Bauer Robert S. (Ed.). Collected papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific languages

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2002. — 213 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 530).The languages investigated in these papers represent the five major language families or subfamilies (depending on one's classification schema) of mainland and insular Southeast Asia, viz., (1) Tibeto-Burman with Meiteilon (Manipuri); (2) Mon-Khmer with Alak, Bru, Chatong, Dak Kang, Kaseng, Katu, Laven, Lavi, Nge', Nyah Kur, Suai, Ta Oi', Tariang, Tariw, Vietnamese, Yaeh; (3) Tai with Nung An, Lao, and Hlai; (4) Austronesian with Chamorro; and (5) the Malayo-Polynesian family itself.
The eleven papers have been classified under five broad linguistic topics:Linguistic analysis
A.G. Khan - Impact of linguistic borrowing on Meiteilon (Manipuri)
N.J. Enfield - Functions of 'give' and 'take' in Lao complex predicates
Sophana Srichampa - Vietnamese verbal reduplicationLanguage classification
Jerold A. Edmondson - Nùng An: origin of a species
Lawrence A. Reid - Morphosyntactic evidence for the position of Chamorro in the Austronesian family
Theraphan L-Thongkum - A brief look at the thirteen Mon-Khmer languages of Xekong Province, Southern LaosDiscourse analysis
John and Carolyn Miller - The tiger mother's child and the cow mother's child: a preliminary look at a Bru epic
Somsonge Burusphat - The temporal movement of the Hlai (Li) origin mythSociolinguistics
Suwilai Premsrirat - The future of Nyah KurHistorical linguistics
Graham Thurgood - A comment on Gedney's proposal for another series of voiced initials in Proto Tai
Stanley Starosta - The rise and fall and rise and fall of Proto Malayo-Polynesian