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Author: William J. Gedney
Publisher: U of M Center for South East Asian Studi
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 558
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twelve papers on comparative Tai studies, most previously unpublished, make up this collection of articles by the renowned linguist William J. Gedney
Author: William J. Gedney
Publisher: U of M Center for South East Asian Studi
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 560
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twelve papers on comparative Tai studies, most previously unpublished, make up this collection of articles by the renowned linguist William J. Gedney
Author: Thomas John Hudak
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2007-12-03
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 082483190X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume provides accurate and reliable data from 1,159 common cognates found in 19 dialects from the Tai language family. Originally collected by noted Tai linguist, the late William J. Gedney, the data are organized into the three branches of the Tai language family, the Southwestern, the Central, and the Northern, to facilitate comparisons among the various sound systems within the individual branches and within the Tai language family as a whole. Supplementing the cognates are phonological descriptions of each of the dialects. Included among the nineteen dialects are Siamese, White Tai, Black Tai, Shan, Lue, Yay, Saek, and dialects found at Leiping, Lungming, Pingsiang, and Ningming in China. The meticulous attention paid to consonants, vowels, and tones found in each cognate will allow for further dialect studies, for the investigation of questions concerning the tripartite division of the Tai language family, and for the continuing investigation into the reconstruction of the Proto-Tai language family and its wider genetic relationships.
Author: Thomas D. Cravens
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 902724782X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The relation of language variation to reconstructed languages and to the methodology of reconstruction has long been neglected. In this volume, the relationship between language and variation is considered from a number of different angles, looking at evidence from various language families. In doing so, the papers in this volume address a number of interconnected issues which are of current concern in comparative and historical linguistics.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-07-24
Total Pages: 746
ISBN-13: 9004643257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anthony Diller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-11-30
Total Pages: 637
ISBN-13: 1135791155
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Routledge Language Family Series is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates of linguistics and language, or those with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistics anthropology and language development. With close to 100 million speakers, Tai-Kadai constitutes one of the world's major language families. The Tai-Kadai Languages provides a unique, comprehensive, single-volume tome covering much needed grammatical descriptions in the area. It presents an important overview of Thai that includes extensive cross-referencing to other sections of the volume and sign-posting to sources in the bibliography. The volume also includes much new material on Lao and other Tai-Kadai languages, several of which are described here for the first time. Much-needed and highly useful, The Tai-Kadai Languages is a key work for professionals and students in linguistics, as well as anthropologists and area studies specialists. ANTHONY V. N. DILLER is Foundation Director of the National Thai Studies Centre, at the Australian National University. JEROLD A. EDMONDSON is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas Arlington and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Scholars. YONGXIAN LUO is Senior Lecturer in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Linguistic Society.
Author: N.J. Enfield
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2008-09-25
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 3110207532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lao is the national language of Laos, and is also spoken widely in Thailand and Cambodia. It is a tone language of the Tai-Kadai family (Southwestern Tai branch). Lao is an extreme example of the isolating, analytic language type. This book is the most comprehensive grammatical description of Lao to date. It describes and analyses the important structures of the language, including classifiers, sentence-final particles, and serial verb constructions. Special attention is paid to grammatical topics from a semantic, pragmatic, and typological perspective.
Author: R.E. Asher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-19
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1317851099
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Author: Tian Qiao Lu
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1612331440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph describes and analyzes the syntax of classifiers and cultural taxonomy in more than 20 major languages in southern China and Southeast Asia. It provides comprehensive and in-depth data for professional linguists and rudimental knowledge for postgraduate or undergraduate majors or minors engaged in linguistics. Readers will learn how nouns are categorized in syntax and what cultural factors are involved in such a classification process. This is the first book on Kam-Tai classifiers from both syntactic and sociocultural aspects.
Author: Mayoury Ngaosyvathn
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1501732544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A reexamination of the historical relationship between Laos and Thailand, by two preeminent Lao historians who bring to light a wealth of new source material in their evaluation of the Laotian leader, Chao Anou, and his failed revolt against Siam. This book challenges conventional Thai interpretations of that event and of the political conflicts leading up to it.
