The Tai-Kadai languages / edited by Anthony V.N. Diller, Jerold A. Edmondson and Yongxian Luo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diller, Anthony Van Nostrand, 1940-

Edmondson, Jerold A.

Luo, Yongxian, 1954-

Series:

Routledge language family series

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tai-Kadai languages--History.

Tai-Kadai languages.

Tai-Kadai languages--Grammar, Comparative.

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Contents:

1. Introduction / Anthony Diller

2. Sino-Tai and Tai-Kadai : another look / Yongxian Luo

3. Resources for Thai language research / Anthony Diller

4. Verbs and multi-verb constructions in Lao / N.J. Enfield

5. Shan and other Northern tier Southeast Tai languages of Myanmar and China : themes and variations / Jerold A. Edmondson

6. The Tai languages of Assam / Stephen Morey

7. The Lue language / John F. Hartmann

8. The Tai dialects of Nghệ An, Vietnam (Tay Daeng, Tay Yo, Tay Muong) / Michel Ferlus

9. Zhuang / Yongxian Luo

10. Bouyei phonology / Wil C. Snyder

11. Saek revisited / Wilaiwan Khanittanan

12. Four-word elaborate expressions in Yunnan Tai Lue : a Pan-Tai cultural trait? / Amara Prasithrathsint

13. Tai aesthetics / Thomas John Hudak

14. The old Zhuang script / David Holm

15. An etymological speculation on the sequential indicator kcc3 in Thai narrative / Somsonge Burusphat

16. A historical study of /thîi / in Thai / Pranee Kullavanijaya

17. Bipolar distribution of a word and grammaticalization in Thai : a discourse perspective / Shoichi Iwasaki

18. Directional verbs as success markers in Thai : another grammaticalization path / Kingkarn Thepkanjana and Satoshi Uehara

19. KAM / Tongyin Yang and Jerold A. Edmondson

20. SUI / James Wei and Jerold A. Edmondson

21. Chadong, a newly-discovered Kam-Sui language in Northern Guangxi / Li Jinfang

22. The Hlai language / Weera Ostapirat

23. Kra Or Kadai languages / Jerold A. Edmondson.

Notes:

First published 2008 by Routledge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780203641873

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