How typology allows for a new analysis of the verb phrase in Burmese [PDF]
International audienceBurmese has been studied by westerner scholars since 18e century. Recent works containing good description of the language (or part of the language) are Allott (1965), Okell (1969), Bernot (1980), Wheatley (1982), Bernot et al (2001)
Vittrant, Alice
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ISLAM, ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM, AND THE BURMESE ROHINGYA CRISIS [PDF]
This article discusses the world’s most oppressed people, the Muslim Rohingya of Burma (Myanmar) through the lens of “state symbologies and critical juncture”.
Woodward, Mark
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Triangulating Horizontal Inequality: Towards Improved Conflict Analysis. [PDF]
Does economic inequality cause civil war? Deviating from individualist measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient, recent studies have found a statistical link between group-level inequalities and conflict onset.
Bormann, NC, Cederman, L-E, Weidmann, N
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Causes and effects of Substratum, Superstratum and Adstratum influence, with reference to Tibeto-Burman languages [PDF]
Language contact has become a major focus of inquiry in historical and typological linguistics in the last twenty years, spurred in a large part by the publication of Thomason & Kaufman (1988), which tried to make sense of a large amount of language ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Old Burmese : Toward the History of Burmese [PDF]
This paper aims to examine the various interpretations of the phonological system of Old Burmese (of Burma, now Myanmar) so far made and propose a conceivable framework of the history of Burmese in the light of our recent knowledge of Burmish languages ...
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The Development of Voicing Rules in Standard Burmese [PDF]
In Modern Standard Burmese (Myanmar) are observed two distinct types of voicing sandhi: (1) in the environment C1aC2, and if both Cl and C2 are any one of /p t t c k s/, both C1 and C2 become voiced, and (2) in the environment where C occurs after ...
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Diplomacy in a provincial setting : the East India companies in seventeenth-century Bengal and Orissa [PDF]
On 22 October 1634, the clerk responsible for keeping the diary drawn up in Batavia Castle (Dagh-Register gehouden in’ t Casteel Batavia) diligently summarized the latest intelligence about trade in the Bay of Bengal.
Meersbergen, Guido van
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Putting the Rafts out to Sea: Talking of Bera Bhashan in Bengal
Bera (raft) bhasan (sending out) is a ritual linking two societies and two landscapes: the maritime and the agrarian. After the monsoon, palm or plantain rafts are placed on the river to placate the gods.
Mukherjee, Rila
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Gold Ash: Contested yet Immortal, The Exceptional Potency of Burmese Alchemy [PDF]
‘Gold ash’ (shway pya), a substance Burmese alchemists produce through a complex process of the combination and burning of metals, is considered by many Burmese as the most potent medical ingredient existing in the country. In this article, I explore the
Coderey, Céline
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Resistancy to the Law Enforcement of (ASEAN) Regional Human Rights Mechanism, What Next? [PDF]
Regional mechanism on the protection of human rights in ASEAN formally has been developedsince 2007 through the adoption of the ASEAN Charter in 2007 and the establishment of the ASEANIntergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) in 2009 ...
Dewi, C. T. (Chloryne)
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