contacts
Peter Bakker

4. Known, Inferable, and Discoverable in Sri Lankan Malay Research
Peter Slomanson

5. Issues of Power and Privilege in the Maintenance of Sri Lanka Malay: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
Romola Rassool

PART III
LANGUAGE CONTACT
6. The Lexical Sources of Sri Lanka Malay Revisited
Scott Paauw

7. Sri Lankan Languages in the South-South Asia Linguistic Area: Sinhala and Sri Lanka Malay
James W. Gair

8. Hijacked Constructions in Second Language Acquisition: Implications for Sri Lanka Malay
Ian Smith

9. The Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions in Sri Lanka Malay
Mohamed Jaffar

10. The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay as a Multi-Layered Process
Sebastian Nordhoff

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