Book Announcement: Studies in Burmese linguistics

[Justin Watkins]

Dear Colleagues and friends.

Apologies for cross-postings and unsolicited advertising.
I'm pleased to announce the publication of a new collection of work on the linguistics of Burmese.
Please post to relevant lists or forward to people who might be interested.

many thanks
Justin Watkins

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STUDIES IN BURMESE LINGUISTICS
edited by Justin Watkins.

Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, Australian National University, 2005.
ISBN: 0858835592
xxvi + 331 pages (inc. 13-page cumulated bibliography) 
Available from <julie.manley at pacling.anu.edu.au>Pacfic Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

Fourteen articles on diverse topics representing the state of current linguistic research on Burmese. 

-- dedicated to John Okell --

James A Matisoff - Preface xvii-xx
Antony Dubach Green - Word, foot and syllable structure in Burmese 1-25 
Andrew Simpson and Justin Watkins - Constituent focus in Burmese: a phonetic and perceptual study 27-66 
David Bradley - Reflexives in Literary and Spoken Burmese 67-86 
Vadim B. Kassevitch - Syntactic and morphological markers in Burmese: are they really optional? 87-96 
Kenji Okano - The Verb ‘give’ as a causativiser in colloquial Burmese 97-104 
Uta Gärtner - Is the Myanmar language really tenseless? 105-124 
F K L Chit Hlaing - Towards a formal cognitive theory of grammatical aspect and its treatment in Burmese 125-142
Alice Vittrant - Burmese as a modality-prominent language 143-161 
Paulette Hopple - Topicalisation in Burmese expository discourse 163-183 
San San Hnin Tun - Discourse particles in Burmese 185-199 
Saw Tun - Modern Burmese writing: an examination of the status of colloquial Burmese 201-219 
Rudolf Yanson - Tense in Burmese: a diachronic account 221-240 
Toru Ohno - The structure of Pagan period Burmese 241-305 
Annemarie Esche - The experience of writing the first German–Myanmar Dictionary 307-317
 
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Dr Justin Watkins
Lecturer in Burmese
Chair, Centre for South East Asian Studies

School of Oriental and African Studies
London WC1H 0XG

office  020 7898 4254
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Burmese language info:
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http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/wadict/