Liao Hsiu-chuan (ed.). Issues in Austronesian Historical Linguistics

Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. — viii + 122 p. — (JSEALS Special Publication 1). — E-ISSN: 1836-6821.This is the first JSEALS special publication since JSEALS became a University of Hawai‘i Press publication as of January 2017. The goal of JSEALS special publications is to share collections of linguistics articles, such as select papers from conferences or other special research agendas, as well as to offer a way for linguistic researchers in the greater Southeast Asian region to publish monograph-length works.
In this instance, Hsiu-chuan Liao, the primary editor of this publication, requested that papers from the 2015 13-ICAL meeting be published through JSEALS, which we were able to complete in a timely manner. The five papers include works by prominent names in the field of Austronesian historical linguistics.Mora, Vowel Length, and Diachrony: the Case of Arta, a Philippine Negrito Language
Yukinori Kimoto
Re-evaluating the Position of Iraya among Philippine Languages
Lawrence A. Reid
Reconstructing Proto Kenyah Pronouns and the Development of a True Five Number System
Alexander D. Smith
Linguistic Evidence for Prehistory: Oceanic Examples
Malcolm Ross
Classifying Old Rapa: Linguistic Evidence for Contact Networks in Southeast Polynesia
Mary Walworth
Hsiu-chuan Liao (hcliao@mx.nthu.edu.tw) is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. She received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2004. Her primary research interests include historical linguistics, Austronesian languages (especially Philippine languages and other western Austronesian languages), and morphosyntactic typology and theories. She serves as an Associate Editor for Oceanic Linguistics and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for the Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society and is a member of the Board of Editorial Consultants for the Philippine Journal of Linguistics.