A Grammar of Lao

Nachdruck 2010
ISBN: 978-3-11-018588-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 567 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1129 g

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Lao is the national language of Laos, and is also spoken widely in Thailand and Cambodia. It is a tone language of the Tai-Kadai family (Southwestern Tai branch). Lao is an extreme example of the isolating, analytic language type. This book is the most comprehensive grammatical description of Lao to date. It describes and analyses the important structures of the language, including classifiers, sentence-final particles, and serial verb constructions. Special attention is paid to grammatical topics from a semantic, pragmatic, and typological perspective.

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Language Typology and of Tai Languages

Autoren/Hrsg.

Enfield, N.J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

N. J. Enfield, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.