Hmong-Mien Language History (Pacific Linguistics, 613; Studies in Language Change, 8) - Hardcover

Martha Ratliff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0858836157 ISBN 13: 9780858836150

Publisher: The Australian National University, 2010

Synopsis

This book presents a new reconstruction of Proto Hmong-Mien, the ancestor language of the modern Hmong-Mien (Miao-Yao) languages of southern China and northern Southeast Asia. It also contains discussion of selected topics in the history of Hmong-Mien: phonological change, tonogenesis and tone development, ancient morphology, numerals and pronouns, language contact, and the ancient Hmong-Mien world.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Australian National University
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0858836157
• ISBN 13: 9780858836150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298