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  Title

  Cambodian : Khmer

  Author

  Haiman, John.  

  Publisher:

  John Benjamins Pub. Co.,

  Pub date:

  ©2011.

  Physical Description

  1 online resource (xiii, 425 pages).

  ISBN:

  9789027285027

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Main Library.
  

  • 9789027285027
    
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  Cambodian : Khmer
  Haiman, John.
  

  ISBN:

  9789027285027 (electronic bk.)

  ISBN:

  9027285020 (electronic bk.)

  ISBN:

  1283280507

  ISBN:

  9781283280501

  ISBN:

  (ISBN invalid)9789027238160

  ISBN:

  (ISBN invalid)9027238162

  Local system #:

  (OCoLC)758491354 (OCoLC)753480178 (OCoLC)755977796 (OCoLC)816865017 (OCoLC)961522462 (OCoLC)962716296

  Dewey Decimal Classification Number:

  495.9/3282421 23

  Personal Author:

  Haiman, John.

  Title:

  Cambodian : Khmer / John Haiman.

  Publication info:

  Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2011.

  Physical descript:

  1 online resource (xiii, 425 pages).

  Content Type:

  text txt

  Media carrier:

  computer c

  Carrier Type:

  online resource cr

  347:

  data file rda

  Series statement:

  (London Oriental and African language library ; v. 16)

  Bibliography note:

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Contents:

  Cambodian; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Abbreviations; 1. Phonology and orthography; 2. The structure of words; 3. Derivational morphology and word formation; 4. Symmetrical compounds; 5. The conventional Noun Phrase; 6. Indexical words; 7. Clausal syntax; 1. The order of arguments; 2. Predicate complements; 3. Nominal adpositions; 4. Modification; 5. Coordination; 6. Negation; 7. Questions; 8. Imperatives; 9. Marking topics; 10. Kw: and focus marking; Notes; 8. Complex verbal predicates and verbal clumps; 9. Explicit clause combining.

  Abstract/summary:

  Cambodian is in many respects a typical Southeast Asian language, whose syntax at least on first acquaintance seems to approximate that of any SVO pidgin. On closer acquaintance, however, because of the richness of its idioms, the language seems to be a forbiddingly alien form of "Desesperanto"--A language of which one can read a page and understand every word individually, and have no inkling of what the page was all about. Like many of the languages of its genetic (Austroasiatic) family, its basic root vocabulary seems to consist largely of sesquisyllabic or iambic words, although there are ...

  Subject term:

  Khmer language--Grammar.

  Series uniform title:

  London Oriental and African language library ; v. 16.

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