The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area
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The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area
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Author : Alice Vittrant
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-06-04
The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area written by Alice Vittrant and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book lies at the crossroads of areal typology, language contact and genetic affiliation. Concerned with mainland Southeast Asia in particular, the various grammatical sketches lay emphasis on characteristics shared by unrelated languages.
The Languages And Linguistics Of Mainland Southeast Asia
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Author : Paul Sidwell
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-08-23
The Languages And Linguistics Of Mainland Southeast Asia written by Paul Sidwell and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-23 with History categories.
The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.
Languages Of Mainland Southeast Asia
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Author : N.J. Enfield
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2015-03-30
Languages Of Mainland Southeast Asia written by N.J. Enfield and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several studies address questions of language relatedness, often challenging conventional assumptions about the status of language contact as an explanatory factor in accounting for linguistic similarities. Several address the question of Mainland Southeast Asia as a linguistic area, exploring new ways to imagine and define the boundaries, and indeed the boundedness, of a Mainland Southeast Asia area. Two contributions rethink the received notion of the 'sesquisyllable' with new empirical and theoretical angles. And a set of chapters explores topics in the morphology and syntax of the region's languages, sometimes challenging orthodox assumptions and claims about what a typical language of Mainland Southeast Asia is like. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with a substantial 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.
The Languages Of Mainland Southeast Asia
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Author : N. J. Enfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
The Languages Of Mainland Southeast Asia written by N. J. Enfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Southeast Asia categories.
"To understand the nature of human language, we need to know the properties that languages can have, the distribution of those properties in the world, and the reasons for that distribution. This book brings together information relevant to these questions in relation to one geographical area: mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA). In line with the remit of the Cambridge Language Surveys series, we present a technical survey of the languages of this area, with two main points of thematic focus: first, the histories of the languages and their speakers, and second, the structural properties of the languages from sound systems to the make-up of phrases and clauses"--
Mainland Southeast Asian Languages
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Author : N. J. Enfield
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019
Mainland Southeast Asian Languages written by N. J. Enfield and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Foreign Language Study categories.
A concise introduction to the languages of mainland Southeast Asia that provides a new look at this unique area.
Linguistic Epidemiology
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Author : N.J. Enfield
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Linguistic Epidemiology written by N.J. Enfield and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese. The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics. Gricean pragmatics, semantic change, grammaticalization, language contact, and areal linguistics. The book also examines how changes in the speech of individuals actually become changes in large-scale public convention, 'language contact' is reconsidered, and traditional distinctions such as that between 'internal' and 'external' linguistic mechanisms are challenged. This groundbreaking new book is for specialists in Southeast Asian linguistics as well as scholars of descriptive semantics and pragmatics, grammaticalisation, linguistic change and evolution, areal linguistics and language contact, history and linguistic anthropology.
Conceptual Transfer As An Areal Factor
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Author : Stefanie Siebenhütter
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-11-18
Conceptual Transfer As An Areal Factor written by Stefanie Siebenhütter and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
By analyzing conceptual transfer this volume offers new insight in areal linguistics. Mainland Southeast Asia unifies great linguistic richness consisting of numerous languages and countless varieties of genetically diverse language families. Nevertheless, the area is known as a prime example for linguistic convergence. Exemplified by spatial reference in Thai, Khmer, Lao and Vietnamese, this study reveals conceptual borrowing due to language contact as an areal defining feature. The results from the field-based data analysis may help answer what extent cultural impact can be used as evidence for the existence of linguistic areas. A speaker’s cultural background might have a stronger impact on the choice of spatial language encoding than expected. Method and structure of argumentation can provide a model for similar questions addressing the existence of linguistic areas as well as to other cognitive dimensions within the Southeast Asian area under consideration. Therefore, the study can be seen as a significant contribution to analyze possibly existing conceptual areas empirically and exemplarily. Additionally, the investigation can serve as an important complement to empirical assumptions of conceptual transfer.
The Languages Of East And Southeast Asia
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Author : Cliff Goddard
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2005-07-14
The Languages Of East And Southeast Asia written by Cliff Goddard and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-14 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It contains wide-ranging and accessible discussions of every important aspect of the languages of the region, including word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems, and communicative styles. Students of linguistics will welcome the book's treatments of celebrated East Asian features such as classifiers, serial verb constructions, tones, topic-prominence, and honorifics. It shows students of particular Asian languages how their language fits structurally and culturally into the regional language mosaic. With its exercises, solutions, glossary, and many fascinating cases and insights, the book is an ideal introduction to descriptive and field linguistics. Cliff Goddard writes with great clarity and an eye for interesting examples. His book will appeal to all those with a serious interest in the languages and cultures of the region.
English In Southeast Asia And Asean
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Author : Azirah Hashim
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-16
English In Southeast Asia And Asean written by Azirah Hashim and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language habitats. Addressing the history, developmental stages and contacts with other languages, it provides in-depth information on the region and its political organization. In doing so, it analyzes the geo-political division of the region between former Anglophone and non-Anglophone colonies and shows that this distinction has led to considerable differences in the status and texture of English. This analysis includes the role and impact of American English in mainland and maritime Southeast Asia to highlight the linguistic properties of English and its linguistic and sociopolitical development, English used in specific domains, language policies and concludes with the future of English and future challenges. This book therefore provides an integrative survey of the various roles of English in ASEAN member states and studies the transformation of entire language habitats, including the major national and regional languages that participate in this process. It also explains how new societies emerge with their conflicting identities and their aspirations to act regionally or even globally and is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of World Englishes, Asian Studies and those interested in language contact, policy and planning.
Bibliography And Index Of Mainland Southeast Asian Languages And Linguistics
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Author : Franklin E. Huffman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Bibliography And Index Of Mainland Southeast Asian Languages And Linguistics written by Franklin E. Huffman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Asia, Southeastern categories.