Papers from the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1999
Author | : Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Meeting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Meeting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Meeting |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Nicole Kruspe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2004-04-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521814973 |
Semelai is a previously undescribed and endangered Aslian (Mon-Khmer) language of the Malay Peninsula. This book - the first in-depth description of an Aslian language - provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Semelai. Semelai intertwines two types of morphological system: a concatenative system of prefixes, suffixes and a circumfix - acquired through extended contact with Malay - and a nonconcatenative system of prefixes and infixes (including infix reduplication), inherited from Mon-Khmer. There are distinctive word classes - Nominals, Verbs and Expressives - the latter iconic utterances which simultaneously provide information about the predicate and its arguments. Semelai has many derivational processes which change word class or affect transitivity, and it combines both head-marking and dependent-marking profiles. It also has a rich phonemic system of 20 vowels and 32 consonants. Nicole Kruspe's discussion is complemented with a generous number of illustrative examples and texts, creating a reference work that will be welcomed by descriptivists and typologists alike.
Author | : Alice Vittrant |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 734 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110401983 |
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.
Author | : A.R. Coupe |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110198525 |
A Grammar of Mongsen Ao, the result of the author’s fieldwork over a ten-year period, presents the first comprehensive grammatical description of a language spoken in Nagaland, north-east India. The languages of this region remain under-documented for a number of historical reasons. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the widespread cultural practice of head-hunting discouraged outsiders from entering the Naga Hills. Shortly after Indian independence in 1947, an armed rebellion by Naga separatists and a government policy of restricting access to the troubled area ensured that Nagaland remained a difficult place to conduct research. In this context, A Grammar of Mongsen Ao offers valuable new insights into the structure of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in a linguistically little-known region of the world. The grammatical analysis documents all the functional domains of the language and includes four glossed and translated texts, the latter being of interest to anthropologists studying folklore. Mongsen Ao is a highly agglutinating, mostly suffixing language with predominantly dependent-marking characteristics. Its grammar demonstrates a number of typologically interesting features that are described in detail in the book. Among these is an unusual case marking system in which grammatical marking is motivated by semantic and pragmatic factors, and a rich verbal morphology that produces elaborate sequences of agglutinative suffixes. Grammaticalisation processes are also discussed where relevant, thereby extending the appeal of the book to linguists with interests in grammaticalisation theory. This book will be of value to any linguist seeking to clarify genetic relationships within the Tibeto-Burman family, and it will serve more broadly as a reference grammar for typologists interested in the typological features of a Tibeto-Burman language of north-east India.
Author | : Christopher I. Beckwith |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781433101397 |
This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as «cup» in «a cup of tea», classifiers such as «head» in «ten head of cattle», and other types, all of which occur in the pseudopartitive construction. Both measures and noun classification (the defining feature of classifiers) are thought to occur in all languages, so the phoronym is a linguistic universal. This book is the first to combine the two major theoretical approaches to the topic and includes the first detailed studies of group classifiers and repeaters, as well as the first study of classifiers in Finnish and Russian. It also covers class nouns and their components - which are connected grammatically and semantically to both classifiers and gender - and discusses possible connections of classifiers with sublinguistic cognition. The analysis focuses on Mandarin Chinese, English, Japanese, and Thai, but Finnish, Hungarian, Tibetan, Uzbek, and other languages are also discussed.
Author | : Cliff Goddard |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2005-07-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191037338 |
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.
Author | : Paul Sidwell |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 1261 |
Release | : 2021-08-23 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 311055612X |
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.
Author | : Paul Newman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2001-06-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521669375 |
Topics include the linguist's attitude, the work session and the roles of native speakers.
Author | : Philipp Strazny |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 1304 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1135455236 |
Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-specialized reader. Containing over 500 alphabetically arranged entries and an expansive glossary by a team of international scholars, the Encyclopedia of Linguistics explores the varied perspectives, figures, and methodologies that make up the field.