The Tai-Kadai Languages

Produktbeschreibung

With close to 100 million speakers, Tai-Kadai constitutes one of the world's major language families. The Tai-Kadai Languages provides a unique, comprehensive, single-volume tome covering much needed grammatical descriptions in the area. It presents an important overview of Thai that includes extensive cross-referencing to other sections of the volume and sign-posting to sources in the bibliography. The volume also includes much new material on Lao and other Tai-Kadai languages, several of which are described here for the first time. Much-needed and highly useful, The Tai-Kadai Languages is a key work for professionals and students in linguistics, as well as anthropologists and area studies specialists. ANTHONY V. N. DILLER is Foundation Director of the National Thai Studies Centre, at the Australian National University. JEROLD A. EDMONDSON is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas Arlington and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Scholars. YONGXIAN LUO is Senior Lecturer in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Linguistic Society. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Overview Chapters Part 2: Tai Languages: Overviews and Resources Part 3: Tai Languages: Special Topics Part 4: Grammaticalization and Historical Syntax Part 5: Kam-Sui Languages Part 6: Hlai (Li) and Kra (Kadai) Languages. 

Kritik

Diller's two chapters, 'Introduction' (Ch. 1) and 'Resources for Thai Language Research' (Ch. 3), are a pleasure. The section on terminology in Ch 1. Is as good a presentation of this vexed topic as I have seen anywhere. Ch. 3 elegantly combines (i) guiding the reader through a hefty number of published works (there is a twenty-eight page list of references) on all aspects of Siamese linguistics with (ii) with setting forth a quite complete basic sketch of Siamese phonology, syntax, phonology, semantics, diachrony and more. - Reviewed in November 2010 

Autoreninfo

Anthony Diller, Jerry Edmondson, Yongxian Luo