SEALS XVI Papers from the 16th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2006

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CONTENTS: Preface, page vii. Pragmatic intricacy of Javanese figures of speech: too hard to understand? / Djatmika, page 1. Negotiated grammar and distributed cognition in Allang / Michael Ewing, page 5. Relative clauses in K’cho / Kee Shein Mang and George Bedell, page 21. West Coast Bajau: syntactically ergative or symmetrical voice? / Mark T. Miller, page 35. Cases of linguistic assimilation and etymological doublets in Javanese words of Arabic origin / Rochayah Machali, page 47. Malay numeral classifiers: sketching conceptual representation from a native speaker’s perspective / Khazriyati Salehuddin and Heather Winskel, page 65. Fataluku as a tone language / Ruben Stoel, page 75. The language choice behaviors of Paiwan people in the Taipei metropolitan area / Kai-lin Sung, page 85. A descriptive study of comparative constructions in Kavalan and Amis / Li-May Sung and Cheng-chuen Kuo, page 109. Grammaticalization paths of the Thai verb dây: a corpus-based study / Kiyoko Takahashi, page 121. A comparison of the expression of simultaneity in Thai and English adults and children using short animations / Heather Winskel and Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin, page 135. Reduced relative clauses in Thai and Vietnamese / Natchanan Yaowapat and Amara Prasithrathsint, page 143. Show more