Recent publications

[Malcolm Ross]

PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of:

A handbook of comparative Bahnaric,
  Vol. 1: West Bahnaric
Paul Sidwell and Pascale Jacq

Language variation:  Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere
and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff
David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky and Graham Thurgood
(editors)

These works are described below.

Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently
equivalent to about US$ 0.69).
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A handbook of comparative Bahnaric,
  Vol. 1: West Bahnaric
Paul Sidwell and Pascale Jacq
  PL 551
This book is the first in a planned series of monographs that will
forma multi-fascicled Handbook of Comparative Bahnaricoffering a
reconstruction of the phonology and lexicon of each sub-group of the
Bahnaric family (West Bahnaric, Central Bahnaric, North Bahnaric), and
a consolidated reconstruction of Proto Bahnaric and discussion of its
place within the Mon-Khmer family. 
  The West Bahnaric sub-branch is the smallest with perhaps 100,000
speakers living in the three southern Lao provinces of Champassak,
Attapeu and Sekong and adjacent areas of Cambodia. Historically it has
been heavily influenced by Khmer and Katuic languages such as Ta'Oi.
These days most speakers are bilingual in Lao, and there is a serious
danger that Lao will replace the West Bahnaric languages entirely.
  The historical reconstruction offered here includes 1094 sets of
lexical comparisons, with reconstructed proto-forms and extensive
etymological commentary. Special attention has been given to the
effects of language contact and borrowing in the formation of Proto
West Bahnaric.

  2003    ISBN 0 85883 541 X      ix + 225 pp
  Prices: Australia A$59.40 (inc. GST), Overseas A$54.00
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Language variation:  Papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere
and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff
David Bradley, Randy LaPolla, Boyd Michailovsky and Graham Thurgood
(editors)
PL  555
This volume discusses the nature of variation and change in a number of
East, Southeast and South Asian languages, especially of the
Sino-Tibetan family, also extending to other languages, even as far
afield as English. The papers honour the work of James A.  Matisoff, in
celebration of his 65th birthday.

There are nineteen papers by twenty authors concerning issues in
phonology, morphology, syntax, language contact, orthography and
language documentation.

Randy LaPolla provides a paper with broad theoretical implications,
‘Why languages differ: variation in the conventionalisation of
constraints on inference’.

Martha Ratliff writes on Hmong secret languages. Graham Thurgood and
Fengxiang Li give an account of contact-induced variation and syntactic
change in the Austronesian Tsat language of Hainan. Benji Wald’s
contribution considers verb compounding in English and East Asian
languages.

The other papers in the volume concern Sino-Tibetan languages.
Balthasar Bickel writes on prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan
word structure. Robert Bauer discusses the impact of English loanwords
on the Hong Kong Cantonese syllabary. Eleven papers are on
Tibeto-Burman topics. David Bradley discusses deictic patterns in Lisu
and SE Tibeto-Burman. Jackson Sun describes tonal developments in
Tibetan, while Michel Ferlus writes on borrowing from Middle Chinese
into Proto Tibetan. Yasuhiko Nagano describes negation particles in
Gyarong (Sichuan) and David Peterson agreement and grammatical
relations in Hyow (Bangladesh). Jerold Edmondson provides data from Phù
Lá, Xá Phó, Lô Lô, all located in Vietnam.

Five of the Tibeto-Burman papers concern languages of Nepal. Michael
Noonan writes on recent language contact among Tibeto-Nurman languages
of the Himalaya. Carol Genetti provides some case studies on linguistic
variation involving Newar. Boyd Michailovsky describes time-ordinals in
Kiranti languages, Aimée Lahaussois ergativity in Thulung Rai , and
Martine Mazaudon the discourse/grammar interface in Tamang.

Two papers deal with orthographic issues. R.K. Sprigg describes the
Lepcha and Limbu (Tibeto-Burman) scripts of Nepal and Mark Hansell
analyses variations in Chinese character choice in writing loanwords in
Taiwan.
	
2003    ISBN 0 85883 541   xii + 320 pp
  Prices: Australia A$79.20 (inc. GST), Overseas A$72.00

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