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  1. On the origins of Javanese negators

    Article • May 2026, John Benjamins

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  2. Introduction Lexical borrowing in Indonesia; Some introductory thoughts

    Article • Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, October 2024, Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  3. Malay (and Javanese) loanwords in Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy wordlist

    Article • Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, October 2024, Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  4. Abbreviations and conventions

    Article • August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  5. Map

    Article • August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  6. Series preface

    Article • August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  7. The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Southeast Asia

    Article • August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  8. Historical linguistics of the languages of Sumatra, Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands, and Moken-Moklen

    Article • August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  9. Introduction

    Article • August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  10. Language contact in Africa

    Article • August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  11. Malayic languages

    Article • August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  12. Personal pronouns

    Article • August 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  13. South Borneo as an ancient Sprachbund area

    Article • Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, May 2021, Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  14. Dual *kita in the History of East Barito Languages

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2019, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  15. Histoire et voyages des plantes cultivées à Madagascar by Philippe Beaujard

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2019, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  16. Regular sound change; The evidence of a single example

    Article • Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, October 2018, Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  17. Notes on structural distinctions in Malay dialects

    Article • Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, October 2018, Wacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  18. The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor

    Article • The American Journal of Human Genetics, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  19. 10. Who Were the First Malagasy, and What Did They Speak?

    Article • December 2017, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  20. Dialects of Malay/Indonesian

    Article • December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  21. Dialects of Japanese

    Article • December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  22. Genomic landscape of human diversity across Madagascar

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  23. 13. The comparative method in Austronesian linguistics

    Article • January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  24. Malagasy Genetic Ancestry Comes from an Historical Malay Trading Post in Southeast Borneo

    Article • Molecular Biology and Evolution, July 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  25. Contrasting Linguistic and Genetic Origins of the Asian Source Populations of Malagasy

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  26. Austronesians in Madagascar: A Critical Assessment of the Works of Paul Ottino and Philippe Beaujard

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  27. Bibliography of the Languages of Borneo (and Madagascar), written by Robert Blust and Alexander D. Smith

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  28. Proto-Siraya Phonology: A Reconstruction

    Article • Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, July 2014, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  29. Malagasy Personal Pronouns: A Lexical History

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2014, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  30. A grammar of Balantak: A language of Eastern Sulawesi by René van den Berg and Robert L. Busenitz

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2014, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  31. Malagasy Dialect Divisions: Genetic versus Emblematic Criteria

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2013, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  32. Siraya: Retrieving the phonology, grammar and lexicon of a dormant Formosan language by Alexander Adelaar

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2013, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  33. A world of words: Revisiting the work of Renward Brandstetter (1860–1942) on Lucerne and Austronesia ed. by Robert Blust and Jürg Schneider (review)

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2013, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  34. Clauses

    Article • December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  35. Introduction

    Article • December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  36. Phrases

    Article • December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  37. Sentences

    Article • December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  38. Words

    Article • December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  39. Indonesian: A Comprehensive Grammar

    Article • December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  40. Malagasy Phonological History and Bantu Influence

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2012, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  41. 11. A probable cause of the extinction of Siraya

    Article • December 2011, De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  42. 3. Reduplication

    Article • December 2011, De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  43. Austronesian Linguistics

    Article • October 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  44. 12. Attempts at reviving Siraya

    Article • January 2011, De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  45. Javanese -aké and -akən: A Short History

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2011, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  46. Loanwords in the World's Languages

    Article • December 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  47. Language Documentation in the West Austronesian World and Vanuatu: An Overview

    Article • November 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  48. 28. Loanwords in Malagasy

    Article • January 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  49. Papers in Austronesian subgrouping and dialectology (review)

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2008, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  50. Borneo as a Cross-Roads for Comparative Austronesian Linguistics

    Article • September 2006, ANU Press

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  51. Malayo-Sumbawan

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2005, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  52. Much ado about di-

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 2005, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  53. The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar

    Article • November 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  54. Le siraya: interprétation d’un corpus datant du XVIIeme siècle

    Article • Faits de langues, January 2004, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  55. about two fossilised Malay affixes, b(e)- and -ng

    Article • Faits de langues, January 2004, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  56. Where does Malay come from? Twenty years of discussions about homeland, migrations and classifications

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 2004, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  57. Perspectives on the Bird's Head of Irian, Jaya, Indonesia: Proceedings of the Conference, Leiden, October 13-17, 1997 (review)

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2001, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  58. Malay: A Short History

    Article • Oriente Moderno, August 2000, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  59. Siraya Reduplication

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, June 2000, JSTOR

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  60. Siraya Reduplication

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 2000, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  61. Topics in Descriptive Austronesian Linguistics

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, December 1999, JSTOR

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  62. Language Use and Language Change in Brunei Darussalam. By Peter W. Martin, Conrad Ozóg and Gloria Poedjosoedarmo. Athens (Ohio): Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1996. Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series Number 1...

    Article • Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, September 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  63. Topics in descriptive Austronesian linguistics (review)

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 1999, Project Muse

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  64. Malay: A short history

    Article • South Pacific Journal of Psychology, January 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  65. Book Reviews

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 1998, De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  66. Grammar Notes on Siraya, an Extinct Formosan Language

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, December 1997, JSTOR

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  67. An Exploration of Directional Systems in West Indonesia and Madagascar

    Article • November 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  68. Problems of Definiteness and Ergativity in Embaloh

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, December 1995, JSTOR

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  69. Asian roots of the Malagasy; A linguistic perspective

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 1995, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  70. Malay and Javanese loanwords in Malagasy, Tagalog and Siraya (Formosa)

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 1994, De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  71. The internal classification of the Malayic subgroup

    Article • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, October 1993, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  72. REVEL Nicole Fleurs de paroles. Histoire naturelle palawan. Tome I : Les dons de Nägsalad. (Série Ethnosciences 5). Tome II : La maîtrise d'un savoir et l'art d'une relation. (Série Ethnosciences 6). Tome III : Chants d'amour / Chants d'oiseaux. (Série...

    Article • Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, March 1993, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  73. The relevance of Salako for Proto-Malayic and for Old Malay epigraphy

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 1992, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  74. Malay Influence on Malagasy: Linguistic and Culture-Historical Implications

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 1989, JSTOR

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  75. Early Phonetic and Phonemic Changes in Austronesian

    Article • Oceanic Linguistics, January 1989, JSTOR

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  76. In memoriam Johannes Cornelis Anceaux

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 1989, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  77. Some proto-Malayic affixes

    Article • Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, January 1984, Brill

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  78. Malay: its history, role and spread

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Aone van Engelenhoven, Dr Alexander Adelaar

  79. The classification of the Tamanic languages

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  80. 19. Minangkabau K. A. Adelaar

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  81. 18. Toba Batak K. A. Adelaar

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  82. 16. Malagasy K. A. Adelaar

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  83. Malay-the national language of Malaysia

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  84. Contact languages in Indonesia and Malaysia other than Malay

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  85. Historiography of the Formosan Languages before the Japanese Occupation (17th–19th Centuries)

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar

  86. Siraya

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Alexander Adelaar