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The Munda Verb
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 182.00This book - the first of its kind on any language family of the Indian subcontinent - treats the typology of the verb in the Munda language family. It presents details of the verb morphology in each Munda language, including systems of agreement, tense/aspect/mood categories, noun incorporation, auxiliary verbs, negation, and transitivity. An exhaustive... more...
The Structure of Tone
Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 144.99This 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... more...
Disorientation
Hong Kong University Press 2004; US$ 38.00The close readings that form the core of the book are inflected by cultural and historical considerations, and informed by a range of primary documents that includes training manuals for colonial administrators, works of imperialist propaganda, tourist guidebooks and travel writing, and textbooks from Franco-Vietnamese schools. more...
Endangered Languages of Austronesia
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 164.99Austronesian 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... more...
Alyawarr to English Dictionary
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... more...
Cambodian
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 173.00Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of ?Desesperanto? - a language of which one can read a page and understand... more...
Complete Vietnamese
Hodder Education 2010; US$ 35.18The best-selling complete course for a fun and effective way to learn Vietnamese. This ISBN is for the paperback book. The corresponding audio support (ISBN: 9781444101898) is also available. The book and audio support can also be purchased as a pack (ISBN: 9781444101881). more...
Black Dog, Black Night
Milkweed Editions 2011; US$ 18.00The poems in Black Dog, Black Night highlight an aspect of Vietnamese verse previously unfamiliar to American readers: its remarkable contemporary voices. Celebrating Vietnam?s diverse and thriving literary culture, the poems collected here combine elements of French Romanticism, Russian Expressionism, American Modernism, and native folk stories... more...
English-Spoken Khmer Dictionary
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 450.00This is a unique learning aid for making rapid headway in the acquisition of comprehension and speaking ability in Khmer, the language of Cambodia. In recent years, Cambodia has moved from a society menaced by war to a society orientated to commerce. With this shift in attention from military to social and economic matters has come an increase in... more...
Untersuchungen zum Problem der seriellen Verben
De Gruyter 1990; US$ 126.00Untersuchungen Zum Problem Der Seriellen Verben: VOR Berlegungen Zu Ihrer Grammatik Und Exemplarische Analyse Des Vietnamesischen. more...









