Overview
With close to 100 million speakers, Tai-Kadai constitutes one of the world's major language families. The Tai-Kadai Languages provides a unique, comprehensive, single-volume tome covering much needed grammatical descriptions in the area. It presents an important overview of Thai that includes extensive cross-referencing to other sections of the volume and sign-posting to sources in the bibliography. The volume also includes much new material on Lao and other Tai-Kadai languages, several of which are described here for the first time. Much-needed and highly useful, The Tai-Kadai Languages is a key work for professionals and students in linguistics, as well as anthropologists and area studies specialists. ANTHONY V. N. DILLER is Foundation Director of the National Thai Studies Centre, at the Australian National University. JEROLD A. EDMONDSON is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas Arlington and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Scholars. YONGXIAN LUO is Senior Lecturer in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Linguistic Society.
Full Product Details
Author: Anthony Diller (Australian National University) ,
Jerry Edmondson (University of Texas at Arlington, USA) ,
Yongxian Luo (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 4.10cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 1.300kg
ISBN: 9780415688475
ISBN 10: 0415688477
Pages: 700
Publication Date: 18 August 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Diller's two chapters, 'Introduction' (Ch. 1) and 'Resources for Thai Language Research' (Ch. 3), are a pleasure. The section on terminology in Ch 1. Is as good a presentation of this vexed topic as I have seen anywhere. Ch. 3 elegantly combines (i) guiding the reader through a hefty number of published works (there is a twenty-eight page list of references) on all aspects of Siamese linguistics with (ii) with setting forth a quite complete basic sketch of Siamese phonology, syntax, phonology, semantics, diachrony and more. - Reviewed in November 2010
Author Information
Anthony V. N. Diller is Foundation Director of the National Thai Studies Centre, at the Australian National University. Jerold A. Edmondson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas Arlington and a member of the Academy of Distinguished Scholars. Yongxian Luo is Senior Lecturer in the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and a member of the Australian Linguistic Society.
