A Grammatical Sketch Of Hainan Cham
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A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham
Author | : Graham Thurgood,Ela Thurgood,Li Fengxiang |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781614518778 |
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This volume is a grammatical sketch of Hainan Cham, an endangered tonal Austronesian language. The study focuses on three areas: social background and contact history, the grammar (including all the recorded vocabulary), and a description of the sound system (including acoustic description). The appendixes also include the wordlist of Sanya Chinese forms and four analyzed texts.
Mainland Southeast Asian Languages
Author | : N. J. Enfield |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780521765442 |
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A concise introduction to the languages of mainland Southeast Asia that provides a new look at this unique area.
Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
Author | : N.J. Enfield,Bernard Comrie |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2015-03-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781501501685 |
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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 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 and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia
Author | : Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 1261 |
Release | : 2021-08-23 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783110556124 |
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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.
An Areal Typology of Agreement Systems
Author | : Ranko Matasović |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018-05-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781108420976 |
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The first areal-typological exploration of agreement systems in the world's languages.
The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact
Author | : Anthony P. Grant |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2020-01-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780199945108 |
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Every language has been influenced in some way by other languages. In many cases, this influence is reflected in words which have been absorbed from other languages as the names for newer items or ideas, such as perestroika, manga, or intifada (from Russian, Japanese, and Arabic respectively). In other cases, the influence of other languages goes deeper, and includes the addition of new sounds, grammatical forms, and idioms to the pre-existing language. For example, English's structure has been shaped in such a way by the effects of Norse, French, Latin, and Celtic--though English is not alone in its openness to these influences. Any features can potentially be transferred from one language to another if the sociolinguistic and structural circumstances allow for it. Further, new languages--pidgins, creoles, and mixed languages--can come into being as the result of language contact. In thirty-three chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Language Contact examines the various forms of contact-induced linguistic change and the levels of language which have provided instances of these influences. In addition, it provides accounts of how language contact has affected some twenty languages, spoken and signed, from all parts of the world. Chapters are written by experts and native-speakers from years of research and fieldwork. Ultimately, this Handbook provides an authoritative account of the possibilities and products of contact-induced linguistic change.
Jarai Clauses and Noun Phrases
Author | : Joshua Jensen |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2014-08-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781614516804 |
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The first published treatment of the syntax of Jarai, an Austronesian language of Southeast Asia, this volume focuses on the noun phrase and three regions of the clause: the left periphery, inflectional elements, and the verbal domain. Close attention is given to pseudo-cleft questions and serial verb constructions. Phenomena are carefully described, then analyzed within the Minimalist framework.
The Syntax of Relative Clauses
Author | : Guglielmo Cinque |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2020-09-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781108479707 |
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Drawing on a wide range of languages, Cinque argues that all relative clause types derive from a single, double-headed, structure.