The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 25398
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1515/9783110401981
- Publisher
- De Gruyter Mouton
- ISBN
- 9783110401769
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The submission consists of a co-authored (Watkins and Vittrant) introduction setting out the purpose and research context of the book, thirteen chapters (of which the co-editors each single-authored one) on individual languages of the mainland Southeast Asian (MSEA) linguistic area, and a co-authored appendix setting out the structure which the language chapters follow.
This is a unique collection of language descriptions which the editors commissioned in order to address the research aims of the book, namely to build on existing studies of typological features prevalent in the MSEA linguistic area by seeking to determine the distribution of specific features, to cast new light on the limits of the contact-induced convergence in MSEA, and to examine the geolinguistic distribution of the given features and the zones of overlap of features that characterise this linguistic area.
The typological descriptions of the languages have a common structure, which the editors suggested, in order to facilitate comparison between and across chapters and languages. Designing the book in this way highlights, on the one hand, the unique typological features of the languages and, on the other hand, the features shared with other languages in the area.
Each grammatical sketch ends with two appendices: a glossed text, and a table summarizing the features examined in the chapter. This glossed text offers a glimpse of the language used in more natural context and a demonstration of the individual expertise of the linguists who compiled them. A series of maps at the end of the book show the geographical distribution (in terms of the location of the language described in this book) of a number of the more linguistic features explored in the tables.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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