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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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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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Relative clause structures in the Rawang language [PDF]

, 2010
This paper discusses the types of relative clause and noun complement structures found in the Rawang language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, as well as their origin and uses, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring texts.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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‘Ergative’ Marking in Tibeto-Burman

Senri Ethnological Studies, 1995
This paper presents the first results of a comprehensive project on comparative Tibeto-Burman (TB) morpho-syntax. Data on morphological forms and typological patterns were collected from one hundred fifty-one languages and dialects in the TB family. For this paper the data were surveyed for nominal 'ergative' or agentive case marking (postpositions ...
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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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Caritive expression in Suansu

Himalayan Linguistics
This contribution describes caritive expressions in Suansu, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Manipur, North-East India. Two distinct morphosyntactic caritive constructions can be identified in Suansu: the first, semantically restricted to ...
Jessica Katiuscia Ivani
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Typology of Sinitic (Chinese)

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Sinitic, often referred to simply as ‘Chinese’, is a well-differentiated major branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, further divided into ten commonly recognized groups (Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Gan, Xiang, Hui, Hakka, Yue, Min, and Pinghua), identified mainly on
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Wen Lu
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Preliminary Phonology of Rera, a Tangsa Variety of Northeast india

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2018
This paper provides a synchronic phonological analysis of the Rera language, a Tangsa language of the Northern Naga subgroup of Tibeto-Burman. It is spoken by approximately 2,000 people in Northeast India.
Dipyoti Goswami
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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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Language Shift and Endangerment of Mising, a Tani Language in Northeast India

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
This study presents a qualitative evaluation of the endangerment level of Mising (ISO 639-3: mrg), a Tibeto-Burman language of the Tani branch, spoken predominantly in the Upper Assam region and parts of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India.
Doley, Normoda, Mittal,Anurag
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