The languages of East and Southeast Asia : an introduction /

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"This book introduces the linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It contains treatments of diverse areas including: word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems and communicative style"--Provided by...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goddard, Cliff
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Linguistics > East Asia.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Southeast Asian Languages.
Language and languages
Linguistics
Austronesische talen.
Khmer (taal)
Tibeto-Birmaanse talen.
Kadai-talen.
Hmong-Miën-talen.
Chinees.
Japans.
East Asia > Languages.
East Asia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Maps and Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Conventions and Symbols
  • CHAPTER 1: The languages of East and Southeast Asia: a First Look
  • 1.1 Introductory Remarks
  • 1.2 Lack of Inflection
  • 1.3 Word Order (Constituent Order)
  • 1.3.1 Verb-medial, Verb-Final, and Verb-Initial Languages
  • 1.3.2 Prepositions or Postpositions?
  • 1.3.3 Word Order in Questions
  • 1.4 Sounds and Writing
  • 1.5 Lexical Tone
  • 1.6 Classifier Constructions
  • 1.7 Serial Verb Constructions.
  • 1.8 Multiple Pronouns and Other Systems of Address
  • 1.9 Honorific Forms
  • 1.10 Other Common Features
  • Key technical terms
  • CHAPTER 2: Language Families, Linguistic Areas and Language Situations
  • 2.1 What is a Language Family?
  • 2.2 The Major Language Families of East and Southeast Asia
  • 2.2.1 Austronesian
  • 2.2.2 Mon-Khmer
  • 2.2.3 Tibeto-Burman
  • 2.2.4 Tai-Kadai
  • 2.2.5 Hmong-Mien
  • 2.2.6 Sinitic
  • 2.2.7 Japanese, Korean, and Ainu
  • 2.3 Mainland Southeast Asia as a Linguistic Area
  • 2.4 Language Situations
  • 2.4.1 Insular Southeast Asia
  • 2.4.2 Mainland Southeast Asia.
  • 2.4.3 China
  • 2.4.4 Korea and Japan
  • Key technical terms
  • CHAPTER 3: Words: Origins, Structures, Meanings
  • 3.1 Loans as Indicators of Cultural History
  • 3.1.1 A Short History of English Loan Words
  • 3.1.2 Malay: Malaysian and Indonesian
  • 3.1.3 Mainland Southeast Asia
  • 3.1.4 The Influence of China
  • 3.2 Word Structure: Derivational Morphology
  • 3.2.1 Compounding
  • 3.2.2 Abbreviation and Blending
  • 3.2.3 Reduplication
  • 3.2.4 Derivational Affixation
  • 3.2.5 Productive Derivation
  • 3.3 Meaning Differences Between Languages
  • 3.3.1 Different Patterns of Polysemy.
  • 3.3.2 Different Meanings for "Simple" Things and Actions
  • 3.3.3 Culturally Based Specialization in the Lexicon
  • 3.4 Cultural Key Words
  • 3.4.1 Some Key Words of Malay: Malu and Sabar
  • 3.4.2 Some Key Words of Chinese: xiào and rěn
  • 3.4.3 Some key words of Japanese: Amae and Omoiyari
  • Key technical terms
  • CHAPTER 4: Grammatical Topics
  • 4.1 Classifier Constructions Revisited
  • 4.1.1 Classifiers and Classifier Phrases
  • 4.1.2 A Closer Look
  • 4.1.3 Other Functions of Classifiers
  • 4.1.4 Classifiers, Prototypes, and Polysemy
  • 4.2 Aspect
  • 4.2.1 What is Aspect?
  • 4.2.2 Aspect Marking in Sinitic Languages
  • 4.2.3 Aspect Marking in Lai Chin and Malaysian
  • 4.2.4 Other Verbal Categories
  • 4.3 Serial Verb Constructions
  • 4.3.1 Loose vs. Tight Serialization
  • 4.3.2 Quasi-Adverbs and Verb-Prepositions
  • 4.4 Subject and Topic
  • 4.4.1 Topic Prominence
  • 4.4.2 Trigger Constructions in Austronesian Languages
  • 4.4.3 Actor vs. Undergoer Marking in Acehnese
  • 4.4.4 Reprise
  • 4.5 Sentence-Final (Illocutionary) Particles
  • Key technical terms
  • CHAPTER 5: The soundscape of East and Southeast Asia
  • 5.1 Phoneme Systems
  • 5.1.1 Insular Southeast Asia.

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