The Tai-Kadai languages [electronic resource] / edited by Anthony V.N. Diller, Jerold A. Edmondson and Yongxian Luo.
Series: Routledge language family seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.Description: xvi, 683 p. : ill. (some col.), mapsISBN:- 9780203641873
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction / Anthony Diller -- 2. Sino-Tai and Tai-Kadai : another look / Yongxian Luo -- 3. Resources for Thai language research / Anthony Diller -- 4. Verbs and multi-verb constructions in Lao / N.J. Enfield -- 5. Shan and other northern tier southeast Tai languages of Myanmar and China : themes and variations / Jerold A. Edmondson -- 6. The Tai languages of Assam / Stephen Morey -- 7. The Lue languange / John F. Hartmann -- 8. The Tai dialects of Nghệan, Vietnam (Tay Daeng, Tay Yo, Tay Muong) / Michel Ferlus -- 9. Zhuang / Yongxian Luo -- 10. Bouyei phonology / Wil C. Snyder -- 11. Saek revisited / Wilaiwan Khanittanan -- 12. Four-word elaborate expressions in Yunnan Tai Lue : a Pan-Tai cultural trait? / Amara Prasithrathsint -- 13. Tai aesthetics / Thomas John Hudak -- 14. The old Zhuang script / David Holm -- 15. An etymological speculation on the sequential indicator kcc3 in Thai narrative / Somsonge Burusphat -- 16. A historical study of /thîi/ in Thai / Pranee Kullavanijaya -- 17. Bipolar distribution of a word and grammaticalization in Thai : a discourse perspective / Shoichi Iwasaki -- 18. Directional verbs as success markers in Thai : another grammaticalization path / Kingkarn Thepkanjana and Satoshi Uehara -- 19. Kam / Tongyin Yang and Jerold A. Edmondson -- 20. Sui / James Wei and Jerold A. Edmondson -- 21. Chadong, a newly-discovered Kam-Sui language in northern Guangxi / Li Jinfang -- 22. The Hlai language / Weera Ostapirat -- 23. Kra or Kadai languages / Jerold A. Edmondson.
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