The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia : : A comprehensive guide / / ed. by Paul Sidwell, Mathias Jenny.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Allassonnière-Tang, Marc,; Alves, Mark J.,; Bellwood, Peter,; Bisang, Walter,; Bradley, David,; Brunelle, Marc,; Cobo Castillo, Cristina,; DeLancey, Scott,; Fuller, Dorian Q.,; Higham, Charles F. W.,; Hill, Nathan W.,; Hoogervorst, Tom,; Jenny, Mathias,; Kato, Atsuhiko,; Kosonen, Kimmo,; Kurabe, Keita,; Miller, Carolyn P.,; Norquest, Peter,; Pacquement, Jean,; Person, Kirk R.,; Person, Kirk,; Pittayaporn, Pittayawat,; Ratliff, Martha,; Reid, Lawrence A.,; Sidwell, Paul,; Siebenhütter, Stefanie,; Simpson, Andrew,; Strecker, David,; Taguchi, Yoshihisa,; Thurgood, Graham,; Thành Tấn, Tạ,; Van Bik, Kenneth,; Vittrant, Alice,; Williams, Jeffrey P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Jenny, Mathias,; Sidwell, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The World of Linguistics [WOL] ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XV, 968 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Neolithic occupation of Southeast Asia -- 3 Homelands and dispersal histories of Mainland Southeast Asian language families: a multidisciplinary perspective -- 4 The origins and spread of cereal agriculture in Mainland Southeast Asia -- 5 History of MSEA Austroasiatic studies -- 6 History of Tai-Kadai studies -- 7 Scholarship on Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) languages of South East Asia -- 8 Historiography of Hmong-Mien linguistics -- 9 French contributions to the study of Mainland Southeast Asian languages and linguistics -- 10 The SIL contribution to language and linguistics in Mainland Southeast Asia -- 11 Classification of MSEA Austroasiatic languages -- 12 Classifying Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) languages -- 13 Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages -- 14 Classification and historical overview of Hmong-Mien languages -- 15 Language macro-families and distant phylogenetic relations in MSEA -- 16 Typological profile of Hmong-Mien languages -- 17 Typological profile of Burmic languages -- 18 Typological profile of Karenic languages -- 19 Typological profile of Kuki-Chin languages -- 20 Typological profile of the Kachin languages -- 21 Typological profile of Kra-Dai languages -- 22 Typological profile of Vietic -- 23 Northern Austroasiatic languages of MSEA -- 24 Eastern Austroasiatic languages -- 25 The national languages of MSEA: Burmese, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese -- 26 South Asian influence on the languages of Southeast Asia -- 27 Linguistic influence of Chinese in Southeast Asia -- 28 The influence of contact between Austroasiatic and Austronesian -- 29 Register in languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: the state of the art -- 30 Contact and convergence in the semantics of MSEA -- 31 Classifiers in Southeast Asian languages -- 32 Grammaticalization in Mainland Southeast Asian languages -- 33 Expressives in languages of Mainland Southeast Asia -- 34 Pragmatics and syntax in the languages of MSEA -- 35 MSEA epigraphy -- 36 Writing systems of MSEA -- 37 Language policy and planning in Mainland Southeast Asia -- 38 Language and the building of nations in Southeast Asia -- Subject index -- Language index