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Discussion note: more on “Kamarupan” [PDF]
, 2013 "Kamarupan” is the name that Jim Matisoff bestowed on a somewhat scattered and certainly disparate group of Tibeto-Burman languages. It includes the Tibeto Burman languages that are spoken in northeast India and others from adjacent regions.
Burling, Robbins
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The paternal genetic structure of Jingpo and Dai in southwest China
Annals of Human Biology, 2019 Yunnan province harbours substantial genetic, cultural and linguistic diversity, with the largest number of Aborigines in China, but the relationship among these Aborigines remains enigmatic.
Bingying Xu +5 more
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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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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 metaphorical extension of classifiers in TawrãMishmi: an exploration
EnergeiaMany 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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'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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‘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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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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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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Chhitkul-Rakchham (Himachal Pradesh, India) — Language Snapshot
Language Documentation and Description, 2019 Chhitkul-Rakchham is a Tibeto-Burman (hereafter TB) language of the West-Himalayish subgroup spoken in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, northern India. In the existing literature it is referenced as Chitkuli, a name based on one of the villages (
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