A Comparative West Bahnaric Dictionary
Author : Pascale Jacq
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
A Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric: West Bahnaric
Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Book Description
This book is the first in a planned series that will form a multi-fascicled Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric offering a reconstruction of the phonology and lexicon of each sub-group of the Bahnaric family (West Bahnaric, Central Bahnaric, North Bahnaric), and a consolidated reconstruction of Proto Bahnaric and discussion of its place within the Mon-Khmer family. The West Bahnaric sub-branch is the smallest with perhaps 100,000 speakers living in the three southern Lao provinces of Champassak, Attapeu and Sekong and adjacent areas of Cambodia. Historically it has been heavily influenced by Khmer and Katuic languages such as Ta'Oi. These days most speakers are bilingual in Lao, and there is a serious danger that Lao will replace the West Bahnaric languages entirely. The historical reconstruction offered here includes 1094 sets of lexical comparisons, with reconstructed proto-forms and extensive etymological commentary. Special attention has been given to the effects of language contact and borrowing in the formation of Proto West Bahnaric.
A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary
Author : H. L. Shorto
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Mon-Khmer languages
ISBN :
Book Description
The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages (2 vols)
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004283579
Book Description
The Handbook of the Austroasiatic Languages is the first comprehensive reference work on this important language family of South and Southeast Asia. Austroasiatic languages are spoken by more than 100 million people, from central India to Vietnam, from Malaysia to Southern China, including national language Cambodian and Vietnamese, and more than 130 minority communities, large and small. The handbook comprises two parts, Overviews and Grammar Sketches: Part 1) The overview chapters cover typology, classification, historical reconstruction, plus a special overview of the Munda languages. Part 2) Some 27 scholars present grammar sketches of 21 languages, representing 12 of the 13 branches. The sketches are carefully prepared according to the editors’ unifying typological approach, ensuring analytical and notational comparability throughout.
Languages of the Himalayas
Author : George van Driem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9004514929
Book Description
The Cham of Vietnam
Author : Tran Ky Phuong
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 997169459X
Book Description
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.
Studies in Contact Linguistics
Author : Glenn G. Gilbert
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 24,48 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780820479347
Book Description
Original Scholarly Monograph
Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity
Author : John H. McWhorter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1934078409
Book Description
In John McWhorter’s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publications since the 1990s have argued that all languages of the world that lack a certain three traits together are creoles (i.e. born as pidgins a few hundred years ago and fleshed out into real languages). He also argued that in light of their pidgin birth, such languages are less grammatically complex than others, as the result of their recent birth as pidgins. These two claims have been highly controversial among creolists as well as other linguists. In this volume, Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity, McWhorter gathers articles he has written since then, in the wake of responses from a wide range of creolists and linguists. These articles represent a considerable divergence in direction from his earlier work.
The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia
Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110558149
Book Description
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.
A Handbook of Comparative Bahnaric
Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Bahnar language
ISBN :
