Elaborate expressions in Dai Lue

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Hanna, William J.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Payap University and Summer Institute of Linguistics
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2024
• الموضوعات: Arts and Humanities; Elaborate expression; Coordinate compound
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177628
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The Dai Lue language, in common with other Southeast Asian languages, has many elaborate expressions: four-syllable units that often have idiomatic and colourful meanings. Using data from a corpus of Dai Lue texts, this paper explains seven strategies that are used for creating elaborate expre...