Austroasiatic Languages: Munda (Eastern India) and
Mon-Khmer
(NE India, mainland SE Asia, Malaysia, Nicobars)
[Site maintained by
Patricia Donegan
and
David Stampe]
Austroasiatic languages map (in German) from H.-J. Pinnow's
Versuch einer historischen Lautlehre der Kharia-Sprache, 1958:
map (jpg-file);
legend (jpg-file).
Vietnamese is omitted.
Mainland SE Asian language maps compiled
by David Bradley (part of Wurm & Hattori's Language Atlas of the
Pacific Area (1981, 1983):
Southern SE Asia sheet:
map,
legend,
text (continues on following sheet).
Northern SE Asia sheet:
map,
legend,
text
(continued from preceding sheet).
Patricia J. Donegan & David Stampe,
Rhythm and the holistic organization of language structure
(.pdf file), a corrected version of a paper originally published in
Papers from the Parasession on the Interplay of Phonology,
Morphology, and Syntax, ed. John F. Richardson, Mitchell Marks,
and Amy Chukerman (Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 1983), pp. 337-353.
Patricia J. Donegan & David Stampe,
Rhythm and the synthetic drift of Munda (.pdf file),
in Rajendra Singh (ed.),
The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
2004, pp. 3-36.
Doug Cooper's SEA Linguistics Bibliography site
includes his Thai and computational linguistics bibliography,
as well as the two bibliographies by Stampe and Huffman,
above, as targets of Doug's versatile search and reformatting
engine. NO LONGER ONLINE
LTBA (Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area):
home page.
Lexicography:
Munda Lexical Archive, an ongoing copylefted archive
of most of the lexical materials available from the non-Kherwarian
Munda languages, assembled, analyzed, and arranged
by Patricia J. Donegan & David Stampe. A detailed description
with credits is forthcoming. For now see
00README.
(A current snapshot of the whole is available for download as a
zip archive:
munda-archive.zip)
Sora (Saora, Savara), data of
G. V. Ramamurti, Verrier Elwin, H. S. Biligiri,
David Stampe, Stanley Starosta, Bijoy P. Mahapatra,
Ranganayaki Mahapatra, Arlene R. K. Zide,
Khageswar Mahapatra, Piers Vitebsky, Patricia J. Donegan,
et al.
Gutob (Gadaba), data of Norman H. Zide,
Bimal Prasad Das, Patricia J. Donegan, et al.
Remo (Bonda), data of Verrier Elwin,
Frank Fernandez, S. Bhattacharya, Patricia J. Donegan,
et al.
Gta' (Didayi), data of Suhas Chatterji,
P. N. Chakravarti, Norman H. Zide, Khageswar Mahapatra,
Patricia J. Donegan, et al.
Kharia, data of H. Floor, H. Geysens,
H. S. Biligiri, Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow, et al.
Juang, data of Verrier Elwin, Dan M. Matson,
Bijoy P. Mahapatra, Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow, et al.
Korku, data of Norman H. Zide,
Beryl A. Girard, Patricia J. Donegan, et al.
Santali, a growing selection of Paul
Otto Bodding's 5-volume A Santal Dictionary
(Oslo, Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, 1929-1936),
input by Makoto Minegishi and associates, ILCAA, Tokyo, but so far
of limited value since it is accessible only by searching
for an exactly spelled Santali headword! .
Etymology:
Munda:
Comparative Munda (mostly North),
rough draft ed. Stampe, based on Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow's
Versuch einer historischen Lautlehre der Kharia-Sprache
(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1959) and Ram Dayal Munda's
Proto-Kherwarian Phonology, unpublished MA thesis,
University of Chicago, 1968.
Working files of South Munda lexical data by gloss
assembled from collections of David Stampe, Patricia Donegan,
H.-J. Pinnow, Sudhibhushan Bhattacharya, and Norman and Arlene Zide
for a seminar by Stampe on Austroasiatic languages.
Indian Substratum:
South Asia Residual Vocabulary Assemblage (SARVA), a
compilation of ancient Indian words lacking apparent Indo-Aryan,
Dravidian, or Austroasiatic origins, in progress by Franklin
Southworth and Michael Witzel, with David Stampe.
Dravidian: Thomas Burrow and Murray B. Emeneau's
A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, Oxford and New York:
Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 1984.
Accessible by search on headwords or strings,
through the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia project, U. Chicago.
Indo-Aryan: Sir Ralph Turner's
A Comparative Dictionary of Indo-Aryan Languages,
London: Oxford University Press, 1962-66, with 3 supplements 1969-85.
Accessible by search on headwords or strings,
through the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia project, U. Chicago.
Sino-Tibetan: James A. Matisoff's
STEDT (Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus)
Project, at Berkeley. The first fruit of the project,
Matisoff's Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy
of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction (University of California
Publications in Linguistics 135), 2003, can be downloaded from
California's eScholarship Repository as a searchable
pdf file. On the STEDT site is an
index of reconstructions and a first set of
addenda and corrigenda for HPTB.
Electronic publication of STEDT is planned in 8 semantically arranged
fascicles.
