The studies in this book represent the rich, diverse and
substantial research being conducted today in the linguistics of
Mainland Southeast Asia. The chapters cover a broad scope. Several
studies address questions of language relatedness, often
challenging conventional assumptions about the status of language
contact as an explanatory factor in accounting for linguistic
similarities. Several address the question of Mainland Southeast
Asia as a linguistic area, exploring new ways to imagine and define
the boundaries, and indeed the boundedness, of a Mainland Southeast
Asia area. Two contributions rethink the received notion of the
'sesquisyllable' with new empirical and theoretical angles. And a
set of chapters explores topics in the morphology and syntax of the
region's languages, sometimes challenging orthodox assumptions and
claims about what a typical language of Mainland Southeast Asia is
like. Written by leading researchers in the field, and with a
substantial overview of current knowledge and new directions by the
volume editors N. J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie, this book will
serve as an authoritative source on where the linguistics of
Mainland Southeast Asia is at, and where it is heading.
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