The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A comprehensive guide

Preface
Table of Contents
List of abbreviations
1 Introduction
2 The Neolithic occupation of Southeast Asia
3 Homelands and dispersal histories of Mainland Southeast Asian language families: a multidisciplinary perspective
4 The origins and spread of cereal agriculture in Mainland Southeast Asia
5 History of MSEA Austroasiatic studies
6 History of Tai-Kadai studies
7 Scholarship on Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) languages of South East Asia
8 Historiography of Hmong-Mien linguistics
9 French contributions to the study of Mainland Southeast Asian languages and linguistics
10 The SIL contribution to language and linguistics in Mainland Southeast Asia
11 Classification of MSEA Austroasiatic languages
12 Classifying Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) languages
13 Classification of (Tai-)Kadai/Kra-Dai languages
14 Classification and historical overview of Hmong-Mien languages
15 Language macro-families and distant phylogenetic relations in MSEA
16 Typological profile of Hmong-Mien languages
17 Typological profile of Burmic languages
18 Typological profile of Karenic languages
19 Typological profile of Kuki-Chin languages
20 Typological profile of the Kachin languages
21 Typological profile of Kra-Dai languages
22 Typological profile of Vietic
23 Northern Austroasiatic languages of MSEA
24 Eastern Austroasiatic languages
25 The national languages of MSEA: Burmese, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese
26 South Asian influence on the languages of Southeast Asia
27 Linguistic influence of Chinese in Southeast Asia
28 The influence of contact between Austroasiatic and Austronesian
29 Register in languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: the state of the art
30 Contact and convergence in the semantics of MSEA
31 Classifiers in Southeast Asian languages
32 Grammaticalization in Mainland Southeast Asian languages
33 Expressives in languages of Mainland Southeast Asia
34 Pragmatics and syntax in the languages of MSEA
35 MSEA epigraphy
36 Writing systems of MSEA
37 Language policy and planning in Mainland Southeast Asia
38 Language and the building of nations in Southeast Asia
Subject index
Language index