Linguistic Epidemiology
Subtitle: Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia (Curzon Asian Linguistics)
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: November 15, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780415297431
First sentence: ACROSS THE PENINSULA of mainland Southeast Asia, languages again and again display a complex grammatical pattern involving a word which we may label 'ACQUIRE'.