Items for "Tai"

Constituent order change in the Tai languages of Assam

The Tai languages of Assam (India), among them Tai Khamti, are characterised by AVO/SV constituent order, conditioned by a complex interplay of pragmatics, particularly focus structure...

Keywords: adposition, Ahom, discourse, focus, Khamti, linguistic area, Phake, Tai, topicalization, word order, word order change