A Grammar of Semelai (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions) - Hardcover

Kruspe, Nicole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521814979 ISBN 13: 9780521814973

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This volume comprises the first comprehensive grammar of a language from the Aslian subgroup, within the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic family. Spoken by approximately 4,000 people in the lowland forests of the Malay Peninsula, Semelai has many distinctive features of interest to linguistic typologists, phonologists, morphologists and syntacticians. The volume provides a unique reference resource for South-East Asian language specialists, as well as general linguists.

About this title

Book Description:

This is the first full-scale grammar of a language from the Aslian subgroup, within the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic family. Semelai is spoken by about 4,000 people in the lowland forests of the Malay Peninsula, and has many distinctive features of interest to linguistic typologists, phonologists (a rich phonemic system of 18 vowels and 32 consonants), morphologists (a concatenative system acquired through extended contact with Malay and a non-concatenative system inherited from proto-Mon-Khmer) and syntacticians. It provides a unique reference resource for both Mon-Khmer specialists and general linguists.

About the Author:

Nicole Kruspe is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521814979
• ISBN 13: 9780521814973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 520