Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia : : The State of the Art /

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

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Alves, Mark J,
Blench, Roger,
Brunelle, Marc,
Butler, Becky,
Comrie, Bernard,
Enfield, N. J.,
Gil, David,
Jenny, Mathias,
Kirby, James,
Matisoff, James A.,
Pittayaporn, Pittayawat,
Post, Mark W.,
Ratliff, Martha,
Sidwell, Paul,
Sousa, Hilário de,
Vittrant, Alice,
HerausgeberIn:
Comrie, Bernard,
Enfield, N.J.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Pacific Linguistics [PL] , 649
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Physical Description:1 online resource (662 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Mainland Southeast Asian languages
  • Part 1: Language relatedness in MSEA
  • 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
  • Part 2: Boundaries of the MSEA area
  • 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
  • Part 3: Defining the sesquisyllable
  • Approaching a phonological understanding of the sesquisyllable with phonetic evidence from Khmer and Bunong
  • Typologizing sesquisyllabicity
  • Part 4: Explorations in MSEA morphosyntax
  • 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

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