Collected papers on Southeast
Asian and Pacific Languages
Bauer, Robert S. (ed.)
PL 530
The languages investigated
in these papers represent the five major language families
or subfamilies (depending on one's classification schema)
of mainland and insular Southeast Asia, viz., (1) Tibeto-Burman
with Meiteilon (Manipuri); (2) Mon-Khmer with Alak, Bru, Chatong,
Dak Kang, Kaseng, Katu, Laven, Lavi, Nge', Nyah Kur, Suai,
Ta Oi', Tariang, Tariw, Vietnamese, Yaeh; (3) Tai with Nung
An, Lao, and Hlai; (4) Austronesian with Chamorro; and (5)
the Malayo-Polynesian family itself. The eleven papers have
been classified under five broad linguistic topics: I. Linguistic
analysis with A.G. Khan's 'Impact of linguistic borrowing
on Meiteilon (Manipuri)'; N.J. Enfield's 'Functions of 'give'
and 'take' in Lao complex predicates'; and Sophana Srichampa's
'Vietnamese verbal reduplication'. II. Language classification
includes Jerold A. Edmondson's 'Nùng An: origin of a species';
Lawrence A. Reid's 'Morphosyntactic evidence for the position
of Chamorro in the Austronesian family'; and Theraphan L.-Thongkum's
'A brief look at the thirteen Mon-Khmer languages of Xekong
Province, Southern Laos'. III. Discourse analysis with John
and Carolyn Miller's 'The tiger mother's child and the cow
mother's child: a preliminary look at a Bru epic'; and Somsonge
Burusphat's 'The temporal movement of the hlai (li) origin
myth'. IV. Sociolinguistics with Suwilai Premsrirat's 'The
future of Nyah Kur'. V. Historical linguistics with Graham
Thurgood's 'A comment on Gedney's proposal for another series
of voiced initials in Proto Tai'; and Stanley Starosta's 'The
rise and fall and rise and fall of Proto Malayo-Polynesian'.
2002
ISBN 0 85883 528 2
x + 203 pp
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