Psycho-collocations' in Malay: a Southeast Asian areal feature

Though mainland and insular Southeast Asia may be thought of in many ways as constituting a single regional entity — unified by common geographical conditions and by centuries of commercial and cultural contact — the languages of these two adjacent areas would appear, on the face of it, to have very...

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Main Author: Oey, Eric M.
Other Authors: University of California, Berkeley
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179211
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description Though mainland and insular Southeast Asia may be thought of in many ways as constituting a single regional entity — unified by common geographical conditions and by centuries of commercial and cultural contact — the languages of these two adjacent areas would appear, on the face of it, to have very little In common with each other. Indeed, typologically. they could hardly be more different — the languages of "Indochina" being predominantly (though not exclusively) isolating, monosyllabic (or tending to monosyllabicity) and tonal, whereas those of the "Malay Archipelago are polysyllabic, agglutinating and non-tonal. On this basis alone, it has always been assumed that they belong to entirely distinct stocks, with only marginal regional overlap.
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spelling ntu-10356/1792112024-07-24T07:46:23Z Psycho-collocations' in Malay: a Southeast Asian areal feature Oey, Eric M. University of California, Berkeley Arts and Humanities Though mainland and insular Southeast Asia may be thought of in many ways as constituting a single regional entity — unified by common geographical conditions and by centuries of commercial and cultural contact — the languages of these two adjacent areas would appear, on the face of it, to have very little In common with each other. Indeed, typologically. they could hardly be more different — the languages of "Indochina" being predominantly (though not exclusively) isolating, monosyllabic (or tending to monosyllabicity) and tonal, whereas those of the "Malay Archipelago are polysyllabic, agglutinating and non-tonal. On this basis alone, it has always been assumed that they belong to entirely distinct stocks, with only marginal regional overlap. Published version 2024-07-24T07:46:23Z 2024-07-24T07:46:23Z 1990 Journal Article Oey, E. M. (1990). Psycho-collocations' in Malay: a Southeast Asian areal feature. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 13(1), 141-158. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.13.1.07 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179211 10.32655/LTBA.13.1.07 1 13 141 158 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1990 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf
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Psycho-collocations' in Malay: a Southeast Asian areal feature
title Psycho-collocations' in Malay: a Southeast Asian areal feature
title_full Psycho-collocations' in Malay: a Southeast Asian areal feature
title_fullStr Psycho-collocations' in Malay: a Southeast Asian areal feature
title_full_unstemmed Psycho-collocations' in Malay: a Southeast Asian areal feature
title_short Psycho-collocations' in Malay: a Southeast Asian areal feature
title_sort psycho collocations in malay a southeast asian areal feature
topic Arts and Humanities
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