LINGUIST List 17.3355

Thu Nov 16 2006

Books: Language Description: Sidwell, Cooper, Bauer (Eds), Shorto

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Directory         1.    Julie Manley, A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary: Sidwell, Cooper, Bauer (Eds), Shorto
Message 1: A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary: Sidwell, Cooper, Bauer (Eds), Shorto
Date: 04-Nov-2006
From: Julie Manley <jmanleycoombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary: Sidwell, Cooper, Bauer (Eds), Shorto


Title: A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary Published: 2006 Publisher: Pacific Linguistics
                http://pacling.anu.edu.au/

Book URL: http://www.pacling.com/catalogue/579.html

Author: Harry Shorto Editor: Paul James Sidwell Editor: Doug Cooper Editor: Christian Bauer Paperback: ISBN: 0858835703 Pages: 599 Price: AUS $ 110.00 Comment: In Australia AUS $121.00 (incl. GST)
Abstract:

A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary is the magnum opus of Professor Harry L.Shorto (1919-1995), formerly Professor of Mon-Khmer Studies in theUniversity of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, until hisretirement in 1984. He is the author of two standard reference works, ADictionary of Modern Spoken Mon (1962) and the highly respected author ofthe standard reference to epigraphic Mon - A Dictionary of the MonInscriptions (1971) - as well as the classic dictionary. Shorto held theChair in Mon-Khmer Studies. The MKCD is Shorto's grand synthesis of seventyyears of historical and comparative research on the Mon-Khmer languages.

Meant to be published in the early 1980s, Shorto's manuscript wasrediscovered by his daughter Anna, and has been carefully edited in linewith the author's intentions. The MKCD presents 2,246 etymologies withalmost 30,000 lexical citations; even today, it is the most extensiveanalysis of Mon-Khmer to appear since Wilhelm Schmidt laid the foundationsof comparative Mon-Khmer exactly 100 years ago with the Grundzüge einerLautlehre der Mon-Khmer-Sprachen (1905) and Die Mon-Khmer-Völker (1906).

A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary includes numerous Munda, Austronesian,Thai, Burmese and Chinese lexical comparisons. It is an incomparableresource for studying Southeast Asia's rich legacy of language contact, andfor investigating distant genetic relations with its largest, oldestlanguage family. Clearly establishing the terms of reference for futurediscussion of Mon-Khmer etymology, Shorto's MKCD joins such defining worksas Emeneau and Burrow's A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary (1961) andTurner's A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages (1966-85) inthe canon of 20th century comparative linguistics.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Description                             Historical Linguistics                             Language Description Language Family(ies): Mon-Khmer
Written In: English (eng )

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