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A Grammar of Lao
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N.J. Enfield
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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.
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N. J. Enfield, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
xv - I Preliminaries
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Chapter 1. Overview
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Chapter 2. Language background
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Chapter 3. Phonology
33 - II Particles
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Chapter 4. Sentence-final and phrase-final particles
41 - III Nominals and Reference
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Chapter 5. Pronouns
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Chapter 6. Nominal modification
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Chapter 7. Nominal classification
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Chapter 8. Reference management
157 - IV Verbs and Predication
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Chapter 9. Aspectual-modal marking
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Chapter 10. Verbs and verb types
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Chapter 11. Basic clausal syntax
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Chapter 12. Expressive forms
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Chapter 13. Non-canonical transitive events
317 - V Multi-verb constructions
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Chapter 14. Preliminary remarks on multi-verb constructions
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Chapter 15. Three-participant events
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Chapter 16. Spatial predication
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Chapter 17. Secondary predication
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Chapter 18. Causation
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Chapter 19. Complementation
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Chapter 20. Coordinating constructions
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Chapter 21. Adverbial constructions
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Chapter 22. Summary remark on multi-verb constructions
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Chapter 23. Texts
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Backmatter
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eBook published on:
September 25, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9783110207538
Hardcover published on:
November 20, 2007
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110185881
Edition:
Reprint 2010
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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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