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“Optional” “ergativity” in Tibeto-Burman languages
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2011 The case-marking systems of Tibeto-Burman languages are a long standing problem in both synchronic description and analysis and historical reconstruction.
DeLancey, Scott
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, 2015 The Tibeto-Burman linguistic phylum was identified in 1823. However, the term Tibeto-Burman was subsequently used in two different meanings, one by scholars following Julius von Klaproth's polyphyletic framework and another by scholars operating within ...
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Evidentiality in Darma (Tibeto-Burman)
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2007 This paper outlines the evidentiality system found in Darma, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Uttarakhand, India. The source of information is indicated for four levels: direct evidence, general knowledge, inferential and reported.
Willis, Christina M.
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2017
AbstractA number of Tibeto-Burman languages exhibit morphological ergative alignment, while others clearly do not. In these languages, matters of information structure determine core argument marking. Specifically, both A and S marking may be used to indicate topic, contrastive topic, broad focus, and/or contrastive focus.
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AbstractA number of Tibeto-Burman languages exhibit morphological ergative alignment, while others clearly do not. In these languages, matters of information structure determine core argument marking. Specifically, both A and S marking may be used to indicate topic, contrastive topic, broad focus, and/or contrastive focus.
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1987
This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects.
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This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects.
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A candidate for a Tibeto-Burman innovation
Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 2017Based on a survey of 21 languages chosen to represent the diversity of Sino-Tibetan, this paper proposes that all Sino-Tibetan languages except Chinese have lost a phonological distinction between two Proto-Sino-Tibetan codas, *-q (Old Chinese *-ʔ, dialectally *-k) and *-k (Old Chinese *-k): the two codas merged as *-k in Proto-Tibeto-Burman.
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Etymological notes on Tibeto-Burman
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 1985Benedict, in the Conspectus, notes the existence of comparative evidence for only one case-like particle of clearly PRB provenience, the well-known subordinating (i.e. genitive and relativizing) *-ki or *-gi. He briefly suggests that the lack of other such particles reconstructible for PTB can be taken as an indication that the general category cannot ...
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Questions of method in Chinese-tibeto-burman comparison
Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, 1995It is argued that the reconstructed Tibeto-Burman vocabulary includes an important layer of Chinese loanwords. Some examples are presented.
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Tibeto-Burman languages and classification
2015Tibeto-Burman languages and classification 1REFERENCES 60MAP 2: Tibeto-Burman languages of Kashmir 65MAP 3: Tibeto-Burman languages of Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh 66MAP 4: Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal 67MAP 5: Tibeto-Burman languages of West Bengal, Sikkim and Bhutan 68MAP 6: Tibeto-Burman languages of Arunachal Pradesh, North Assam, North ...
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