East and Southeast Asian Linguistics Discussion Group (ESEAL)

 

Special session on the historical relationship of Acehnese

 

Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2007.

Time: 11:00am – 3pm

Room: 106A Morrill Hall

 

Program:

11-11:45 --overview, background, general issues

 

overview of issues/ external history -- Abby Cohn & Joe Pittayaporn

Chamic and Acehnese in the wider Austronesian perspective -- John Wolff

 

 

11:45-12:45 --basic vocabulary--word lists: Acehnese, Gayo, Malay,  Indonesian, Toba Batak, Minangkabau, Chamic, Hainan Cham, Phan Rang Cham, Chru, and Moken.

basic vocabulary of Achnese and Chamic -- Laurent Sagart
discussion of proposed cognates (Sidwell, Thurgood, Collins)

 

12:45-1:30--lunch

 

1:30-2:00--possible influences

 

Mainland Austronesian languages -- Joe Pittayaporn

Types of influence from Malay, Indonesian -- Abby Cohn

 

2:00-2:30 --morphology, syntax

 

Acehnese Morphology -- Dan Kaufman [paper]

Acehmese Syntax -- Julie Legate [paper]

 

2:30-3:00 --issues and further directions.

 

Relevant references:

 

Sidwell, Paul (2005) "Acehnese and the Aceh-Chamic Language family," in  A. Grant  and P. Sidwell (eds.) Chamic and beyond : studies in mainland Austronesian languages.  Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. [paper]

 

 Blust, Robert (1994) "The Austronesian Settlement of Mainland Southeast Asia," in K. L. Adams and T. J. Hudak (eds.) Papers from the second annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 1992.  Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State University, Program in Southeast Asian Studies. [paper]

 

Collins, James T.  (1991) Chamic, Malay and Acehnese:  the Malay World and Malayic Langauges. Le Campa et Le Monde Malais.  Actes de la Conference Internationale sur le Campa et le Monde Malais. [paper]

 

Durie, Mark (1990) Proto-Chamic and Acehnese mid vowels: Towards Proto-Chamic. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 53.1: 101-111. [paper]

 

Marrison, G. E. (1975) The early Cham language and its relationship to Malay. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 48.2: 52-59. [paper]

 

Reid, Anthony (2000) Chams in the Southeast Asian Maritime System. Charting the Shape of Early Modern Southeast Asia. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies: 39-55. [paper]

 

Reid, Anthony (2006) “Introduction” in A. Reid (ed.) Verandah of violence: the background to the Aceh problem. Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies: 1-21. [paper]

 

Shorto, H. L. (1975) Acehnese and Mainland Austronesian. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 38.1: 81-102. [paper]

 

Thurgood, Graham (2007) The Historical Place of Acehnese: the Known and the Unknown. Paper presented at the First International Conference of Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore & Rehabilitation and Construction Executing Agency for Aceh and Nias (BRR), Banda Aceh, Indonesia. February 24-27, 2007. [paper]

 

Thurgood, Graham (1999) From ancient Cham to modern dialects : two thousand years of language contact and change: with an appendix of chamic reconstructions and loanwords. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press.