Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : vi
Pages : 828
Book Description
6th Pan-Asiatic International Symposium on Linguistics
Author: Linguistics of Vietnamese
Author: Daniel HolePublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110289415
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The present collection of articles grew out of a workshop on Vietnamese linguistics in 2009 at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. To our knowledge, no workshop with a comparable scope has been held outside of Vietnam for the past 20 years, or even longer. Given the important typological status of Vietnamese as a paradigm case of an isolating language, the volume covers the most relevant fields in linguistics: syntax, semantics, phonology, and the lexicon. A guiding principle in assembling the chapters for this volume has been to take an inclusive stance as far as the commitment to different frameworks and research methodologies is concerned. All the contributors are proponents of recent developments in their individual areas of specialization. The editors have taken special care to cater for a readership which should be as broad as possible. This means that each contribution is self-contained and does not presuppose any knowledge of Vietnamese. The volume is recommended to general linguistis, comparative linguists, typologists and to researchers specializing in languages of East and South East Asia.
Pan-Asiatic Linguistics
Author: Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004425608
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004643257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-linguistic Perspective
Author: Yaron MatrasPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110196283
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Review text: "Grammatical Borrowing is a must for every student of language contact. It is hoped that from this laudable project a methodological and empirical revolution of language contact studies will result."In: STUF 63.2/2010.
The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar
Author: K. Alexander AdelaarPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0700712860
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
Journal of Southeast Asian Languages and Culture
Author: Philip N. JennerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mon-Khmer languages
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
A Grammar of Southern Min
Author: Weirong ChenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501511505
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Southern Min (also known as Hokkien or Minnan) is a major branch of Chinese spoken mainly in Fujian and Taiwan, but also in Guangdong, Hainan and Hong Kong, as well as in many countries of Southeast Asia. Highly conservative in its linguistic profile, it is considered by many scholars to be a living language fossil due to the preservation of many archaic features that reflect its long-lasting history and culture. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive study of Southern Min using a typological framework, as the tendency is to base analyses on the model of Mandarin Chinese, the standard language. This grammar aims to present a systematic description of the Hui'an variety of Southern Min, mainly based on data collected via naturally occurring conversation. The volume includes four parts: nominal structure, predicate structure, clause structure and complex sentences, as well as a brief overview of phonology. It will have great appeal for heritage speakers, graduate students and scholars in both Chinese linguistics and typology.
Ethnosyntax : Explorations in Grammar and Culture
Author: N. J. EnfieldPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191581798
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book provides a fresh and original approach to the 'ethnosyntax' concept - the proposition that the grammar of a language is intimately linked to the culture of its speakers. It focuses on three related questions: how far culture accounts for linguistic variation; how culture and grammar are connected; and to what extent one may constitute the other. It looks, for example, at the ways in which grammatical (including semantic) resources may be constrained by social values, and at the possible sociocultural significance of grammatical devices. The chapters add up to an important and timely contribution to the renewed debate among linguists and anthropologists on the relationship between grammar, culture, and cognition. The authors represent a wide range of research traditions, some of which have not until now explicitly addressed the grammar and culture issue. They consider the subject in the context of a wide range of cultures in North America, Europe, and Australasia. The clarity and accessibility of their writing, together with Dr Enfield's introduction to the field, make this not only a work or original value and impeccable scholarship, but an excellent modern textbook on a subject of enduring fascination in linguistics and anthropology.