The Tai-Kadai languages

Title Statements

Full title :The Tai-Kadai languages / edited by Anthony V.N. Diller, Jerold A. Edmondson and Yongxian Luo.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

Notes

First published 2008 by Routledge.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 683 p. :) : ill. (some col.), maps.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780203641873, 0203641876, 9780700714575, 070071457X
oclc:on1171446179

1. Introduction / Anthony Diller -- 2. Sino-Tai and Tai-Kadai : another look / Yongxian Luo -- 3. Resources for Thai language research / Anthony Diller -- 4. Verbs and multi-verb constructions in Lao / N.J. Enfield -- 5. Shan and other Northern tier Southeast Tai languages of Myanmar and China : themes and variations / Jerold A. Edmondson -- 6. The Tai languages of Assam / Stephen Morey -- 7. The Lue language / John F. Hartmann -- 8. The Tai dialects of Nghệ An, Vietnam (Tay Daeng, Tay Yo, Tay Muong) / Michel Ferlus -- 9. Zhuang / Yongxian Luo -- 10. Bouyei phonology / Wil C. Snyder -- 11. Saek revisited / Wilaiwan Khanittanan -- 12. Four-word elaborate expressions in Yunnan Tai Lue : a Pan-Tai cultural trait? / Amara Prasithrathsint -- 13. Tai aesthetics / Thomas John Hudak -- 14. The old Zhuang script / David Holm -- 15. An etymological speculation on the sequential indicator kcc3 in Thai narrative / Somsonge Burusphat -- 16. A historical study of /thîi / in Thai / Pranee Kullavanijaya -- 17. Bipolar distribution of a word and grammaticalization in Thai : a discourse perspective / Shoichi Iwasaki -- 18. Directional verbs as success markers in Thai : another grammaticalization pa…