The languages of East and Southeast Asia : an introduction / Cliff Goddard.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-306) and index.

"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 publisher.

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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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