A01=N.J. Enfield
asia
asian
Author_N.J. Enfield
Bridging Context
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Category=CFK
Category=DS
Category=GTM
Clausal Head
Comp
descriptive
Descriptive Complement
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_dictionaries-language-reference
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Focus Particle
Hmong Mien Language
khmer
languages
Le Page
main
Main Verb
Main Verb Functions
mainland
Mainland Southeast Asia
Mainland Southeast Asian Languages
mon
Mon Khmer Languages
Postverbal Modal
Resultative Construction
Resultative V2
Semantic Change
Sentence Complement
Sentence Final Particles
Sinitic Languages
southeast
SwM
Tai Kadai
Tai Languages
Tibeto Burman Languages
V2 Position
verb
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415297431
- Weight: 748g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese.
The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics. Gricean pragmatics, semantic change, grammaticalization, language contact, and areal linguistics. The book also examines how changes in the speech of individuals actually become changes in large-scale public convention, 'language contact' is reconsidered, and traditional distinctions such as that between 'internal' and 'external' linguistic mechanisms are challenged.
This groundbreaking new book is for specialists in Southeast Asian linguistics as well as scholars of descriptive semantics and pragmatics, grammaticalisation, linguistic change and evolution, areal linguistics and language contact, history and linguistic anthropology.
