22.3866, Books: Lang Documentation/Morphology/Syntax/Semantics: Haiman

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Date: 04-Oct-2011
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Cambodian: Haiman

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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:58:54
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Cambodian: Haiman

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Title: Cambodian 
Subtitle: Khmer 
Series Title: London Oriental and African Language Library 16  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/loall.16 

Author: John Haiman

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027285027 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027285027 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 173.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027238160 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 115.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027238160 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 173.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027238160 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 121.90

Abstract:

Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose 
syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO 
pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its 
idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of "Desesperanto" 
- a language of which one can read a page and understand every word 
individually, and have no inkling of what the page was all about. Like many of 
the languages of its genetic (Austroasiatic) family, its basic root vocabulary 
seems to consist largely of sesquisyllabic or iambic words, although there are 
an enormous number of unassimilated borrowings from Indic languages 
(which seem to play the same role in Cambodian that Latinate borrowings do 
in English). Morphologically, Cambodian has a fairly elaborate system of 
derivational affixes, and it is possible that the genesis of many of the most 
common of these affixes is related to (and undoes) the constant reduction of 
unstressed initial syllables in sesquisyllabic words. Again like many of the 
languages of Southeast Asia, Cambodian exhibits in its lexicon a penchant 
for symmetrical decorative compounding, a phenomenon which is so 
marginally attested in Western languages that the phenomenon has received 
little attention in the typological literature. The present book is the first 
reference grammar of Cambodian in any language since 1966, and the first to 
appear in English. 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Morphology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Khmer, Central (khm)
                     Khmer, Northern (kxm)

Written In: English  (eng)

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