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Linguistic Epidemiology - Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia (Paperback)
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Linguistic Epidemiology - Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
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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.
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