Lao is the national language of Laos, and is also spoken widely in Thailand and Cambodia. It is a tone language of the Tai-Kadai family (Southwestern Tai branch). Lao is an extreme example of the isolating, analytic language type. This book is the most comprehensive grammatical description of Lao to date. It describes and analyses the important structures of the language, including classifiers, sentence-final particles, and serial verb constructions. Special attention is paid to grammatical topics from a semantic, pragmatic, and typological perspective.
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A Grammar of Lao
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Table of contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Overview
- Chapter 2. Language background
- Chapter 3. Phonology
- Chapter 4. Sentence-final and phrase-final particles
- Chapter 5. Pronouns
- Chapter 6. Nominal modification
- Chapter 7. Nominal classification
- Chapter 8. Reference management
- Chapter 9. Aspectual-modal marking
- Chapter 10. Verbs and verb types
- Chapter 11. Basic clausal syntax
- Chapter 12. Expressive forms
- Chapter 13. Non-canonical transitive events
- Chapter 14. Preliminary remarks on multi-verb constructions
- Chapter 15. Three-participant events
- Chapter 16. Spatial predication
- Chapter 17. Secondary predication
- Chapter 18. Causation
- Chapter 19. Complementation
- Chapter 20. Coordinating constructions
- Chapter 21. Adverbial constructions
- Chapter 22. Summary remark on multi-verb constructions
- Chapter 23. Texts
- Backmatter
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