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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 495
• Soggetto geografico: Southeast Asia Languages Grammar, Comparative; Southeast Asia Languages Phonology, Comparative; Southeast Asia Languages Tone
• Persona (resp. second.): WilliamsJeffrey P <1958-> (Jeffrey Payne)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The aesthetics of grammar
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453233103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II