The Tamil Auxiliary Verb System

Sanford B Steever

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• This book introduces the syntactic process of auxiliary formation and applies it to the grammatical analysis of the indicative, or non-modal, auxiliar... Lees meer

Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated i... Lees meer

The Chinese Particle Le

M E Van Den Berg, G Wu

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics | nr. 6
• Ever since the start of Chinese linguistic studies, the description of the Chinese particle LE has remained elusive. The classification has evolved fr... Lees meer

A Grammar of Mangghuer

Keith W Slater

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language spoken by approximately 25,000 people in China's northwestern Qinghai Province. Mangghuer is ... Lees meer

Vietnamese-English Bilingualism

Ho-Dac Tuc

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• This book is concerned with three central issues: the universality of constraints on code-switching, the nature of the relation between language conta... Lees meer

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese

Daniel Hole

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics | nr. 5
• This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in... Lees meer

Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• This book shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in East Asian languages adds much to our general understanding of the clos... Lees meer

Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese

Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• This innovative study on the phenomenon of 'grammaticalization' and its manifestation in Chinese provides new insights into language change in Chinese... Lees meer

Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese

Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the underst... Lees meer

The Tamil Auxiliary Verb System

Sanford B Steever

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• This book introduces the syntactic process of auxiliary formation and applies it to the grammatical analysis of the indicative, or non-modal, auxiliar... Lees meer

The Chinese Particle Le

M E Van Den Berg, G Wu

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• Ever since the start of Chinese linguistic studies, the description of the Chinese particle LE has remained elusive. The classification has evolved fr... Lees meer

Linguistic Epidemiology

Nick Enfield

• Paperback | Engels | 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, ... Lees meer

A Grammar of Mangghuer

Keith W Slater

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics
• This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language spoken by approximately 25,000 people in China's northwestern Qinghai Province. Mangghuer is ... Lees meer

Linguistic Epidemiology

N J Enfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics | nr. 2
• This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, ... Lees meer

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese

Daniel Hole

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics | nr. 5
• This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái, jiù, dou and ye are, in... Lees meer