Linguistic Epidemiology Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics Series
Auteur : Enfield N.J.
This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese.
The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics. Gricean pragmatics, semantic change, grammaticalization, language contact, and areal linguistics. The book also examines how changes in the speech of individuals actually become changes in large-scale public convention, 'language contact' is reconsidered, and traditional distinctions such as that between 'internal' and 'external' linguistic mechanisms are challenged.
This groundbreaking new book is for specialists in Southeast Asian linguistics as well as scholars of descriptive semantics and pragmatics, grammaticalisation, linguistic change and evolution, areal linguistics and language contact, history and linguistic anthropology.
Part I: Preliminaries
Part II: Lao
Part III: Other sample languages
Part IV: Conclusion
Date de parution : 08-2014
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 10-2002
Ouvrage de 416 p.
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Linguistic Epidemiology :
Mots-clés :
mainland; southeast; asia; main; verb; asian; languages; mon; khmer; descriptive; Main Verb; Sinitic Languages; Mainland Southeast Asian Languages; Young Man; Main Verb Functions; Mainland Southeast Asia; Descriptive Complement; Resultative V2; Hmong Mien Language; Le Page; Tai Languages; V2 Position; Bridging Context; Comp; Sentence Final Particles; Mon Khmer Languages; Focus Particle; Tai Kadai; SwM; Resultative Construction; Semantic Change; Sentence Complement; Postverbal Modal; Tibeto Burman Languages; Clausal Head
