{"title":"Introduction: Languages of the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area – Grammatical Sketches","authors":"Alice Vittrant, J. Watkins","doi":"10.1515/9783110401981-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401981-001","url":null,"abstract":"Thomason and Kaufman’s 1988 book Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics had a stimulating effect on the fields of comparative and descriptive linguistics and inspired a number of studies on various topics related to language contact: the relationship between typology and language contact; the effect of language contact on a language’s genetically inherited characteristics, and work on mixed and endangered languages. More generally speaking, the increased availability of data relating to language contact has enabled widerranging discussion on the nature of language contact and its consequences (see Hickey 2010 for a more detailed account of these subjects). Within this landscape, our book lies at the crossroads of the following themes: (1) vulnerable and endangered languages, since some of the languages described here are minority languages losing ground under the linguistic influence of dominant neighbouring languages (see chapters on Cham, Wa); (2) areal typology, since our book is concerned with one area in particular: Mainland Southeast Asia (hereafter MSEA); (3) language contact and genetic affiliation, since the various grammatical sketches lay emphasis on characteristics shared by unrelated languages. This in turn raises the question of how such traits are acquired and how they spread, though neither of these two issues is addressed in this volume, at least from a typological perspective. Specifically, we address here the issue of linguistic area or Sprachbund. This issue is closely associated with language contact and has been discussed extensively over the past fifteen years (see Thomason 2000, 2001; Muysken 2000; Stolz 2002; Heine & Kuteva 2005; Campbell 2006; Bisang 2006a; 2006b; 2006c; Matras et al. 2006; Matras & Sakel 2007; Muysken 2008; and Bisang 2010, inter _____","PeriodicalId":357589,"journal":{"name":"The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124214304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110401981-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401981-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357589,"journal":{"name":"The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127209638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Southern Min","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110401981-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401981-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357589,"journal":{"name":"The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132430869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guidelines for the description of Mainland Southeast Asian languages","authors":"Alice Vittrant, J. Watkins","doi":"10.1515/9783110401981-015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401981-015","url":null,"abstract":"Appendice: Guideline for writing a Southeast Asian language description Alice Vittrant and Justin Watkins https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401981-015 Each author who contributed to the volume was provided with a suggested plan covering the following comprehensive overview of the linguistic features which form the basis for considering Mainland South-East Asia to be a linguistic area. From the outset, we hoped that chapters with similarly organised content would make for better comparison between languages and allow common linguistic features to appear more prominently.# Enfield (2005) is a useful summary of the linguistic features of the Mainland Sout-East Asian linguistic area, as is Matisoff (1986b). Much of the data upon which Matisoff and Enfield base their accounts was presented in an earlier comparative typological survey by Eugénie Henderson (1965) which catalogues a wide range of linguistic features in 59 languages including languages of mainland Southeast Asia and further afield in the region. Henderson includes all the languages represented in this volume, with the exception Min Chinese and Khumi, though she does include other Chinese languages (Cantonese, Mandarin and Hakka) and other Chin languages (Tiddim and Lushai). Henderson notes: ‘In the course of investigations extending over many years into the present phonological and grammatical structure of a variety of languages in the South East Asian mainland, my attention has, however, inescapably been drawn to a number of features which suggest themselves as characteristic of the area.’","PeriodicalId":357589,"journal":{"name":"The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area","volume":"799 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121470616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wa (Paraok)","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110401981-010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401981-010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357589,"journal":{"name":"The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126233206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yongning Na (Mosuo)","authors":"Liberty A Lidz","doi":"10.1515/9783110401981-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401981-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357589,"journal":{"name":"The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area","volume":"abs/1405.1194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122285133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Colloquial Eastern Cham","authors":"Marc Brunelle, Phú Văn Hẳn","doi":"10.1515/9783110401981-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401981-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357589,"journal":{"name":"The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127220593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pwo Karen","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783110401981-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401981-004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357589,"journal":{"name":"The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123270068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thai","authors":"Y. Tanaboriboon","doi":"10.1515/9783110401981-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110401981-013","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this study was to investigate the expectations and the aspects that affect Japaneseûs expectation toward service quality of Thai restaurant in Japan. This study was based on the survey of 170 Japaneses in Kanto region and 170 Japaneses in Kansai region aged over 20 years who have at least one time experience of dining at any Thai restaurant in Japan. The result attained from this study can be concluded that the sampling group had different expectations toward each service quality factor. çReliability dimensioné was","PeriodicalId":357589,"journal":{"name":"The Mainland Southeast Asia Linguistic Area","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124954805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}