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Black & white maps, colour photographic portrait frontispiece. ix + 250pp. Unread and as new . A very good copy. Brill's Tibetan Studies Library: Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region. Volume 20. 24 x 16cm. "Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia blends insights from sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics and historical-comparative linguistics to shed new light on regional Tibeto-Burman language varieties and their relationships across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. The approach is inspired by leading Tibeto-Burmanist, David Bradley, to whom the book is dedicated. The volume includes twelve original research essays written by eleven Tibeto-Burmanists drawing on first-hand field research in five countries to explore Tibeto-Burman languages descended from seven internal sub-branches. Following two introductory chapters, each contribution is focused on a specific Tibeto-Burman language or sub-branch, collectively contributing to the literature on language identification, language documentation, typological analysis, historical-comparative classification, linguistic theory, and language endangerment research with new analyses, state-of-the-art summaries and contemporary applications. Part B is focused on the Sociohistorical Linguistics of language endangerment among Tibeto-Burman languages. Part C is focused on sociohistorical analyses of Tibeto-Burman languages in southwest China, and Part D returns to Tibeto-Burman languages of Southeast Asia proper." (Publisher's blurb).