%0 Journal Article
%T The first standard grammar of Malay; George Werndly¡¯s 1736 Maleische spraakkunst
%J -
%D 2018
%R http://dx.doi.org/10.17510/wacana.v19i2.644
%X A brief biography of George Henrik Werndly and description of contemporaneous development of linguistics is followed by a perusal of Melchior Leydekker¡¯s and Petrus van der Vorm¡¯s policy of strictly using Classical Malay in Christian publication, that served as basis of Werndly¡¯s work. Then, a detailed perusal of Werndly¡¯s 1736 Malay grammar, in particular the divisions (¡°books¡±) on (I) spelling, (II) morphology, and (III) syntax, is illustrated by reproductions of original text passages. Elements of the complicated Latin-script spelling are demonstrated in detail and compared with that of other authors in separate tables. Werndly¡¯s grammatical terminology is considered, and where Arabisms are used, Werndly¡¯s spelling is provided besides modern Indonesian cognates and Arabic etymons. Signs of a likely precolonial Malayan grammar tradition are inspected. Finally, the partly unexpected influence of Werndly¡¯s work on language policy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is inspected
%K Jawi-script
%K Latinization
%K grammar
%K High-Malay
%K language-policy
%K Malay-morphology
%K Malay-syntax
%U http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/644