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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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Gendered Cosmology, Landscape and Species-Inclusive Community in Yunnan’s Tibeto-Burman Origin Myths
International Quarterly for Asian StudiesThis 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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‘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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, 1994 This paper aims to discuss the development of garamaticalted verbs (GV henceforth) of Hayu, one of the Tibeto-Burman languages that belong to the Bodic branch (Michailovsky 1988), from the viewpoint of current grammaticalization theories (e.g.
Park, Insun
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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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Discussion note: more on “Kamarupan”
, 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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, 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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Genetic structure and forensic characteristics of Tibeto-Burman-speaking Ü-Tsang and Kham Tibetan Highlanders revealed by 27 Y-chromosomal STRs. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 He G +9 more
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Differential Case Marking in Bodo
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2018 Bodo exhibits differential case marking for its subject and object arguments. In Bodo, subject marking is obligatory with inanimate subjects of stative verbs and animate subjects of dynamic verbs.
Pauthang Haokip, Daimalu Brahma
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