William J Gedney S Comparative Tai Source Book

Author : Thomas John Hudak
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824865610

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William J. Gedney’s Comparative Tai Source Book by Thomas John Hudak Pdf

This volume provides accurate and reliable data from 1,159 common cognates found in 19 dialects from the Tai language family. Originally collected by noted Tai linguist, the late William J. Gedney, the data are organized into the three branches of the Tai language family, the Southwestern, the Central, and the Northern, to facilitate comparisons among the various sound systems within the individual branches and within the Tai language family as a whole. Supplementing the cognates are phonological descriptions of each of the dialects. Included among the nineteen dialects are Siamese, White Tai, Black Tai, Shan, Lue, Yay, Saek, and dialects found at Leiping, Lungming, Pingsiang, and Ningming in China. The meticulous attention paid to consonants, vowels, and tones found in each cognate will allow for further dialect studies, for the investigation of questions concerning the tripartite division of the Tai language family, and for the continuing investigation into the reconstruction of the Proto-Tai language family and its wider genetic relationships.

Author : William J. Gedney
Publisher : U of M Center for South East Asian Studi
Page : 1236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X002126616

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William J. Gedney's The Tai Dialect of Lungming by William J. Gedney Pdf

Represents one of the most complete examinations yet undertaken of a dialect belonging to the Central Branch of the Tai language family

Author : Thomas John Hudak
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824831905

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William J. Gedney’s Comparative Tai Source Book by Thomas John Hudak Pdf

This volume provides accurate and reliable data from 1,159 common cognates found in 19 dialects from the Tai language family. Originally collected by noted Tai linguist, the late William J. Gedney, the data are organized into the three branches of the Tai language family, the Southwestern, the Central, and the Northern, to facilitate comparisons among the various sound systems within the individual branches and within the Tai language family as a whole. Supplementing the cognates are phonological descriptions of each of the dialects. Included among the nineteen dialects are Siamese, White Tai, Black Tai, Shan, Lue, Yay, Saek, and dialects found at Leiping, Lungming, Pingsiang, and Ningming in China. The meticulous attention paid to consonants, vowels, and tones found in each cognate will allow for further dialect studies, for the investigation of questions concerning the tripartite division of the Tai language family, and for the continuing investigation into the reconstruction of the Proto-Tai language family and its wider genetic relationships.

Author : Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110558142

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The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia by Paul Sidwell,Mathias Jenny Pdf

The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

Author : Gang PENG,Jiangping KONG,Zhongwei SHEN,Feng WANG
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789629376727

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Inspirations from a Lofty Mountain— Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. Wang on his 90th Birthday by Gang PENG,Jiangping KONG,Zhongwei SHEN,Feng WANG Pdf

An internationally acclaimed linguist, Professor William S-Y. Wang has had a distinguished career both in Hong Kong and abroad. In addition to formulating the theory of lexical diffusion, his academic interests have included experimental phonetic studies, language simulation and modeling and, more recently, aging and language. In honor of Prof. Wang’s 90th birthday, his colleagues and friends from around the world have contributed more than 30 articles for a two-volume commemorative Festschrift. The contents of this English volume include diachronic, synchronic, and interdisciplinary linguistic studies from authors across Asia and in the United States. Focusing mainly on the Chinese language, topics include the evolution of language, the relationship between language and music, and the functions and processes of the brain involved in language production. Written by and for seasoned language researchers, this Festschrift will also appeal to students of Chinese linguistics and readers with an interest in Chinese culture, history, and neurology.

Author : Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107007123

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The Aesthetics of Grammar by Jeffrey P. Williams Pdf

This book provides a detailed comparative overview of an array of elaborate grammatical resources used in Southeast Asian languages.

Author : Junko Habu,Peter V. Lape,John W. Olsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781493965212

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Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology by Junko Habu,Peter V. Lape,John W. Olsen Pdf

The Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology focuses on the material culture and lifeways of the peoples of prehistoric and early historic East and Southeast Asia; their origins, behavior and identities as well as their biological, linguistic and cultural differences and commonalities. Emphasis is placed upon the interpretation of material culture to illuminate and explain social processes and relationships as well as behavior, technology, patterns and mechanisms of long-term change and chronology, in addition to the intellectual history of archaeology as a discipline in this diverse region. The Handbook augments archaeologically-focused chapters contributed by regional scholars by providing histories of research and intellectual traditions, and by maintaining a broadly comparative perspective. Archaeologically-derived data are emphasized with text-based documentary information, provided to complement interpretations of material culture. The Handbook is not restricted to art historical or purely descriptive perspectives; its geographical coverage includes the modern nation-states of China, Mongolia, Far Eastern Russia, North and South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and East Timor.

Author : David Holm
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004242166

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Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm Pdf

The traditional Zhuang script is a character script based on Chinese, adapted for the purpose of writing the Tai languages of southern China and northern Vietnam. Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm, presents for the first time a systematic overview of such a script, based on a survey of traditional texts in 45 locations among the Zhuang and related peoples in Guangxi, Guizhou, eastern Yunnan, and northern Vietnam. Complete with 133 maps, it looks at patterns of geographic variation in relation to dialect, the domains of former native chieftaincies, the activities of ritual masters and Taoist priests, large-scale migrations, and the transplantation of garrisons of native troops. Internal evidence indicates the script has a history going back well before the Tang.

Author : Robert J. Bickner,Thomas J. Hudak,Patcharin Peyasantiwong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Gedney, William J.
ISBN : UCAL:B3903586

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Papers from a Conference on Thai Studies in Honor of William J. Gedney by Robert J. Bickner,Thomas J. Hudak,Patcharin Peyasantiwong Pdf

Author : William J. Gedney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : UCAL:B4145411

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William J. Gedney's the Saek Language by William J. Gedney Pdf

Author : Thomas W. Gething
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Tai languages
ISBN : UOM:39015011539825

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A Tai Festschrift for William J. Gedney by Thomas W. Gething Pdf

Author : Lian-Hee Wee,Mingxing Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009085267

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Complexity in the Phonology of Tone by Lian-Hee Wee,Mingxing Li Pdf

The complexity of tone can only be appreciated through phonological patterning that unveils structures beyond differences in pitch heights and contour profiles. Following an introduction on tone's ability to express lexical and grammatical contrasts, Section 2 explains that phonetically, fundamental frequency profiles make for the best descriptors. From these descriptions, Section 3 explains how, through postulations of subatomic entities that comprise tones, a language's tone inventory can be quite symmetrical. In looking at tone's independence from the syllable and segments, Section 4 establishes tone as an autosegment. Sections 5, 6, and 7 go on to discuss a myriad of complexities where tones interact with one another and with other phonological entities. Here, the authors offer a suggestion on how some of these interactions can be captured within the same analytical umbrella. Section 8 then peeks into tone's phonological properties through music and poetry.

Author : William J. Gedney
Publisher : U of M Center for South East Asian Studi
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015019374076

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Selected Papers on Comparative Tai Studies by William J. Gedney Pdf

Twelve papers on comparative Tai studies, most previously unpublished, make up this collection of articles by the renowned linguist William J. Gedney

Author : Thomas J. Hudak
Publisher : U of M Center for South East Asian Studi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015043129967

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William J. Gedney's Thai and Indic Literary Studies by Thomas J. Hudak Pdf

Gedney discusses Thai Riddles, problems in translating Thai poetry, and historical development and Sanskrit influences in Thai verse forms

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3054 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022290980

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Subject Guide to Books in Print by Anonim Pdf