Flood impact on Mainland Southeast Asia between 1985 and 2018—The role of tropical cyclones

Changes in word shapes in Mainland Southeast Asia are usually attributed to contact-induced typological convergence. However, little attention has been paid to the role of structural constraints in defining paths of change. In this paper, we describe two distributional gaps in paths of word shape shifts: (1) there are no attested cases of direct shift between trochaic and iambic rhythm and (2) monosyllabization does not occur in trochaic languages. We argue that universal phonetic tendencies and structural constraints on their phonologization that derive from the Iambic-Trochaic Law are sufficient to explain these gaps and seem to account for at least part of the typological convergence usually attributed to contact.

Download Full-text

Cross-border forest disturbance and the role of natural rubber in mainland Southeast Asia using annual Landsat time series

Remote Sensing of Environment ◽

10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.001 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 169 ◽

pp. 438-453 ◽

Cited By ~ 46

Author(s):

Kenneth Grogan ◽

Dirk Pflugmacher ◽

Patrick Hostert ◽

Robert Kennedy ◽

Rasmus Fensholt

Keyword(s):

Time Series ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Natural Rubber ◽

Forest Disturbance ◽

Cross Border ◽

Mainland Southeast Asia

Download Full-text

Areality in Modality and Mood

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.19 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Björn Hansen ◽

Umberto Ansaldo

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

External Factors ◽

Mainland Southeast Asia

This chapter surveys areal features in the range of modality and mood marking in two contact regions, viz. Europe and MSEA (mainland Southeast Asia), in the context of a discussion of general features and properties—language-internal and -external ones—of linguistic areality. It starts out with a general typology of individual borrowing processes affecting modality and mood markers. It then presents some convergence processes and discusses selected areal features of modals and mood markers in the linguistic area of Europe. And, more succinctly, it deals with MSEA, focusing on the case of “acquire-type” modals. The chapter concludes with some further reflections emerging from the discussion of modality and mood markers in Europe and MSEA on the role of language-external factors in the rise of linguistic areas.

Download Full-text

A Review of Thailand's Foreign Policy in Mainland Southeast Asia: Exploring an Ideational Approach

European Journal of East Asian Studies ◽

10.1163/15700615-20120009 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 127-154 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

Active Role ◽

Self Perception ◽

Post Cold War ◽

Economic Rationale ◽

Regional Leadership ◽

Regional Projects ◽

Mainland Southeast Asia

AbstractIn the post-Cold War period, mainland Southeast Asia has been significantly marked by peace and stability, despite occasional bilateral tensions among neighbouring countries. Within this environment Thailand has been a primary advocate for various sub-regional co-operation initiatives since the early 1990s. Interestingly, these regional projects have mainly been Thailand's own self-initiated version, in which Thailand acts as the main co-ordinator, sometimes bypassing broader regional entities, especially ASEAN. Conventional wisdom may explain this phenomenon by resorting to the economic rationale in Thai foreign policy. However, in some circumstances economic benefit is not a decisive factor considering associated costs. This article, therefore, proposes to use an ideational lens to reassess Thailand's regional leadership by focusing on the role of self-perception/identity in determining Thailand's foreign policy preferences. It argues that Thailand's identity as a leading country in mainland Southeast Asia helps sustain its active role in sub-regional endeavours. The Quadrangle Economic Co-operation (QEC) initiative is examined here to show the intervention of Thailand's self-perception in the endurance of its leadership in this regional initiative.

Download Full-text

Rhinocerotidae from the early Miocene of the Negev (Israel) and implications for the dispersal of early Neogene rhinoceroses

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/jpa.2021.64 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Luca Pandolfi ◽

Ran Calvo ◽

Ari Grossman ◽

Rivka Rabinovich

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

South Asian ◽

North Africa ◽

Range Expansion ◽

New Records ◽

Ct Scanning ◽

Early Miocene ◽

Early Neogene ◽

Postcranial Remains

Abstract A revision of the rhinocerotid material from the Negev (Israel), dating back to the early Miocene (MN3 in the European Mammal Biochronology), highlights the presence of Brachypotherium and a taxon close to Gaindatherium in the Levantine corridor. A juvenile mandible, investigated using CT scanning, displays morphologically distinct characters consistent with Brachypotherium cf. B. snowi rather than with other Eurasian representatives of this genus. Some postcranial remains from the Negev, such as a humerus, display features that distinguish it among Miocene taxa. We attribute these postcrania to cf. Gaindatherium sp., a taxon never recorded outside the Siwaliks until now. This taxon dispersed into the Levantine region during the late early Miocene, following a pattern similar to other South Asian taxa. Brachypotherium cf. B. snowi probably occurred in the Levantine region and then in North Africa during the early Miocene because its remains are known from slightly younger localities such as Moghara (Egypt) and Jebel Zelten (Libya). The occurrence cf. Gaindatherium sp. represents a previously unrecorded range expansion out of Southeast Asia. These new records demonstrate the paleogeographic importance of the Levantine region showcasing the complex role of the Levantine corridor in intercontinental dispersals between Asia and Europe as well as Eurasia and Africa.

Download Full-text

Language policy and language planning in mainland Southeast Asia: Myanmar and Lisu

Linguistics Vanguard ◽

10.1515/lingvan-2018-0071 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

David Bradley

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Language Policy ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Minority Group ◽

National Language ◽

Minority Languages ◽

Language Policy And Planning ◽

Educational Strategies ◽

Policy And Planning ◽

Mainland Southeast Asia

AbstractMost nations in mainland Southeast Asia and elsewhere have one national language as a focus of national identity and unity, supported by a language policy which promotes and develops this language. Indigenous and immigrant minority groups within each nation may be marginalized; their languages may become endangered. Some of the official national language policies and ethnic policies of mainland Southeast Asian nations aim to support both a national language and indigenous minority languages, but usually the real policy is less positive. It is possible to use sociolinguistic and educational strategies to maintain the linguistic heritage and diversity of a nation, develop bilingual skills among minority groups, and integrate minorities successfully into the nations where they live, but this requires commitment and effort from the minorities themselves and from government and other authorities. The main focus of this paper is two case studies: one of language policy and planning in Myanmar, whose language policy and planning has rarely been discussed before. The other is on the Lisu, a minority group in Myanmar and surrounding countries, who have been relatively successful in maintaining their language.

Download Full-text

Late Pleistocene human paleoecology in the highland savanna ecosystem of mainland Southeast Asia

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-96260-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Kantapon Suraprasit ◽

Rasmi Shoocongdej ◽

Kanoknart Chintakanon ◽

Hervé Bocherens

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Late Pleistocene ◽

Tooth Enamel ◽

Stable Carbon Isotope ◽

Lower Latitude ◽

Stable Carbon ◽

Hunter Gatherers ◽

Carbon And Oxygen Isotope ◽

Northwestern Thailand ◽

Mainland Southeast Asia

AbstractThe late Pleistocene settlement of highland settings in mainland Southeast Asia by Homo sapiens has challenged our species’s ability to occupy mountainous landscapes that acted as physical barriers to the expansion into lower-latitude Sunda islands during sea-level lowstands. Tham Lod Rockshelter in highland Pang Mapha (northwestern Thailand), dated between 34,000 and 12,000 years ago, has yielded evidence of Hoabinhian lithic assemblages and natural resource use by hunter-gatherer societies. To understand the process of early settlements of highland areas, we measured stable carbon and oxygen isotope compositions of Tham Lod human and faunal tooth enamel. Our assessment of the stable carbon isotope results suggests long-term opportunistic behavior among hunter-gatherers in foraging on a variety of food items in a mosaic environment and/or inhabiting an open forest edge during the terminal Pleistocene. This study reinforces the higher-latitude and -altitude extension of a forest-grassland mosaic ecosystem or savanna corridor (farther north into northwestern Thailand), which facilitated the dispersal of hunter-gatherers across mountainous areas and possibly allowed for consistency in a human subsistence strategy and Hoabinhian technology in the highlands of mainland Southeast Asia over a 20,000-year span near the end of the Pleistocene.

Download Full-text

Written cultures in mainland Southeast Asia - Edited by Masao Kashinaga

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9655.2010.01632_42.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 451-452

Author(s):

Nicholas Tapp

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Mainland Southeast Asia

Download Full-text

The Role of Congress in the Development of a Responsible American Policy Toward Angola

Issue A Journal of Opinion ◽

10.1017/s0047160700500286 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 18-21

Author(s):

Gerald J. Bender

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Political Parties ◽

Southeast Asia ◽

The United States ◽

Current Situation ◽

Commission Report ◽

American Policy

In addition to our discussions today of the current situation in Angola, I would like to direct my remarks to the question of what role, if any, the United States should play with regard to Angola, and concretely, how the Congress can assist in the formulation and execution of a responsible American policy toward Angola. We have all learned a number of important lessons from recent revelations about the conduct of American policy in Southeast Asia, about Government coverups such as Watergate, corporate bribery of foreign officials and political parties, and about the illegal and unacceptable activities of the CIA as described in the Rockefeller Commission report and elsewhere. Certainly we can apply some of these lessons to our present consideration of U.S. policy toward Angola; hopefully we will learn the vital facts and ask the necessary questions now, rather than, as has too often been the case, after the fact.

Download Full-text