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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453233103321

Titolo

The aesthetics of grammar : sound and meaning in the languages of mainland Southeast Asia / / edited by Jeffrey P. Williams [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-139-89041-7

1-107-50188-1

1-107-50610-7

1-107-51645-5

1-139-03048-5

1-107-49630-6

1-107-50346-9

1-107-51373-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

495

Soggetti

Southeast Asia Languages Grammar, Comparative

Southeast Asia Languages Phonology, Comparative

Southeast Asia Languages Tone

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Austroasiatic -- part II. Tai-Kadai -- part III. Hmong-Mien -- part IV. Austronesian -- part V. Tibeto-Burman.

Sommario/riassunto

The languages of mainland Southeast Asia evidence an impressive array of elaborate grammatical resources, such as echo words, phonaesthetic words, chameleon affixes, chiming derivatives, onomatopoeic forms, ideophones and expressives. Speakers of these languages fashion grammatical works of art in order to express and convey emotions, senses, conditions and perceptions that enrich discourse. This book provides a detailed comparative overview of the mechanisms by which aesthetic qualities of speech operate as part of speakers' grammatical knowledge. Each chapter focuses on a different language and explores the grammatical information of a number of well- and lesser-known



languages from mainland Southeast Asia. It will be of great interest to syntacticians, morphologists, linguistic anthropologists, language typologists, cognitive scientists interested in language, and instructors of Southeast Asian languages.