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020			_a9781139030489 (ebook)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
245	0	4	_aThe Aesthetics of Grammar : _bSound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia / _cedited by Jeffrey P. Williams.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (308 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThe languages of mainland Southeast Asia evidence an impressive array of elaborate grammatical resources, such as echo words, phonaesthetic words, chameleon affixes, chiming derivatives, onomatopoeic forms, ideophones and expressives. Speakers of these languages fashion grammatical works of art in order to express and convey emotions, senses, conditions and perceptions that enrich discourse. This book provides a detailed comparative overview of the mechanisms by which aesthetic qualities of speech operate as part of speakers' grammatical knowledge. Each chapter focuses on a different language and explores the grammatical information of a number of well- and lesser-known languages from mainland Southeast Asia. It will be of great interest to syntacticians, morphologists, linguistic anthropologists, language typologists, cognitive scientists interested in language, and instructors of Southeast Asian languages.
700	1		_aWilliams, Jeffrey P., _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107007123
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139030489
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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