Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia

List of contents

List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Preface; 1. Context; 2. Language Histories and Classifications; 3. Typological Overview; 4. Phonological systems; 5. Word formation; 6. Reference and Nominal Syntax; 7. Predication and Clausal Syntax; Postface; References; Index.

About the author

N. J. Enfield is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His publications include Linguistic Epidemiology (2003), 'Areal linguistics and mainland Southeast Asia' (Annual Review of Anthropology, 2005), A Grammar of Lao (2007), Dynamics of Human Diversity (2011) and Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia (co-authored with Bernard Comrie, 2015). He is working on a reference grammar of Kri, a Vietic language spoken in Laos.

Product details

• Authors: N J Enfield, N. J. (University of Sydney) Enfield, Enfield N. J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108476331
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47633-1
• No. of pages: 466
• Series: Cambridge Language Surveys
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology