
Title:
Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia : The State of the Art
Author:
Alves, Mark J, contributor.
ISBN:
9781501501685
Physical Description:
1 online resource (662 p.)
Series:
Pacific Linguistics [PL] , 649
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Mainland Southeast Asian languages -- Part 1: Language relatedness in MSEA -- Word-initial prenasalization in Southeast Asia -- Local drift and areal convergence in the restructuring of Mainland Southeast Asian languages -- Re-assessing tonal diversity and geographical convergence in Mainland Southeast Asia -- Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho -- Part 2: Boundaries of the MSEA area -- The far West of Southeast Asia -- Morphosyntactic reconstruction in an arealhistorical context -- The Mekong-Mamberamo linguistic area -- The Far Southern Sinitic languages as part of Mainland Southeast Asia -- Part 3: Defining the sesquisyllable -- Approaching a phonological understanding of the sesquisyllable with phonetic evidence from Khmer and Bunong -- Typologizing sesquisyllabicity -- Part 4: Explorations in MSEA morphosyntax -- Morphological functions among Mon-Khmer languages -- The origins of nominal classification markers in MSEA languages -- Expressing motion -- Subject index -- Author index -- Place index -- Language index
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