Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art

N. J. Enfield and Bernard Comrie
Mainland Southeast Asian languages: State of the art and new directions | 1
Part 1: Language relatedness in MSEA
Martha Ratliff
Word-initial prenasalization in Southeast Asia: A historical
perspective | 31
Paul Sidwell
Local drift and areal convergence in the restructuring of Mainland Southeast
Asian languages | 51
Marc Brunelle and James Kirby
Re-assessing tonal diversity and geographical convergence in Mainland
Southeast Asia | 82
James A. Matisoff
Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho: Putting flesh on the bones of the
Jingpho/Luish relationship | 111
Part 2: Boundaries of the MSEA area
Mathias Jenny
The far West of Southeast Asia: ‘Give’ and ‘get’ in the languages of
Myanmar | 155
Mark W. Post
Morphosyntactic reconstruction in an areal-historical context: A pre-historical
relationship between North East India and Mainland Southeast
Asia? | 209
David Gil
The Mekong-Mamberamo linguistic area |
Hilário de Sousa
The Far Southern Sinitic languages as part of Mainland Southeast
Asia | 356
Part 3: Defining the sesquisyllable
Becky Butler
Approaching a phonological understanding of the sesquisyllable with phonetic
evidence from Khmer and Bunong | 443
Pittayawat Pittayaporn
Typologizing sesquisyllabicity: The role of structural analysis in the study of
linguistic diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia | 500
Part 4: Explorations in MSEA morphosyntax
Mark J. Alves
Morphological functions among Mon-Khmer languages: Beyond the
basics | 531
Roger Blench
The origins of nominal classification markers in MSEA languages:
Convergence, contact and some African parallels | 558
Alice Vittrant
Expressing motion: The contribution of Southeast Asian languages with
reference to East Asian languages | 586
Indexes
Subject index | 633
Author index | 641
Place index | 643
Language index | 646