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A Grammar of Lao
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N.J. Enfield
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2007
About this book
Lao is the national language of Laos, and is also spoken widely in Thailand and Cambodia. It is a tone language of the Tai-Kadai family (Southwestern Tai branch). Lao is an extreme example of the isolating, analytic language type. This book is the most comprehensive grammatical description of Lao to date. It describes and analyses the important structures of the language, including classifiers, sentence-final particles, and serial verb constructions. Special attention is paid to grammatical topics from a semantic, pragmatic, and typological perspective.
Author / Editor information
N. J. Enfield, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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I Preliminaries
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II Particles
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III Nominals and Reference
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IV Verbs and Predication
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V Multi-verb constructions
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VI Texts
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 25, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9783110207538
Hardcover published on:
November 20, 2007
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110185881
Edition:
Reprint 2010
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
26
Main content:
567
Illustrations:
7
Tables:
32
Audience(s) for this book
Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Language Typology and of Tai Languages
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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