Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia : The State of the Art by N.J. Enfield, Bernard Comrie

By N.J. Enfield, Bernard Comrie

The reviews during this e-book signify the wealthy, assorted and colossal examine being carried out this day within the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. Written via top researchers within the box, and with an summary of present wisdom and new instructions via the amount editors N J Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this publication will function an authoritative resource on the place the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and the place it truly is heading.

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Language contact and areal diffusion in Sinitic languages. In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R. M. W. ), Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance: Problems in comparative linguistics, 328–57. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chappell, J. & N. J. Shackleton. 1986. Oxygen isotopes and sea level. Nature 324(6093). 137–140. Chen, Guoqing. 2005. Kemieyu yanjiu [A study of Kemie]. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe. Clark, Marybeth & Amara Prasithrathsint. 1985. Synchronic lexical derivation in Southeast Asian languages.

Lao hak2 can mean transitive ‘snap’ or intransitive ‘is/has been snapped’). – Rich inventories of sentence-final particles that make subtle distinctions in sentence type, stance, evidentiality, and combinations thereof. – Rich inventories of ideophones (or ‘expressives’) and other expressive forms, including rhyming four-syllable expressions, and productive elaborative rhyming devices. – Numeral classifiers and related systems of nominal classification (see Blench this volume). – Complex pronominal systems, with multi-level social-deictic meanings.

Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia Pacific Linguistics Managing editor Bethwyn Evans Editorial board members Wayan Arka Mark Donohue Nicholas Evans Gwendolyn Hyslop David Nash Bill Palmer Jane Simpson Andrew Pawley Malcolm Ross Volume 649 ISBN 978-1-5015-0843-1 e-ISBN (EPUB) 9781501501708 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-1-5015-0168-5 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-1-5015-0170-8 ISSN 1448-8310 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress.

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