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Selected Papers on Comparative Tai Studies
Author | : William J. Gedney |
Publsiher | : U of M Center for South East Asian Studi |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106008867852 |
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Twelve papers on comparative Tai studies, most previously unpublished, make up this collection of articles by the renowned linguist William J. Gedney
Selected Papers on Comparative Tai Studies
Author | : William J. Gedney |
Publsiher | : U of M Center for South East Asian Studi |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : UVA:X001507740 |
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Twelve papers on comparative Tai studies, most previously unpublished, make up this collection of articles by the renowned linguist William J. Gedney
William J Gedney s Comparative Tai Source Book
Author | : Thomas John Hudak |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2007-12-03 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780824831905 |
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This volume provides accurate and reliable data from 1,159 common cognates found in 19 dialects from the Tai language family. Originally collected by noted Tai linguist, the late William J. Gedney, the data are organized into the three branches of the Tai language family, the Southwestern, the Central, and the Northern, to facilitate comparisons among the various sound systems within the individual branches and within the Tai language family as a whole. Supplementing the cognates are phonological descriptions of each of the dialects. Included among the nineteen dialects are Siamese, White Tai, Black Tai, Shan, Lue, Yay, Saek, and dialects found at Leiping, Lungming, Pingsiang, and Ningming in China. The meticulous attention paid to consonants, vowels, and tones found in each cognate will allow for further dialect studies, for the investigation of questions concerning the tripartite division of the Tai language family, and for the continuing investigation into the reconstruction of the Proto-Tai language family and its wider genetic relationships.
Variation and Reconstruction
Author | : Thomas D. Cravens |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2006-04-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027285256 |
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The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. The articles in the present volume consider this relationship from a number of different angles, with a number of different focuses. Several of the papers discuss evidence from Germanic, either Proto-Germanic (Joseph, Schwink), or daughter languages such as Dutch (Goss & Howell), Afrikaans (Roberge), Newcastle English (Milroy), and a Wisconsin German dialect (Geiger & Salmons). Other papers look at Italian (Cravens), Spanish (Harris-Northall), and the non-Indo-European languages or families Aramaic (Miller), and Proto-Hmong-Mien (Ratliff), and the Southeast Asian languages Phan Rang Cham and Tsat (Thurgood). In doing so they bring together a number of interconnected issues which are of current concern in comparative and historical linguistics.
The Tai Kadai Languages
Author | : Anthony Diller,Jerry Edmondson,Yongxian Luo |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2004-11-30 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781135791162 |
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The Routledge Language Family Series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, or those with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistics anthropology and language development. With close to 100 million speakers, Tai-Kadai constitutes one of the world's major language families. The Tai-Kadai Languages provides a unique, comprehensive, single-volume tome covering much needed grammatical descriptions in the area. It presents an important overview of Thai that includes extensive cross-referencing to other sections of the volume and sign-posting to sources in the bibliography. The volume also includes much new material on Lao and other Tai-Kadai languages, several of which are described here for the first time. Much-needed and highly useful, The Tai-Kadai Languages is a key work for professionals and students in linguistics, as well as anthropologists and area studies specialists. ANTHONY V. N. DILLER is Foundation Director of the National Thai Studies Centre, at the Australian National University. JEROLD A. EDMONDSON is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas Arlington and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Scholars. YONGXIAN LUO is Senior Lecturer in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Linguistic Society.
The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia
Author | : Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 983 |
Release | : 2021-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110558142 |
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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.
Language Contacts in Prehistory
Author | : Henning Andersen |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1588113795 |
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Every language includes layers of lexical and grammatical elements that entered it at different times in the more or less distant past. Hence, for periods preceding our earliest historical documentation, linguistic stratigraphy the systematic study of such layers may yield information about the prehistory of a given tradition of speaking in a variety of ways. For instance, irregular phonological reflexes may be evidence of the convergence of diverse dialects in the formation of a language, and layers of material from different source languages may form a record of changing cultural contacts in the past. In this volume are discussed past problems and current advances in the stratigraphy of Indo-European, African, Southeast Asian, Australian, Oceanic, Japanese, and Meso-American languages.
Atlas of the World s Languages
Author | : R.E. Asher,Christopher Moseley |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781317851097 |
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Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.