Questions tagged [malay]
The malay tag has no usage guidance.
4
questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
2
votes
0answers
53 views
Movement and Spell-Out of Heads
Generally, DPs need to move to certain positions or configurations in order to check for case features (among other things) and allow spell-out. For example, raising predicates raise the subject of an ...
1
vote
0answers
74 views
The Word for 'Ball' Pre-Colonisation
What I've found is that word-final /a/ in native Malay words and words up to the time of the Portuguese invasion (16-17th century) undergo reduction, e.g.:
/a/ → [ə] / __#
Mata (eye) - [matə]
Kura-...
1
vote
0answers
61 views
Passive Imperatives
The optional subject of an imperative is usually the second person pronoun. I've found something quite peculiar in Malay, where the utterance is an imperative and is passive but the subject is not the ...
1
vote
0answers
130 views
Can Malay or Indonesian ever have an /n/ followed by a /g/?
Malay and Indonesian are considered to be very phonetically spelled with the usually cited exception being that orthographic "e" can represent either /e/ or /ə/.
In both orthographies the sound /ŋ/ ...
