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Review of Zangmianyu Yuyin He Cihui "Tibeto-Burman phonology and lexicon"
, 1992 China, the Utheimat of the great Sino-Tibetan linguistic family, boasts more than forty Tibeto-Burman languages, some of which have been identified only recently.
Sun, Jackson T.-S.
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On the category of causative verbs in Tibeto-Burman languages
, 1999 The category of causation exists in the majority of Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages, but its importance is not the same in each language. In some languages, the causative category occupies an important position in its grammatical system, with its causative ...
Sun, Hongkai
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, 2010 The Qiang language is spoken by about 70,000 (out of 200,000) Qiang people, plus 50,000 people classified as Tibetan by the Chinese government. Most Qiang speakers live in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture on the eastern edge of the Tibetan ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Review of "Das Märchen vom Prinzen Čobzaṅ" [PDF]
, 1986 The volume under review is the sixth in a series on the oral literature of Tibet. Earlier volumes dealt with traditional narrative in central and eastern Tibet, in Amdo and Trayap, among the herdsmen of western Tibet, and, as volume 3 in the series ...
Sprigg, R. K.
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A Phonological Comparison of Gamale, Sheram and Ghusbang – Three Kham Varieties [PDF]
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017 This paper compares the phonologies of Gamāle, Sheram and Ghusbāng, three closely related southern varieties of Khām. The vowel and consonant inventories, suprasegmentals and phonotactics of each variety is described in turn, after which the ...
Christopher P. Wilde
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Hierarchical person marking in Rawang [PDF]
, 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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Emergent word tone in Kham: a Tibeto-Burman halfway house
, 1985 The Tibeto-Burman languages of Southeast Asia have long been characterized as solidly monosyllabic. And rightly so. Words, phrases, and sentences consisted of phonologically discreet monosyllabic morphemes marching along to the cadence of one tone per ...
Watters, David E.
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Syntactic aspects of nominalization in five Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayan area
, 2008 The goal of this paper is to describe some of the syntactic structures that are created through nominalization processes in Himalayan Tibeto-Burman languages and the relationships between those structures. These include both structures involving the
Coupe, Alexander R. +4 more
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Causes and effects of Substratum, Superstratum and Adstratum influence, with reference to Tibeto-Burman languages [PDF]
, 2010 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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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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