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
• Yayın Tarihi: 2021
• Dil: English
• Seri Bilgileri: The World of Linguistics [WOL] ; 8
• Fiziksel Özellikler: 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 docum...

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