The far West of Southeast Asia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Mainland Southeast Asian languages 1
4. Part 1: Language relatedness in MSEA
5. Word-initial prenasalization in Southeast Asia 31
6. Local drift and areal convergence in the restructuring of Mainland Southeast Asian languages 51
7. Re-assessing tonal diversity and geographical convergence in Mainland Southeast Asia 82
8. Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho 111
9. Part 2: Boundaries of the MSEA area
10. The far West of Southeast Asia 155
11. Morphosyntactic reconstruction in an arealhistorical context 209
12. The Mekong-Mamberamo linguistic area 266
13. The Far Southern Sinitic languages as part of Mainland Southeast Asia 356
14. Part 3: Defining the sesquisyllable
15. Approaching a phonological understanding of the sesquisyllable with phonetic evidence from Khmer and Bunong 443
16. Typologizing sesquisyllabicity 500
17. Part 4: Explorations in MSEA morphosyntax
18. Morphological functions among Mon-Khmer languages 531
19. The origins of nominal classification markers in MSEA languages 558
20. Expressing motion 586
21. Subject index 633
22. Author index 641
23. Place index 643
24. Language index 646