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A Grammar of Lao

NJ Enfield author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:20th Nov '07

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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.

ISBN: 9783110185881

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1131g

593 pages

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