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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">I am pleased to announce the publication of a new book, aimed at both professionals and students in linguistics: “<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mainland-southeast-asian-languages/2FF1FC5B6B0DACB6B052285E94887017#fndtn-information">Mainland
Southeast Asian Languages: A Concise Typological Introduction</a>”. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">“</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This highly accessible introduction explores the core systems and subsystems of the languages of mainland Southeast Asia, applying the main concepts of language
typology, phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language variation, and language contact, to this diverse language area. … Enfield draws upon nearly a thousand data examples from over a hundred languages from Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Thailand, and Vietnam to show the many ways in which these languages resemble each other, and differ from each other, in the context of what is known globally about the diversity of human language. The book highlights the diversity of the area's languages,
with a special emphasis on the minority languages, which outnumber the national languages by nearly a hundred to one. The result is a welcome corrective to widespread beliefs about the nature of a 'typical' Southeast Asian language.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">”</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Nick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">N. J. ENFIELD </span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">| FAHA FASSA FRSN | Professor of Linguistics</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">Director, <a href="http://sydneylanguageresearch.org/">
Sydney Centre for Language Research</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#4472C4"><a href="http://sydney.edu.au/"><span style="color:#4472C4">sydney.edu.au</span></a>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:black">|</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#4472C4"> <a href="http://www.nickenfield.org/"><span style="color:#4472C4">nickenfield.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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