Linguistic Epidemiology: Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia

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N.J. Enfield

Linguistic Epidemiology

Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia

N.J. Enfield

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Routledge
15 August 2014

Historical & comparative linguistics; Grammar, syntax; Literature: history & criticism; Regional studies

Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics

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.

By: N.J. Enfield
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 770g
ISBN: 9780415868334
ISBN 10: 0415868335
Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 15 August 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

N.J. Enfield