Table of Contents
Preface James A. Matisoff V
Introduction: Languages of the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area - Grammatical Sketches Alice Vittrant Justin Watkins 1
1 Areal linguistics 1
2 Establishing the existence of the Mainland Southeast Asian linguistic area 3
3 Structure of the book 5
References 8
Bangladesh Khumi David A. Peterson 12
Introduction 12
1 Phonology 13
2 Morphology 19
3 Grammar and Syntax 24
4 Semantics and pragmatics 42
5 Summary 45
Abbreviations 45
References 47
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 48
Appendix 2 Interlinearized Text 50
Burmese Alice Vittrant 56
Introduction 56
1 Phonology 59
2 Morphology 67
3 Grammar and Syntax 81
4 Semantics and pragmatics 109
5 Summary 112
Abbreviations 113
References 114
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 121
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 123
Pwo Karen Atsuhiko Kato 131
Introduction 131
1 Phonology 133
2 Morphology 135
3 Grammar and syntax 140
4 Semantics and pragmatics 164
5 Summary 167
Abbreviations 168
References 169
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 171
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 173
Southern Min Hilary Chappell 176
Introduction 176
1 Phonology 181
2 Morphology 187
3 Grammar and Syntax 196
4 Conclusion and summary 219
Acknowledgements 221
Abbreviations 222
References 223
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 227
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 229
Yongning Na (Mosuo) Liberty Lidz 234
Introduction 234
1 Phonology 236
2 Morphology 238
3 Grammar and Syntax 243
4 Semantics and pragmatics 260
5 Conclusion 264
Abbreviations 265
References 267
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 270
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 272
Appendix 3 Map 1 276
Mon Mathias Jenny 277
Introduction 277
1 Phonology 279
2 Word structure 283
3 Syntactic structure 289
4 Semantics and pragmatics 309
5 Conclusion 312
Abbreviations 313
References 313
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 314
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 316
Khmer John Haiman 320
Introduction 320
1 Phonology 321
2 Morphology 327
3 Grammar and syntax 344
4 Verbal domain 352
5 Semantics 369
6 Summary and conclusions 372
References 373
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 374
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 376
Vietnamese Danh Thành Do-Hurinvlle Huy Linh Dao 384
Introduction 384
1 Phonology 385
2 Morphology 389
3 Syntax 398
4 Semantics and pragmatics 416
Conclusion 420
Abbreviations 421
References 422
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 423
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 425
Wa (Paraok) Justin Watkins 432
Introduction 432
1 Phonology 434
2 Morphology 439
3 Grammar and Syntax 448
4 Semantics and pragmatics 460
5 Conclusion/summary 467
References 468
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 469
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 471
Malay Hiroki Nomoto Hooi Ling Soh 475
Introduction 475
1 Phonology 476
2 Morphology 480
3 Grammar and Syntax 489
4 Semantics and pragmatics 505
5 Conclusion/ summary 509
Abbreviations 510
References 511
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 516
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 518
Colloquial Eastern Cham Marc Bruneile Phú Van Han 523
1 Phonology 524
2 Morphology 531
3 Grammar and syntax 535
4 Semantics and pragmatics 545
5 Conclusion 548
Acknowledgements 549
Abbreviations 549
References 550
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 552
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 554
That Mathias Jenny 559
1 Phonology 561
2 Word structure 565
3 Syntactic structure 574
4 Semantics 597
5 Conclusion 600
Abbreviations 601
References 602
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 602
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 604
Hmong (Mong Leng) David Mortensen 609
1 Phonology 610
2 Morphology 613
3 Grammar and Syntax 622
4 Semantics and Pragmatics 639
5 Conclusion 643
Abbreviations 643
References 643
Appendix 1 Summary of linguistic features 645
Appendix 2 Text interlinearized 647
Appendix Guidelines for the description of Mainland Southeast Asian languages Alice Vittrant Justin Watkins 653
1 Phonology 653
2 Morphology 660
3 Grammar and Syntax 664
4 Semantics and pragmatics 675
5 Summary 679
Abbreviations 680
References 681
Maps
Map of language families 687
Map of fieldwork locations 688
Maps of pervasiveness of the shared features 689
Language Index 711
