Papers from the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1994
Title | Papers from the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1994 PDF eBook |
Author | Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Meeting |
Publisher | Asu Center for Asian Research |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781881044161 |
Papers from the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1999
Title | Papers from the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1999 PDF eBook |
Author | Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Meeting |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
Papers from the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1997
Title | Papers from the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1997 PDF eBook |
Author | Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Meeting |
Publisher | Asu Center for Asian Research |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781881044338 |
The Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) is a forum for linguists focusing on languages of mainland and Pacific Southeast Asia. The 1997 edition, Papers from the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, compiles many relevant topics from the 1997 annual meeting which was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May of 1997 and covered a variety of linguistic topics pertaining to languages that include: Lai, Malay, Tai, Filipino, Mishmi, Khmer, Hmong, Burmese, and others.
Papers from the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1996
Title | Papers from the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1996 PDF eBook |
Author | Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Meeting |
Publisher | Asu Center for Asian Research |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781881044284 |
Phoronyms
Title | Phoronyms PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher I. Beckwith |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9781433101397 |
This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as «cup» in «a cup of tea», classifiers such as «head» in «ten head of cattle», and other types, all of which occur in the pseudopartitive construction. Both measures and noun classification (the defining feature of classifiers) are thought to occur in all languages, so the phoronym is a linguistic universal. This book is the first to combine the two major theoretical approaches to the topic and includes the first detailed studies of group classifiers and repeaters, as well as the first study of classifiers in Finnish and Russian. It also covers class nouns and their components - which are connected grammatically and semantically to both classifiers and gender - and discusses possible connections of classifiers with sublinguistic cognition. The analysis focuses on Mandarin Chinese, English, Japanese, and Thai, but Finnish, Hungarian, Tibetan, Uzbek, and other languages are also discussed.
Papers from the Third Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1993
Title | Papers from the Third Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1993 PDF eBook |
Author | Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Meeting |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
Onsets
Title | Onsets PDF eBook |
Author | Nina Topintzi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2010-04-08 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 113948611X |
The concept of the 'onset', i.e. the consonant(s) before the vowel of a syllable, is critical within phonology. While phonologists have examined the segmental behaviour of onsets, their prosodic status has instead been largely overlooked. In fact, most previous accounts have stipulated that onsets are insignificant when it comes to the 'heaviness' of syllables. In this book Nina Topintzi presents a new theory of onsets, arguing for their fundamental role in the structure of language both in the underlying and surface representation, unlike previous assumptions. To capture the weight behaviour of onsets, a novel account is proposed that relates their interaction with voicing, tone and stress. Using numerous case-studies and data from a variety of languages and phenomena (including stress, compensatory lengthening, gemination and word minimality), the book introduces a model that reflects the true behaviour of onsets, demonstrating profound implications for syllable and weight theories.