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Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 2005. Trade paperback. Very good.. 328 p. Audience: College/higher education; Professional and scholarly. . Studies in Burmese Linguistics' is a unique collection of articles dedicated to the linguistics of Burmese, a major language of South East Asia with perhaps forty million speakers, more than any other language in the diverse Tibeto-Burman language family. The articles cover various sub-disciplines within linguistics which will be of general interest to a broad constituency of linguists, including the phonology and the phonetics of constituent focus, a synchronic and diachronic treatment of reflexives, a discussion of optionality in morphosyntax, an analysis of the grammaticalisation of the verb 'give' as a causativiser, three complementary articles on the verbal tense-mode-aspect system and two on Old Burmese, the language of 11-13th Century inscriptions. There is also a report of a major German-Burmese lexicography project. The contributors were invited to write…
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Studies in Burmese Linguistics Hardcover - 2005
by Watkins, Justin (editor)
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- Title Studies in Burmese Linguistics
- Author Watkins, Justin (editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 331
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Not Avail, Canberra
- Date 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780858835597 / 0858835592
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006373284
- Dewey Decimal Code 495.8
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