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Nominalization in Rawang [PDF]

, 2010
This paper discusses the various forms, origins, and uses of nominalization in the Rawang (Rvwàng) language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Some Tibeto-Burman Sound Changes

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2014
Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1975), pp.
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On the utility of the concepts of markedness and prototypes in understanding the development of morphological systems [PDF]

, 2010
In attempting to understand the history of the morphology of a language or group of languages, we occasionally face a problem of isomorphy, where two or more semantic categories evince the same formal marking.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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SOME ASPECTS OF FORMING THE POPULATION OF EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA IN ANCIENT TIMES

RUDN Journal of World History, 2016
Using anthropological materials as historical sources to show the main problems of the ethnogenesis of the peoples of East and Central Asia makes it possible to understand the important and complex issues as the role of Mongolian, Chinese, Turkic ...
E B Barinova
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The metaphorical extension of classifiers in TawrãMishmi: an exploration

Energeia
Many languages make use of a morphosyntactic system that imposes a classification on their nominal lexicon. While research on nominal classification that the semantics of the morphemes used in such classification systems is often shaped by paradigmatic ...
Rolf Hotz
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Copula constructions in Rawang [PDF]

, 2010
This paper discusses the various uses of the copula in the Rawang language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, plus other types of copula like-constructions, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan?

Linguistic Discovery, 2015
Certain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013).
Frenando Zúñiga
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Minority languages of China [PDF]

, 2010
This chapter looks at language endangerment in the People's Republic of China, focusing on three of the main factors that influence language maintenance in China today: increased contact due to population movements and changes in the economy; the ...
LaPolla, Randy J., Poa, Dory
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Tonal Variation in Pyen

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2019
Several studies on the Tibeto-Burman Ngwi (Lolo) language family describe tone behavior in the framework of tonogenesis/historical reconstruction among the different languages, but synchronic tonal analyses are rare or are lacking in specifics.
Christina Scotte Hornéy
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Gendered Cosmology, Landscape and Species-Inclusive Community in Yunnan’s Tibeto-Burman Origin Myths

International Quarterly for Asian Studies
This paper examines gender- and species-inclusive notions of community as reflected in the origin myths, animistic beliefs and practices of a few Tibeto-Burman minorities in the uplands of China’s southwestern province of Yunnan. Among these minorities,
Tommaso Previato
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