Screen LibraryLanguages of mainland Southeast Asia : the state of the art /
The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with an overview of current knowledge and new directions by the volume editors N. J. Enfield and Bernard...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Pacific linguistics [pl];
649 |
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with an overview of current knowledge and new directions by the volume editors N. J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this book will serve as an authoritative source on where the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and where it is heading. |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource(vi,662pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9781501501685 |
| Index Number: | PL3501 |
| CLC: | H004.33 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Mainland Southeast Asian languages / Word-initial prenasalization in Southeast Asia / Local drift and areal convergence in the restructuring of Mainland Southeast Asian languages / Re-assessing tonal diversity and geographical convergence in Mainland Southeast Asia / Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho / The far West of Southeast Asia / Morphosyntactic reconstruction in an arealhistorical context / The Mekong-Mamberamo linguistic area / The Far Southern Sinitic languages as part of Mainland Southeast Asia / Approaching a phonological understanding of the sesquisyllable with phonetic evidence from Khmer and Bunong / Typologizing sesquisyllabicity / Morphological functions among Mon-Khmer languages / The origins of nominal classification markers in MSEA languages / Expressing motion / Subject index -- Author index -- Place index -- Language index. |