Books in the Routledge Studies in Asian Linguistics series

This book is concerned with: the universality of constraints on code-switching, the nature of the relation between language contact and bilingualism, and the social and linguistic components that facilitate code-switching.

This book introduces the syntactic process of auxiliary formation and applies it to the grammatical analysis of the indicative, or non-modal, auxiliary verbs of Modern Tamil.

This book is a grammar of Mangghuer, a Mongolic language. Its primary importance is as a systematic grammatical description of a little-known language. It also makes a significant contribution to comparative Mongolic studies.

This title investigates the origin and development of a range of grammatical words in Chinese and how such morphemes have undergone reanalysis as new functional categories via different mechanisms of grammaticalization.

This text offers a contribution to the study of the Chinese language. It deals with phenomena which have a high token frequency in Chinese texts and natural speech, but which have been under-investigated in other studies.

The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic and grammatical change in a linguistic area, as well as representing theoretical advances in cognitive semantics.

This book shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in East Asian languages adds much to our general understanding of the close connection between form and interpretation.

This book shows how the study of formal structures and functional morphemes in East Asian languages adds much to our general understanding of the close connection between form and interpretation.