Chapter 8

Question 1

homeland of austronesian languages

Answer 1

taiwan

Question 2

austronesian, formosan

Answer 2

1. atayalic
2. east formosan
3. puyuma
4. paiwan
5. rukai
   6.tsouic
6. bunun
7. western plains
8. northwest formosan
9. malayo-polynesian

Question 3

branch of austronesian language

Answer 3

all austronesian languages outside of taiwan (including yami), belong to the malayo-polynesian branch, sometimes also called extra-formosan

Question 4

austronesian prototype

Answer 4

• small sound inventories
• reduplication
• infixation
• inclusive-exclusive distinction
  -lack of grammatical gender
• verb-initial word order
• philippine-style topic marking

Question 5

lexical reduplication

Answer 5

word only occurs in a reduplicated form
kapu-kapu is butterfly
kapu doesnt mean anything

Question 6

morphological/grammatical reduplication

Answer 6

reduplicated form derived through regular process from existing base form
jalan-jalan is take a walk
jalan is walk

Question 7

javanese

Answer 7

respect
indicating the social relationship between the speaker and the listener

Question 8

three styles in javanese

Answer 8

low, middle, high

Question 9

low javanese

Answer 9

ngoko; informal speech between friends and close relatives

Question 10

middle jabanese

Answer 10

mayda; intermediate between ngoko and krama; used when one wnats to be neither too formal nor too informal

Question 11

high javanese

Answer 11

krama; polite and formal speech