Course contents and suggested bibliography

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15. Languages of Southeast Asia
DAVID GIL (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)

 Introduction:

 Session 1:

 Session 2:

 Session 3:

 Session 4:

 Session 5:

 Session 6:

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 Session 8:

 Session 9:

 Session 10:

Bibliography:

[This is a rather extensive list of books and articles related to the topics covered in the course.  It is provided as a reference only; students are not expected to read everything on the list.]

Abdullah Hasan ed. (1994) Language Planning in Southeast Asia, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur.

Adelaar, K. Alexander and D.J. Prentice (1996) "Malay: Its History, Role and Spread", in S.A. Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler and D.T. Tryon eds., Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 673-693.

Ansaldo, Umberto (1999) Comparative Constructions in Sinitic: Areal Typology and Patterns of Grammaticalisation, PhD Dissertation, Stockholm University, Stockholm.

Becker, Alton L. (1995) Beyond Translation: Essays Towards a Modern Philology, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.

Benjamin, Geoffrey (1993) "Grammar and Polity: The Cultural and Political Background to Standard Malay", in W.A. Foley ed., The Role of Theory in Language Description, Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 69, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 341-392.

Bhat, D.N.S. (1997) "Noun-Verb Distinction in Munda Languages", in A. Abbi ed., Languages of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples of India, The Ethnic Space, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 227-251.

Bisang, Walter (1991) "Verb Serialization, Grammaticalization and Attractor Positions in Chinese, Hmong, Vietnamese, Thai and Khmer", in H Seiler and W. Premper eds., Partizipation: das Sprachliche Erfassen von Sachverhalten, Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen, 509-562.

Bisang, Walter (1996) "Areal Typology and Grammaticalization: Processes of Grammaticalization Based on Nouns and Verbs in South-east Asian Languages", Studies in Language 20:519-597.

Blust, Robert (1997) "Nasals and Nasalization in Borneo", Oceanic Linguistics 36:149-179.

Burling, Robbins (1965) Context and Meaning in Cultural Anthropology, Free Press, Glencoe.

Broschart, Jürgen (1997) "Why Tongan Does It Differently: Categorial Distinctions in a Language withou Nouns and Verbs", Linguistic Typology1:123-165.

Capell, Arthur (1979) "Further Typological Studies in Southeast Asian Languages", in Nguyen Dang Liem ed., Southeast Asian Linguistic Studies, Volume 3, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, 1-42.

Chen, Matthew Y. (1987) "The Syntax of Xiamen Tone Sandhi", Phonology Yearbook 4:109-149.

Cheng, Robert (1968) "Tone Sandhi in Taiwanese", Linguistics 41:19-42.

Cheng, Robert (1973) "Some Notes on Tone Sandhi in Taiwanese", Linguistics 100:5-25.

Clark, Maybeth (1974) "Passive and Ergative in Vietnamese", in Nguyen Dang Liem ed., Southeast Asian Linguistic Studies, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, 75-88.

Clark, Maybeth (1989) "Hmong and Areal Southeast Asia", in D. Bradley ed. Southeast Asian Syntax, Pacific Linguistics A - 77, Canberra, 175-230.

Collins, James T. (1996) Malay, World Language of the Ages, A Sketch of Its History, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur.

Comrie, Bernard ed. (1990) The Major Languages of East and Southeast Asia, Routledge, London.

Comrie, Bernard (1996) "The Unity of Noun-Modifying Clauses in Asian Languages", in Pan-Asiatic Linguistics, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, January 8-10, 1996, Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University at Salaya, Volume 4, 1077-1088.

Comrie, Bernard (1998) "Rethinking the Typology of Relative Clauses", Language Design 1:59–86.

Conklin, Harold C. (1956) "Tagalog Speech Disguise", Language  32:136-139.

De Guzman, Videa P (1992) "Morphological Evidence for the Primacy of Patient as Subject in Tagalog", in M. Ross ed., Papers in Austronesian Linguistics, No. 2.  Pacific Linguistics Series A - 82, The Australian National University, Canberra, 87-96.

Diller, Anthony V.N. (1988) "Thai Syntax and 'National Grammar'", Language Sciences 10:272-312.

Dreyfuss, Jeff (1983) "The Backwards Language of Jakarta Youth (JYBL), A Bird of Many Language Feathers", in J.T. Collins ed., Studies in Malay Dialects, Part I, NUSA, Linguistic Studies of Indonesian and Other Languages of Indonesia, Volume 10, 52-56.

Enfield, N. E. (2001) "On Genetic and Areal Linguistics in Mainland South-East Asia: Parallel Polyfunctionality of 'Acquire'", in A. Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon eds., Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 255-290.

Enfield, N. E. (2003) Linguistic Epidemiology, Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia, Routledge Curzon, London and New York.

Foley, Joseph ed. (1988) New Englishes: The case of Singapore, Singapore University Press, Singapore.

Foley, William A. (1976) Comparative syntax in Austronesian, PhD Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley.

Gil, David (1984) "On the Notion of 'Direct Object' in Patient Prominent Languages", in F. Plank ed., Objects: Towards a Theory of Grammatical Relations,  Academic Press, London, 87-108.

Gil, David (1993) "Tagalog Semantics", in J.S. Guenter, B.A. Kaiser and C.C. Zoll eds., Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 12-15, 1993, Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, 390-403.

Gil, David (1994) "Conjunctive Operators: A Unified Semantic Analysis", in P. Bosch and R. van der Sandt eds., Focus and Natural Language Processing, Volume 2, Semantics, Proceedings of a Conference in Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Journal of Semantics, 12th-15th June, 1994, Hotel Schloß Wolfsbrunnen, Meinhard-Schwebda, Federal Republic of Germany, Working Papers of the Institute for Logic and Linguistics, Working Paper 7, ISSN 0946-7521, IBM TR-80.94-007, 311-322.

Gil, David (1994) "'Everything Also Must Grab: A Unified Semantic Analysis of Singlish 'Also'", in F. Plank ed., Agreement Gender Number Genitive &, EUROTYP Working Papers, Series 7, Number 23, The European Science Foundation, EUROTYP Programme, Berlin, 133-145.

Gil, David (1994) "The Structure of Riau Indonesian", Nordic Journal of Linguistics 17:179-200.

Gil, David (1996) "How to Speak Backwards in Tagalog", in Pan-Asiatic Linguistics, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, January 8-10, 1996, Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University at Salaya, Volume 1, 297-306.

Gil, David (1996) "Maltese 'Collective Nouns':  A Typological Perspective", Rivista di Linguistica 8:53-87.

Gil, David (2000) "Syntactic Categories, Cross-Linguistic Variation and Universal Grammar", in P. M. Vogel and B. Comrie eds., Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes, Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, Mouton, Berlin and New York, 173-216.

Gil, David (2001) "Creoles, Complexity and Riau Indonesian", Linguistic Typology 5:325-371.

Gil, David (2001) "Escaping Eurocentrism:  Fieldwork as a Process of Unlearning", in P. Newman and M. Ratliff eds., Linguistic Fieldwork, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 102-132.

Gil, David (2001) "Reflexive Anaphor or Conjunctive Operator?  Riau Indonesian sendiri", in P. Cole, C.-T. J. Huang and G. Hermon eds., Long Distance Reflexives,  Syntax and Semantics 33,  Academic Press, New York, 83-117.

Gil, David (2002) "Ludlings in Malayic Languages: An Introduction", in Bambang Kaswanti Purwo ed., PELBBA 15, Pertemuan Linguistik Pusat Kajian Bahasa dan Budaya Atma Jaya: Kelima Belas, Unika Atma Jaya, Jakarta, 125-180.

Gil, David (2003) "English Goes Asian; Number and (In)definiteness in the Singlish Noun-Phrase", in F. Plank ed., Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe, Empirical Approaches to Language Typology, Eurotyp 20-7, Mouton, Berlin and New York, 467-514.

Gil, David (2003) "How Children Acquire Syntactic Categories in Jakarta Indonesian", in Katharina Endriati Sukatmo ed., Kolita 1, Konferensi Linguistik Tahunan Atma Jaya, Pusat Kajian Bahasa dan Budaya, Unika Atma Jaya, Jakarta, 265-269.

Gil, David (to appear) "Adjectives without Nouns", in M. Dryer, M. Haspelmath, D. Gil and B. Comrie eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Gil, David (to appear) "Conjunctions and Universal Quantifiers", in M. Dryer, M. Haspelmath, D. Gil and B. Comrie eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Gil, David (to appear) "Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses", in M. Dryer, M. Haspelmath, D. Gil and B. Comrie eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Gil, David (to appear) "Intonation and Thematic Roles in Riau Indonesian", in M. Gordon, D. Büring and C.M. Lee eds., Topic, Focus and Intonation [tentative title], Kluwer, Deventer.

Gil, David (to appear) "Numeral Classifiers", in M. Dryer, M. Haspelmath, D. Gil and B. Comrie eds., World Atlas of Language Structures, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Gil, David (to appear) "The Acquisition of Voice Morphology in Jakarta Indonesian", in Natalia Gagarina ed. The Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Verb Arguments [tentative title], Kluwer, Deventer.

Gupta, Anthea Fraser (1992) "Contact Features of Singapore Colloquial English", in K. Bolton and H. Kwok eds., Sociolinguistics Today, International Perspectives, Routledge, London and New York, 323-345.

Gupta, Anthea Fraser (1992) "The Pragmatic Particles of Singapore Colloquial English", Journal of Pragmatics 18:31-57.

Gupta, Anthea Fraser (1994) The Step-Tongue, Children's English in Singapore, Multilingual Matters Ltd., Clevedon.

Haas, Mary R. (1942) "The Use of Numeral Classifiers in Thai", Language 18:201-206.

Haudricourt, André G. (1954) "De l'Origine des Tons en Vietnamien", Journal Asiatique 242:68-82.

Himmelmann, Nikolaus (1991) The Philippine Challenge to Universal Grammar, Arbeitspapier Nr. 15, Neue Folge, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln., Cologne.

Hombert, Jean-Marie (1986) "Word Games: Some Implications for Analysis of Tone and Other Phonological Constructs", in J.J. Ohala and J.J. Jaeger eds., Experimental Phonology, Academic Press, Orlando, 175-186.

Ho Mian-Lian and John T. Platt (1993) Dynamics of a Contact Continuum, Singaporean English, Oxford Studies in Language Contact, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

McWhorter, John (2001) "The World's Simpllest Grammars are Creole Grammars",  Linguistic Typology 5:125-166.

McWhorter, John (2001) "What People Ask David Gil and Why",  Linguistic Typology 5:388-412.

Matisoff, James A. (1991) "Areal and Universal Dimensions of Grammatization in Lahu", in E. C. Traugott and B. Heine eds., Approaches to Grammaticalization, Benjamins, Amsterdam, 383-453.

Matisoff,James A. (1992) "Southeast Asian Languages", in W. Bright and B. Comrie eds., International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics, Vol IV, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 44-48.

Matisoff, James A. (2001) "Genetic versus Contact Relationship: Prosodic Diffusability in Southeast Asian Languages", in A. Y. Aikhenvald and R.M.W. Dixon eds., Areal Diffusion and Genetic Inheritance: Problems in Comparative Linguistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 291-327.

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Platt, John T. (1975) "The Singapore English Speech Continuum and Its Basilect 'Singlish' as a 'Creoloid'", Anthropological Linguistics 17:363-374.

Platt, John T. and Heidi Weber (1980) English in Singapore and Malaysia, Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur.

Prentice, D.J. and A. Hakim Usman (1978) "Kerinci Sound-Changes and Phonotactics", in S.A. Wurm and L. Carrington eds., Second Interrnational Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: Proceedings, Fascicle 1, Western Austronesian, Pacific Linguistics Series C - No. 61, Australian National University, Canberra, 121-163.

Ratliff, Martha (1991) "Cov, The Underspecified Noun, and Syntactic Flexibility in Hmong", Journal of the American Oriental Society 3:694-703.

Riddle, Elizabeth and Herbert Stahlke (1992) "Linguistic Typology and Sinospheric Languages", in M. Ratliff and E. Schiller eds., Papers from the First Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1991, Arizona State University, Tempe, 351-366.

Schachter, Paul (1976) "The Subject in Philippine Languages. Topic, Actor, Actor-Topic, or None of the Above?" in C.N. Li ed., Subject and Topic, Academic Press, New York, 491-518

Schachter, Pau (1977) "Reference-Related and Role-Related Properties of Subjects", in  P. Cole and J. M. Sadock eds., Syntax and Semantics 8, Grammatical Relations, Academic Press, New York, 279-306.

Shkarban, Lina I. (1992) "Syntactic Aspect of Part-of-Speech Typology", in S. Luksaneeyanawin ed., Pan-Asiatic Linguistics, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Language and Linguistics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Volume 1, 261-275.

Steinhauer, H. and A. Hakim Usman (1978) "Notes on the Morphemics of Kerinci (Sumatra)", in S.A. Wurm and L. Carrington eds., Second Interrnational Conference on Austronesian Linguistics: Proceedings, Fascicle 1, Western Austronesian, Pacific Linguistics Series C - No. 61, Australian National University, Canberra, 483-501.

Wouk, Fay and Malcolm Ross eds. (2002) The History and Typology of Western Austronesian Voice Systems, Pacific Linguistics, Canberra.

Yap, Foong-Ha (1999) The Polysemy of "Give" Constructions in Malay and Other Languages: A Grammaticalization Perspective, PhD Disssertation, University of California, Los Angeles.

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