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This paper deals with an areal feature shared by languages spoken in Indo-China and Southern China, namely, the presence of a modal element in a for these languages a-typical post-verbal position. In this paper we investigate the properties of this element in Cantonese, Lao, Vietnamese and Zhuang. One of the questions we focus on is the fact that the element in question can be translated with 'can', but the languages differ in that only in a subset of them, it can mean 'can-ability'. It turns out that the interpretational properties of the element is tightly interrelated with both syntactic and interpretational properties of the resultative construction.

Areal linguistics. --- Area linguistics --- Geolinguistics --- Linguistics

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The authors are outstanding scholars engaged in the study of language varieties spoken in 'convergence areas' in which speakers are multilingual in languages of at least two but sometimes all three language families. Many of the contributions present new data collected in fieldwork. The geographic area covered is Western and Central Asia where varieties of Iranian, Semitic and Turkic languages have entered into many different types of contact. The intricate linguistic contact situations demonstrate highly interesting convergence phenomena.

Languages in contact --- Areal linguistics. --- Area linguistics --- Geolinguistics --- Linguistics --- Areal linguistics

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The intention of the present volume is to unite the research of a range of scholars who have been working on features of non-standard, vernacular English which show an areal distribution, i.e. which cluster geographically across the world. Features common to an area can be due to (i) shared dialect input, (ii) common but separate innovations after settlement, or (iii) area-internal diffusion from one variety to another and/or others. The relative weighting of these factors is an important topic in the book and is a key focus in the 17 chapters. The book is divided into two large blocks, the first one consisting of case studies (8 chapters) and the second with features complexes (9 chapters). The former look at major anglophone locations from an areal perspective while the latter examine linguistic categories and features with a view to determine whether these could be areally based or not.

Linguistic geography. --- Areal linguistics. --- Area linguistics --- Geolinguistics --- Linguistics --- Dialect geography --- Geography, Linguistic --- Language and languages --- Language geography --- Areal linguistics --- Dialectology --- Geography --- Dialectology. --- English.

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Quantifying Language Dynamics: On the Cutting Edge of Areal and Phylogenetic Linguistics contains specially-selected papers introducing new, quantitative methodologies for understanding language interaction and evolution. It draws upon data from the phonologies, morphologies, numeral systems, constituent orders, case systems, and lexicons of the world’s languages, bringing large datasets and sophisticated statistical techniques to bear on fundamental questions such as: how to identify and account for areal distributions, when language contact leads to grammatical simplification, whether patterns of morphological borrowing can be predicted, how to deal with contact within phylogenetic models, and what new techniques are most effective for classification of the world’s languages. The book is relevant for students and scholars in general linguistics, typology, and historical and comparative linguistics.

Linguistics --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Areal linguistics. --- Area linguistics --- Geolinguistics --- Analysis, Linguistic (Linguistics) --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Research --- Methodology.

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Language and languages --- Bilingualism --- Multilingualism --- Langage et langues --- Bilinguisme --- Multilinguisme --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Areal linguistics --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Languages in contact --- Area linguistics --- Geolinguistics --- Linguistics --- Areal linguistics. --- Bilingualism. --- Multilingualism.