The Languages and Linguistics of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Title | The Languages and Linguistics of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Palmer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783110286298 |
Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific, broadly the Austronesian world, is home to considerable language diversity. This volume surveys the region, with chapters on Formosa, the Philippines, the major island groups of Indonesia and island Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and the Chamic languages. Other chapters discuss the syntactic and phonological significance of the region's languages, its pidgins and creoles, and Malay as a lingua franca.
Comparative Linguistics in Southeast Asia
Title | Comparative Linguistics in Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Ilia Peiros |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
Title | The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | N. J. Enfield |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 571 |
Release | 2021-04-01 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1108758401 |
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.
The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia
Title | The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Sidwell |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 1261 |
Release | 2021-08-23 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 311055612X |
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 Languages of East and Southeast Asia
Title | The Languages of East and Southeast Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Cliff Goddard |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199273111 |
"This book introduces the linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It contains treatments of diverse areas including: word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems and communicative style" --Provided by publisher.
The Austronesian Languages
Title | The Austronesian Languages PDF eBook |
Author | R. A. Blust |
Publisher | Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu |
Total Pages | 864 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
A Survey of Materials for the Study of the Uncommonly Taught Languages: Languages of Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Title | A Survey of Materials for the Study of the Uncommonly Taught Languages: Languages of Southeast Asia and the Pacific PDF eBook |
Author | Center for Applied Linguistics |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 84 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Languages, Modern |
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