Linguistic Epidemiology (Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics) - Softcover

Enfield, Nick

 
9780415868334: Linguistic Epidemiology (Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics)
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ISBN 10: 0415868335 ISBN 13: 9780415868334
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese. The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics. Gricean pragmatics, semantic change, grammaticalization, language contact, and areal linguistics. The book also examines how changes in the speech of individuals actually become changes in large-scale public convention, 'language contact' is reconsidered, and traditional distinctions such as that between 'internal' and 'external' linguistic mechanisms are challenged. This groundbreaking new book is for specialists in Southeast Asian linguistics as well as scholars of descriptive semantics and pragmatics, grammaticalisation, linguistic change and evolution, areal linguistics and language contact, history and linguistic anthropology.

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N.J. Enfield

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415868335
ISBN 13 
9780415868334
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
420

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