Asian Languages and Linguistics

Volume 1, Issue 2 (2020)

2020. iii, 174 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins

https://doi.org/10.1075/alal.1.2

Table of Contents

Articles

An ethnolinguistic repositioning of the Balmiki language of Odisha: A bibliographic appraisal

Subrat Kalyan Pattanayak & Biswanandan Dash | pp. 205–230
A historical investigation into Persian prefixal verbs based on Siyâsat-nâmeh and a contemporary corpus

Jalal Rahimian, Mehrzad Mansuri & Shimasadat Alipouri | pp. 231–250
Mechanisms of semantic change: The case of Cantonese slang

May L-Y Wong | pp. 251–277
From topic marker to case marker: A case of case formation in Gansu-Qinghai linguistic area

Dan Xu | pp. 278–308
On the nature of AA question in Yi and related problems

Heyou Zhang & Muji Wuni | pp. 309–345

Notes and Discussions

The structural uniqueness of languages and the value of comparison for language description

Martin Haspelmath | pp. 346–366

Book review

Rob Goedemans, Jeffrey Heinz & Harry van der Hulst (ed.). 2018. The study of word stress and accent: Theories, methods and data

Reviewed by Jia Guo, Siyi Jia & Yanting Sun | pp. 367–378