Austronesian philology in the Soviet Union

Towards the end of the 19th century an increasing number of Russian scholars display an interest in South-East Asia and Oceania, but their work, as a rule, lies outside the scope of direct study of Austronesian philology. [...]the Russian anthropologist N. N. Miklucho-Maklay (1846-1888), having spen...

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Published in:Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde land- en volkenkunde, 1965-01, Vol.121 (2), p.245-258
Main Authors: Parnickel, B, Sirk, Ü
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Austronesian languages
Dialects
Dictionaries
Ethnography
Folklore
Islands
Language
Literary history
Museums
Philology
Polynesian studies
Russian literature
Scholars
Southeast Asian literature
Words
Writers
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Summary:Towards the end of the 19th century an increasing number of Russian scholars display an interest in South-East Asia and Oceania, but their work, as a rule, lies outside the scope of direct study of Austronesian philology. [...]the Russian anthropologist N. N. Miklucho-Maklay (1846-1888), having spent ten years in South-East Asia, occupied 1 See: "Putesestvie v Juzny okean i v Beringov proliv dlja otyskanija severovostocnogo morskogo prochoda" (A journey to the South Sea and the Bering Straits in search of a North-East sea passage), vol. According to N. F. Alieva, the inflexional system of the Indonesian verb has developed in the framework of expressing object and voice relations, and not those of aspect and tense. [...]the Experimental Laboratory of Machine Translation at Leningrad University is engaged in the composition of algorithms for the Indonesian language and many other languages. According to the author, the final blending of the "high" and "low" tendency occurs already after the proclamation of the independence of Indonesia.
ISSN:0006-2294
2213-4379
0006-2294
DOI:10.1163/22134379-90002964