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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Lao is the national language of Laos. This book presents grammatical description of Lao. It describes and analyses various structures of the language, including classifiers, sentence-final particles, and serial verb constructions. It focuses on grammatical topics from a semantic, pragmatic, and typological perspective.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783110185881
Publisert
2007-11-20
Utgiver
Vendor
De Gruyter Mouton
Vekt
1131 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
593

Forfatter

Biographical note

N. J. Enfield, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.