27.2997, Diss: Indonesian, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Semantics: Stefanie Siebenhütter: 'Spatial conceptualizations in Mainland Southeast Asia. Lao, Thai, Khmer and Vietnamese'

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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 10:10:36
From: Stefanie Siebenhütter [stefanie.siebenhuetter at campus.lmu.de]
Subject: Spatial conceptualizations in Mainland Southeast Asia. Lao, Thai, Khmer and Vietnamese

 
Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 
Program: Graduate School Language & Literature Munich 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2016 

Author: Stefanie Siebenhütter

Dissertation Title: Spatial conceptualizations in Mainland Southeast Asia. Lao, 
Thai, Khmer and Vietnamese. 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Subject Language(s): Indonesian (ind)
                     Japanese (jpn)
                     Thai (tha)
                     Vietnamese (vie)


Dissertation Director(s):
Hans van Ess
Robert J. Zydenbos
Wolfgang Schulze

Dissertation Abstract:

It is hypothesized that the languages of central Mainland Southeast Asia form
a conceptual linguistic area. The aim of the study is to identify this area on
the semantic level of static spatial concepts. Despite strong genetic
diversity, the area is assumed to be an excellent example of a classical
Sprachbund. The area developed accordingly, especially through the contact
between unrelated languages spoken in central Mainland Southeast Asia.

For this purpose the conceptual side of static spatial relations of the
Southeast Asian languages Thai, Lao, Vietnamese and Khmer will be analyzed.
Methodologically, the study is based on the combination of elicitating methods
such as interactive interviews and corpus research. The semantics of the
central mainland languages Thai, Lao, Vietnamese and Khmer are compared by
sampling, along with some control languages, particularly Indonesian, Chinese
and Burmese as well as other Southeast Asian languages. The uncovered
parallels of spatial language on the conceptual level in the four Southeast
Asian languages indicate that Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) is a conceptual
language area. 

The data analysis shows remarkable parallels on the semantic level that can be
confirmed by means of text data analysis. The MSEA area is provable at the
level of spatial concepts that are based in part on a conceptual borrowing.

Based on the results of the study, with regard to the four studied languages
and at the level of space relations the conceptual area Mainland Southeast
Asia can therefore be confirmed as an ideal Sprachbund MSEA.




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