SubjectsLinguistics / Austro-Asian languages
Journal
ISSN 1606-822X | E‑ISSN 2309‑5067
Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective
Edited by Qiongpeng Luo, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li
The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese
Edited by Lian-Hee Wee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Vietnamese Linguistics
Edited by Nigel Duffield, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh
This volume was originally inspired by a 2017 conference to honour the scholar and linguist Cao Xuân Hạo, whose landmark work – in many diverse areas of language study – established a bridge between traditional Vietnamese scholarship and contemporary theories of grammatical organisation. The book… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 211] 2019. vii, 304 pp.
Sound, Form, and Meaning of Chinese Dialects
Edited by Ik-sang Eom
The interface of semantics & etymology, morpho-syntax, and pragmatics in Chinese
Edited by Jeeyoung Peck
Cambodian: Khmer
John Haiman †
Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of “Desesperanto” – a… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 16] 2011. xix, 425 pp.
Vietnamese
Nguyễn Ðình-Hoà
An essential descriptive introduction to a South-East Asian language with over seventy million speakers, this book provides a conservative treatment of the phonology, lexicon and syntax of Vietnamese, with comments on semantics and history, with particular reference to writing systems, loan words… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 9] 1997. x, 289 pp.
Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meanings: The Vietnamese system of person reference
Hy V. Luong
This is a theoretically oriented study of the pragmatics of Vietnamese person reference (kinship terms, personal pronouns, naming set and status terms). Drawing upon linguistic data from a radically different non-Western society and the seminal insights of Volosinov, Bakhtin, and Leach, it offers a… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 11] 1990. x, 213 pp.