This book presents an overview of the aspectual system of Burmese, analysing the meaning and function of some aspectual markers which are among the most commonly used in the language.

This is a set of Burmese language, conversation and phrase books which contains an introduction to the spoken language, script and literary style.

Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. This book argues that many aspects of Burmese society today, from the borders of the state to the social structure of the countryside to the very notion of a Burmese identity, are largely the creations of the nineteenth century.

This paper is part of the Pacific Linguistics Series published by Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. It includes maps of Burma (Myanmar), Burmese dialects, reflexives in Burmese, a re-examination of Burmese verbs and phonology of the Dung dialet of Moken.

When the prodemocracy uprising was finally crushed, there was a muted international response. The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Germany suspended bilateral aid. But there was no pronounced outcry, certainly not from the general public, in Europe or in North America.