Classifying the Austroasiatic Languages
Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Austroasiatic languages
ISBN :
The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia
Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 25,43 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.
The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages (2 vols)
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 24,91 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.
Austroasiatic Languages
Author : Jeremy H. C. S. Davidson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780728601833
Book Description
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
Author : N. J. Enfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1108758401
Book Description
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the most fascinating and complex cultural and linguistic areas in the world. This book provides a rich and comprehensive survey of the history and core systems and subsystems of the languages of this fascinating region. Drawing on his depth of expertise in mainland Southeast Asia, Enfield includes more than a thousand data examples from over a hundred languages from Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, bringing together a wealth of data and analysis that has not previously been available in one place. Chapters cover the many ways in which these languages both resemble each other, and differ from each other, and the diversity of the area's languages is highlighted, with a special emphasis on minority languages, which outnumber the national languages by nearly a hundred to one. The result is an authoritative treatment of a fascinating and important linguistic area.
Nominal Classification in Asia and Oceania
Author : Marc Allassonnière-Tang
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027249245
Book Description
Linguists have long been interested in systems of nominal classification due to their diverse functions as well as cognitive and cultural correlates. Among others, ongoing research has focused on semantic, functional and morphosyntactic properties of complex systems such as co-occurring gender and numeral classifiers. Such approaches have typically focused on the languages of north-western South America and Papua New Guinea. This volume proposes to fill in a gap in existing research by focusing on Asia, based on case studies from languages belonging to a wide range of families, i.e., Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Dravidian, Hmong-Mien, Indo-European, Mongolic, Sino-Tibetan and Tai-Kadai as well as the language isolate Nivkh. Gender and classifiers in these languages are approached within several different perspectives, i.e., functional, typological and diachronic, thus revealing complex patterns in their lexical and pragmatic functions as well as origin, development and loss. Describing and analysing such properties is a unique and innovative contribution of the volume.
Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004425608
Book Description
Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of diachronic Austroasiatic syntax, most of which contain new hypotheses, and several address topics that have never been dealt with before in print, such as clause structure and word order in the proto-language, and reconstruction of Munda morphology successfully integrating it into Austroasiatic language history. Also included is a list of proto-AA grammatical words with evaluative and contextualizing comments.
The Katuic Languages
Author : Paul Sidwell
Publisher :
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Katuic languages
ISBN : 9783895868023
Book Description
Classification and Index of the World's Languages
Author : Charles Frederick Voegelin
Publisher : Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Book Description
Classification of the world's languages; Reference.
The Munda Languages
Author : Gregory D.S. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1277 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1317828852
Book Description
The Munda group of languages of the Austroasiatic family are spoken within central and eastern India by almost ten million people. To date, they are the least well-known and least documented languages of the Indian subcontinent. This unprecedented and original work draws together a distinguished group of international experts in the field of Munda language research and presents current assessments of a wide range of typological and comparative-historical issues, providing agendas for future research. Representing the current state of Munda Linguistics, this volume provides detailed descriptions of almost all of the languages in the family, in addition to a brief chapter discussing the enigmatic Nihali language.
