Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects – serie
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Introduction to the Japonic Languages
Grammatical Sketches of Japanese Dialects and Ryukyuan Languages
Inbunden, 2022
2136 kr
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Japanese is definitely one of the best-known languages in typological literature. For example, typologists often assume that Japanese is a nominative-accusative language. However, it is often overlooked that Japanese, or more precisely, Tokyo Japanese, is just one of various local varieties of the …
Endangered Compound Prosody in Kansai Japanese
Implications for the Syntax-Prosody Interface
Inbunden, 2023
1908 kr
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This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese, with a special focus on a class of compounds with particularly variable prosody, whose unique prosody is potentially endangered due to their structure and influence from Tokyo Japanese. These compounds serve as important …
Western Subanon Grammar
Inbunden, 2024
2138 kr
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Western Subanon Grammar is the first ever comprehensive description of Western Subanon, a highly endangered indigenous Austronesian minority language in the southern Philippines. Written by a native speaker and the result of intensive fieldwork, the book's 26 chapters cover the phonological, …
Western Austronesian Applicative Constructions
Continuity and Change in Form and Meaning
Inbunden, 2025
1718 kr
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Applicative constructions are a distinctive grammatical feature of the Austronesian languages of western Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. Applicatives in these languages show varied syntactic and semantic properties, and are closely connected to causativization, aspectual meanings, and …
Endangered and Marginalized Languages in East and Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2026
1613 kr
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East and Southeast Asia are home to remarkable linguistic diversity, yet this diversity is increasingly under threat as political, economic, cultural, and other social transformations reshape the region. This volume brings together two introductory chapters and ten country-focused studies—covering …
