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Classical Southeast Asian Languages: Sanskrit, Pali, Burmese & Tai

Classical Southeast Asian literary traditions such as those built upon the Javanese, Burmese and Tai languages have as a foundation the Indian languages of Pali and Sanskrit.

My work here focuses on mobilizing the wealth of lexical and grammatical information for these languages and to deploy this for a more thorough understanding and translation of the original Indian language texts as well as a deeper understanding of the Southeast Asian literary traditions that derive from them (see A Brief History of Sanskrit-Pedagogy (with an aim to enchancing the effectiveness of self-pedagogical practice)).

Translation of historical, philosophical and literary classics, along with investigation into the origins of local Southeast Asian indigenous literary traditions based upon Pali and Sanskrit is the aim here (see Fernquest, Jon. (2016) The Pali imaginaire of pre-modern Burmese warfare and history (c. 1383-1425)).

Flashcard & Interlinear Translation Workspaces: Automatic Generation

Specifically, towards this end, automatic flashcard generation to acquire lexical depth of knowledge in languages and the creation of interlinear translation workspaces to facilitate translation as a language learning exercise, bring lexically and grammatically rich content to the reader for deeper understanding of the poetic stanzas (Sanskrit: slokas) that populate these classical literary traditions.

Integration of interlinear translation with flashcards is one goal of this project. Grammatical paradigms can be integrated with flashcards as in this Reveal.js framework example here. An interlinear translation workspace can be in plain text format (here) or html format (here) or LaTex/TeX format.

Academic Publications:

Fernquest, J. (2019). “The ‘Salvaging’ of Father Favali (1985): A study on the
relationship between ‘violence specialists’ and the state.” [Under submission to
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints]

Fernquest, J. (2018). “State killing, Denial and Cycles of Violence in the Philippines.”
Philippine Sociological Review 66 (Special Issue on Sociology of Justice).

Johnson, D. and Fernquest, J. (2018). “Governing through Killing: The War on Drugs in
the Philippines.” Asian Journal of Law and Society, 1-32, 2018. [Honorable Mention
recognition from the Asia Law & Society Association Distinguished Article Award
Review Committee]

I have published a large number of papers on Burmese history at the School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London:

Fernquest, Jon (2005). “The Flight of Lao War Captives From Burma Back to Laos in
1596: A Comparison of Historical Sources”, SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research,
Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 1-26.

Fernquest, Jon (2005b). “Min-gyi-nyo, the Shan Invasions of Ava (1524-27), and the
Beginnings of Expansionary Warfare in Toungoo Burma: 1486-1539,” SOAS
Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005

Fernquest, Jon (2005c). “Addendum to Min-gyi-nyo, the Shan Invasions of Ava (1524-
27), and the Beginnings of Expansionary Warfare in Toungoo Burma:
1486-1539,” SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 3, No. 2, Autumn 2005

Fernquest, Jon (2006). “Rajadhirat’s Mask of Command: Military Leadership in Burma
(c. 1348-1421)”, SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2006.

Fernquest, Jon (2006b) “Crucible of War: Burma and the Ming in the Tai Frontier Zone
(1382-1454),” SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research, Vol. 4, No. 2, Autumn 2006.3.

Additional Unrelated Publications:

Fernquest, Jon (2005) “Achieving the Lexical Threshold for Academic Reading in
Economics: A Corpus-Based Approach,” GMS International TESOL Conference, Mae
Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, September 16-18, 2005.

Fernquest, Jon (2003) “Review of: McDaniel, Matthew (2003) The Akha Journal of the
Golden Triangle” in the Thailand Human Rights Journal, Volume 1, 2003, Bangkok:
National Human Rights Commission of Thailand, pp. 237-240.