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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2013
      November 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139030489
      9781107007123
      9781108790383
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139030489
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 308 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 308 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Asian Studies, Asian Language and Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
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    The languages of mainland Southeast Asia evidence an impressive array of elaborate grammatical resources, such as echo words, phonaesthetic words, chameleon affixes, chiming derivatives, onomatopoeic forms, ideophones and expressives. Speakers of these languages fashion grammatical works of art in order to express and convey emotions, senses, conditions and perceptions that enrich discourse. This book provides a detailed comparative overview of the mechanisms by which aesthetic qualities of speech operate as part of speakers' grammatical knowledge. Each chapter focuses on a different language and explores the grammatical information of a number of well- and lesser-known languages from mainland Southeast Asia. It will be of great interest to syntacticians, morphologists, linguistic anthropologists, language typologists, cognitive scientists interested in language, and instructors of Southeast Asian languages.

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    ‘A groundbreaking introduction to an important, long-neglected phenomenon. The descriptive and theoretical problems posed by expressive systems are a serious challenge for the next generation of linguists, and scholars seeking to engage this challenge will begin with this volume.’

    Scott DeLancey - University of Oregon

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