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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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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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Conference report - The 5th Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium & The 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium

, 2011
The 5th Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium and the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium were held at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, 1-5 September 2010. The efforts of convener Dr.
Nishida, Fuminobu
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Hierarchical person marking in Rawang

, 2010
Rawang (Rvwàng) is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the far north of Myanmar (Burma), and is closely related to the Dulong language spoken in China.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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The evolution of a Tibeto-Burman pronominal verb morphology: a case-study from Kham (Nepal)

, 1975
Kham is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dhaulagiri and Rapti Zones of west-central Nepal by an estimated 30 or 40 thousand so-called "Magars" of the four northern subtribes--the Bhuda, Gharti, Pun, and Rokha.
Watters, David E.
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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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Sino-Tibetan languages

, 2010
The Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family includes the Sinitic languages (what for political reasons are known as Chinese ‘dialects’) and the 200 to 300 Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Pronominal verb morphology in Tibeto-Burman

, 1974
The Most commonly proferred typological evaluation of Tibeto-Durman (T-h) as a language family characterizes it as consisting of monosyllabic roots strung together into higher syntactic organizations in an analytic manner, there being little if any ...
Bauman, Jim
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'Transitivity harmony' in the Rawang language of Northern Myanmar [PDF]

, 2010
Rawang [...] is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by people who live in the far north of Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma), particularly along the Mae Hka ('Nmai Hka) and Maeli Hka (Mali Hka) river valleys; population unknown, although Ethnologue gives 100 ...
LaPolla, Randy, LaPolla, Randy J.
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Voiceless Nasal Sounds in Three Tibeto-Burman Languages

, 2018
Voiceless Nasal Sounds in Three Tibeto-Burman Languages : This paper focuses on two types of voiceless nasal sounds in Xumi, a Tibeto-Burman language: (1) the voiceless aspirated nasals /m̥/ [m̥h̃] and /n̥/ [n̥h̃]; and (2) the voiceless nasal glottal ...
Chirkova, Katia
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