This selection of lectures by Professor Hla Pe, who has published widely in the fields of Burmese language and literature, and cultural studies, provides an insight into Burmese literature, culture, beliefs and way of life through the authors own personal life and career. The lectures are divided into six parts: Literature, Historiography, Scholarship, Language, Life, and Buddhism.

This book provides backgrounds of Burmese phonetics, phonology, and linguistics.

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.

The articles cover various sub-disciplines within linguistics which will be of general interest to a broad constituency of linguists, including phonology, phonetics, reflexives, morphosyntax, grammaticalisation, the verbal tense-mode-aspect system and Old Burmese (the language of 11-13th Century inscriptions.)