Abstract Mainland Southeast Asia provides a dramatic demonstration of the areal
phenomenon in linguistics: When languages are spoken historically in the same location …

This book develops a bold new approach to universal grammar, based on research findings
of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) program. The key idea is that universal …

" Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural
and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes …

The number of languages spoken on the planet has oscillated up and down throughout the
history of mankind. 1 Different social factors operate in opposite ways, some resulting in the …

Foreigners often say that English language is" easy." A language like Spanish is challenging
in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and …

At the earliest reconstructable stage of the development of the Sino-Tibetan (ST) language
family, possibly as much as 6,000 years ago (Thurgood 1994), 1 the protolanguage was …

Mainland Southeast Asia (hereafter: MSEA) can be broadly defined as the area occupied by
present day Cambodia, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Vietnam, along …

There is increasing evidence that many languages encode prosodic focus not only with
phonetic variations in the focused component itself, but also with a reduction of pitch range …

The goal of this chapter is to re-examine areal linguistics and in doing so to arrive at a
clearer understanding of the notion of 'linguistic area'. The conclusion reached is that it is …

Metatypy, meaning'change in type'is a diachronic process in which the syntactic system of
one of a bilingual community's languages is restructured so that it more closely resembles …