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PACIFIC LINGUISTICS is happy to announce the publication of:

Aspects of Lisu phonology and grammar, a language of Southeast Asia by 
Defen Yu

A grammar of the Pendau language of central Sulawesi, Indonesia by Phil 
Quick

Prices are in Australian dollars (one Australian dollar is currently 
equivalent to about US$ 0.97).


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Aspects of Lisu phonology and grammar, a language of Southeast Asia

Yu, Defen

PL 588

This book presents a comparative analysis of aspects of the phonology 
and grammar of Lisu, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the border areas 
of China, Myanmar, Thailand and India. The analysis is mainly based on 
data from five Lisu dialects of southwest China, accumulated from 
fieldwork and from the author's native-speaker knowledge.

The study describes the phonological systems of five Lisu dialects: 
Shibacha, Nujiang, Ninglang, Dechang and Lipo. An unusual alignment 
pattern of core grammatical marking is also identified. Typologically 
important grammatical features are discussed in detail, including the 
human classifier system and the nominal and pronominal system and its 
interaction with kinship terms and kinship classifiers. Verbal 
categories such as adjectives, serial verb constructions, copula verbs 
are described in depth, some posing interesting questions for linguistic 
theory.

This work makes available for the first time materials from a 
lesser-known dialect group and is enriched by descriptions of the 
cultural practices of Lisu communities. It is hoped that the book will 
provide a new source for both diachronic and synchronic comparison by 
Sino-Tibetan scholars, while its anthropological and ethnographic 
approach may serve as a model for future researchers intending to work 
in this area. hopefully the comparative description of the features of 
Lisu phonology and grammar will benefit comprehensive studies of the 
Lisu language and dialects across international boundaries in mainland 
Southeast Asia.

ISBN 7980858835795 271 pp

Prices: Australia AUD $64.90 (incl. GST)

Overseas AUD $59.00


A grammar of the Pendau language of central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Phil Quick

PL 590

This book is a grammar of Pendau, an Austronesian language spoken by 
around four thousand people in north-central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Pendau 
belongs to the Tomini-Tolitoli subgroup, and this book is the first 
comprehensive decription of any of these languages. The Tomini-Tolitoli 
languages are of interest to typologists in general and more 
specifically to Austronesianists, since the languages appear to be 
transitional between better known 'Philippine style' languages and 
'Indonesian style' languages. Intricate rules of vowel harmony  in the 
prefixes used to form verb stems are of particular interest. The grammar 
is very richly exemplified and covers a wide range of linguistic 
phenomena from phonetics and phonology through to cohesion and 
prominence in discourse as well as an analysis of the discourse 
structure of a number of different genres.

2008 ISBN 9780858835818

Prices: Australia AUD $137.50 (incl. GST)

Overseas AUD $125.00


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