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Publication details [#6229]

Liem, Nguyen Dany. 1978. Clauses and cases in Southeast Asian languages and thought. In McCormack, William C. and Stephen A. Wurm, eds. Approaches to language: Anthropological issues. Mouton. pp. 279–295.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and thought | semantic case | sentence | tagmemics

Language as a subject

Cambodian | Cantonese | Lao | Thai | Vietnamese

Annotation

A case-grammar and tagmemically oriented approach to some common features of the clause in Cambodian, Cantonese, Lao, Thai, and Vietnamese, which are said to be relatable to the culture and thought patterns of the people speaking the languages.