Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia : : The State of the Art / / ed. by N.J. Enfield, Bernard Comrie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Alves, Mark J,; Blench, Roger,; Brunelle, Marc,; Butler, Becky,; Comrie, Bernard,; Enfield, N. J.,; Gil, David,; Jenny, Mathias,; Kirby, James,; Matisoff, James A.,; Pittayaporn, Pittayawat,; Post, Mark W.,; Ratliff, Martha,; Sidwell, Paul,; Sousa, Hilário de,; Vittrant, Alice,
• HerausgeberIn: Comrie, Bernard,; Enfield, N.J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Pacific Linguistics [PL] , 649
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (662 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501501685; 9783110649826; 9783110762518; 9783110700985; 9783110742961; 9783110439687; 9783110438710
• ISSN: 1448-8310
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501501685
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by N.J. Enfield, Bernard Comrie.

The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several studies address questions of language relatedness, often challenging conventional assumptions about the status of language contact as an explanatory factor in accounting for linguistic similarities. Several address the question of Mainland Southeast Asia as a linguistic area, exploring new ways to imagine and define the boundaries, and indeed the boundedness, of a Mainland Southeast Asia area. Two contributions rethink the received notion of the 'sesquisyllable' with new empirical and theoretical angles. And a set of chapters explores topics in the morphology and syntax of the region's languages, sometimes challenging orthodox assumptions and claims about what a typical language of Mainland Southeast Asia is like. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with a substantial overview of current knowledge and new directions by the volume editors N. J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this book will serve as an authoritative source on where the linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and where it is heading.