From Ancient Cham To Modern Dialects
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From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects
Author | : Graham Thurgood |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0824821319 |
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Based on a reconstruction of ancient Chamic, with care taken to identify inherited Austronesian words as well as loan words and their sources, this text points out what the linguistic evidence tells us about the history of the region, and sketches the major consequences of historical contact on linguistic change in the history of Chamic.
A Grammatical Sketch of Hainan Cham
Author | : Graham Thurgood,Ela Thurgood,Li Fengxiang |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2014-06-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781614516040 |
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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.
The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
Author | : K. Alexander Adelaar,Nikolaus Himmelmann |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780700712861 |
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An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
The Cham of Vietnam
Author | : Tran Ky Phuong,Bruce Lockhart |
Publsiher | : NUS Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789971694593 |
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The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. Written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, art history, and linguistics, these essays reassess the ways that the Cham have been studied.
Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages
Author | : James N. Stanford,Dennis R. Preston |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2009-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027289780 |
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Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.
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.
Vi t Nam
Author | : Ben Kiernan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195160765 |
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This comprehensive work traces Viet Nam's history, a narrative of a multi-ethnic, multi-religious heritage, from ancient chiefdoms to imperial provinces, from independent kingdoms to contending regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics. This book narrates the history of the different peoples who have lived in the three major regions of Viet Nam over the past 3,000 years. It brings to life their relationships with these regions' landscapes, water resources, and climatic conditions, their changing cultures and religious traditions, and their interactions with their neighbors in China and Southeast Asia. Key themes include the dramatic impact of changing weather patterns from ancient to medieval and modern times, the central importance of riverine and maritime communications, ecological and economic transformations, and linguistic and literary changes. The country's long experience of regional diversity, multi-ethnic populations, and a multi-religious heritage that ranges from local spirit cults to the influences of Buddhism, Confucianism and Catholicism, makes for a vividly pluralistic narrative. The arcs of Vietnamese history include the rise and fall of different political formations, from chiefdoms to Chinese provinces, from independent kingdoms to divided regions, civil wars, French colonies, and modern republics. In the twentieth century anticolonial nationalism, the worldwide depression, Japanese occupation, a French attempt at reconquest, the traumatic American-Vietnamese war, and the 1975 communist victory all set the scene for the making of contemporary Viet Nam. Rapid economic growth in recent decades has transformed this one-party state into a global trading nation. Yet its rich history still casts a long shadow. Along with other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Viet Nam is now involved in a tense territorial standoff in the South China Sea, as a rival of China and a " of the United States. If its independence and future geographical unity seem assured, Viet Nam's regional security and prospects for democracy remain clouded.
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.