Alexander Adelaar
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexander Adelaar is involved.
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2026 Chapter 31. On the origins of Javanese negators The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 866–897 | Chapter
This paper investigates the origins of Old and Modern Javanese negators. Modern Javanese distinguishes four negators.
Predicative ora (‘no(t)’) derives from Old Javanese tan+wwara ‘there is not’ and its high register counterpart botən from tan+wontən.
Prohibitive aja (‘don’t’)… read more