TY - BOOK AU - Lemaréchal,Alain TI - Comparative grammar and typology: essays on the historical grammar of the Austronesian languages T2 - Orbis SN - 978-90-429-2254-9 U1 - 499.25 21E PY - 2010/// CY - Leuven, Paris, Walpole PB - Peeters KW - Austronesian languages KW - Grammar, Historical KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Taiwan languages KW - Typology (Linguistics) N1 - Bibliogr. p. [339]-353; At the origins of the focus system: the Formosan languages and comparative grammar of the Austronesian languages -- On the history and prehistory of the article-case markers -- Person markers: the languages of Formosa: archaic or "advanced"? -- Historical phonetics and lexicology: history or geography? -- Protoaustronesian and the Sulawesi and Micronesian languages: final propositions for the reconstruction of the verbal systems, person markers and sentence structure -- A provisional conclusion: system genesis and subgroupings ER -