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Alyawarr to English Dictionaryby Jenny Green
IAD Press 1992; US$ 23.45The centre of Alyawarr country lies about 200 kilometres to the north-east of Alice Springs, a land of spinifex sandhills, mulga plains and low rocky outcrops crossed by the Sandover and Bundey Rivers. The language of the Alyawarr people is now recorded in this landmark dictionary, the first ever published of an Arandic language. It contains over 4,500 entries and sub-entries, an English to Alyawarr finder list, as well as example sentences, cultural information and tables of pronouns and grammatical endings. more...
Vietnamese Toneby Andrea Hoa Pham
Routledge 2003; US$ 351.00This new book offers research that will affect further study of tone in Vietnamese and other tonal languages. more...
Grammar Of Mangghuerby Keith W. Slater
Taylor & Francis 2003; US$ 200.00This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language. Its primary importance is as a systematic grammatical description of a little-known language. It also makes a significant contribution to comparative Mongolic studies. more...
The Learner's Dictionary of Today's Indonesianby George Quinn
Allen & Unwin 2001; US$ 36.32The first genuine learner's dictionary for English-speaking students of Indonesian which, rather than being a passive reference work, actively helps the user to generate language. more...
Understanding Indonesian Grammarby James Neil Sneddon
Allen & Unwin 2000; US$ 29.05The first combined reference and workbook which explains the important structures in the Indonesian language, together with extensive practical exercises. more...
The Structure of Toneby Zhiming Bao
Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 145.00This book argues a fresh theory about the structure of tone. Bao investigates a wide range of tone sandhi data from various Chinese dialects and other Asian tone languages, providing empirical support for his proposal that tone is a formal entity which consists of register and contour. Bao establishes a clear typological distinction between register tone languages and contour tone languages whose contour tones have a more complex structure. more...
Endangered Languages of Austronesiaby Margaret Florey
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 131.00Austronesian is the largest language family on earth: Some 1300 languages, 20% of the world's total, are spoken by 270 million people in a region that extends from Easter Island in the Pacific 10,000 miles west to Madagascar off the coast of Africa. Many of the languages in this diverse and linguistically rich region are undocumented and in imminent danger of extinction. This book provides a critical account of current knowledge, reviews the state of the documentation of languagesin the region, and considers the linguistic effects of government policies and economic change. The editor's introduction draws out the key issues and themes. An overview of the Austronesian language family then examines the historical relations between the... more...
Vietnameseby Nguy?n Đ́nh-Hoà
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997; US$ 180.00An essential descriptive introduction to a South-East Asian language with over seventy million speakers, this book provides a conservative treatment of the phonology, lexicon and syntax of Vietnamese, with comments on semantics and history, with particular reference to writing systems, loan words and syntactic structures. All example texts are transcribed and glossed.Prof. Nguyễn Đ́nh-Hoà has based this grammar on his vast teaching experience and gives basic insights into ?Vietnamese without veneer?. more...
Discursive Practices and Linguistic Meaningsby Hy V. Luong
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1990; US$ 158.00This is a theoretically oriented study of the pragmatics of Vietnamese person reference (kinship terms, personal pronouns, naming set and status terms). Drawing upon linguistic data from a radically different non-Western society and the seminal insights of Volosinov, Bakhtin, and Leach, it offers a critical analysis of the major theoretical premises of dominant approaches to denotation and connotation, to knowledge of language and to knowledge of the world. The study suggests that the pragmatic presuppositions of Vietnamese person-referring forms figure in the native definitions of linguistic meanings as prominently as any denotative features. It is argued that the significance of pragmatic implications should be analyzed in relation to the... more...