Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art

Contents\nMainland Southeast Asian languages.State of the art and new directions\nPart 1: Language relatedness in MSEA\n	Word-initial prenasalization in Southeast Asia.A historical perspective\n	Local drift and areal convergence in the restructuring of Mainland Southeast Asian languages\n	Re-assessing tonal diversity and geographical convergence in Mainland Southeast Asia\n	Re-examining the genetic position of Jingpho.Putting flesh on the bones of the Jingpho/Luish relationship\nPart 2: Boundaries of the MSEA area\n	The far West of Southeast Asia.‘Give’ and ‘get’ in the languages of Myanmar\n	Morphosyntactic reconstruction in an arealhistorical context.A pre-historical relationship between North East India and Mainland Southeast Asia?\n	The Mekong-Mamberamo linguistic area\n	The Far Southern Sinitic languages as part of Mainland Southeast Asia\nPart 3: Defining the sesquisyllable\n	Approaching a phonological understanding of the sesquisyllable with phonetic evidence from Khmer and Bunong\n	Typologizing sesquisyllabicity.The role of structural analysis in the study of linguistic diversity in Mainland Southeast Asia\n	Part 4: Explorations in MSEA morphosyntax\n	Morphological functions among Mon-Khmer languages.Beyond the basics\n	The origins of nominal classification markers in MSEA languages.Convergence, contact and some African parallels\n	Expressing motion.The contribution of Southeast Asian languages with reference to East Asian languages\nSubject index\nAuthor index\nPlace index\nLanguage index