The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A comprehensive guide

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2021

The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia

A comprehensive guide

Edited by: Paul Sidwell and Mathias Jenny

Volume 8 in the series The World of Linguistics [WOL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110558142

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Paul Sidwell, Canberra, Australia; Mathias Jenny, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Paul Sidwell and Mathias Jenny Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1 Introduction Paul Sidwell and Mathias Jenny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 The Neolithic occupation of Southeast Asia Charles F. W. Higham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3 Homelands and dispersal histories of Mainland Southeast Asian language families: a multidisciplinary perspective Peter Bellwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4 The origins and spread of cereal agriculture in Mainland Southeast Asia Dorian Q. Fuller and Cristina Cobo Castillo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
5 History of MSEA Austroasiatic studies Paul Sidwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
6 History of Tai-Kadai studies Paul Sidwell and Mathias Jenny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
7 Scholarship on Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) languages of South East Asia Nathan W. Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
8 Historiography of Hmong-Mien linguistics Yoshihisa Taguchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
9 French contributions to the study of Mainland Southeast Asian languages and linguistics Jean Pacquement, Paul Sidwell and Mathias Jenny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
10 The SIL contribution to language and linguistics in Mainland Southeast Asia Carolyn P. Miller and Kirk R. Person Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
11 Classification of MSEA Austroasiatic languages Paul Sidwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
12 Classifying Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) languages Scott DeLancey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
13 Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages Peter Norquest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
14 Classification and historical overview of Hmong-Mien languages Martha Ratliff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
15 Language macro-families and distant phylogenetic relations in MSEA Paul Sidwell and Lawrence A. Reid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
16 Typological profile of Hmong-Mien languages David Strecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
17 Typological profile of Burmic languages David Bradley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
18 Typological profile of Karenic languages Atsuhiko Kato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
19 Typological profile of Kuki-Chin languages Kenneth Van Bik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
20 Typological profile of the Kachin languages Keita Kurabe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
21 Typological profile of Kra-Dai languages Pittayawat Pittayaporn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
22 Typological profile of Vietic Mark J. Alves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
23 Northern Austroasiatic languages of MSEA Paul Sidwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
24 Eastern Austroasiatic languages Paul Sidwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	547
25 The national languages of MSEA: Burmese, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese Mathias Jenny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	599
26 South Asian influence on the languages of Southeast Asia Tom Hoogervorst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	623
27 Linguistic influence of Chinese in Southeast Asia Mark J. Alves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	649
28 The influence of contact between Austroasiatic and Austronesian Graham Thurgood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	673
29 Register in languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: the state of the art Marc Brunelle and Tạ Thành Tấn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	683
30 Contact and convergence in the semantics of MSEA Stefanie Siebenhütter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	707
31 Classifiers in Southeast Asian languages Alice Vittrant and Marc Allassonnière-Tang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	733
32 Grammaticalization in Mainland Southeast Asian languages Walter Bisang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	773
33 Expressives in languages of Mainland Southeast Asia Jeffrey P. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	811
34 Pragmatics and syntax in the languages of MSEA Mathias Jenny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	825
35 MSEA epigraphy Paul Sidwell and Mathias Jenny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	855
36 Writing systems of MSEA Mathias Jenny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	879
37 Language policy and planning in Mainland Southeast Asia Kimmo Kosonen and Kirk Person Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	907
38 Language and the building of nations in Southeast Asia Andrew Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	927
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	957
Language index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	965

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars interested in South East Asia Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics in General.
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 968
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 45
- Coloured Illustrations: 4
- Maps: 3
- Coloured Maps: 6
- Tables: 169
Keywords: Austroasiatic; Tai-Kadai; Tibeto-Burman; Austronaesian

eBook

Published: August 23, 2021
ISBN: 9783110558142

Hardcover

Published: August 23, 2021
ISBN: 9783110556063