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Analysis and Evaluation of Tibeto-Burman Population from Northeast India: An Anthropometric Study
Objective: To analyse the facial proportions of the Indian population belonging to the Tibeto-Burman population from Northeast India. Materials and Methods: An anthropometric cross-sectional cohort study was conducted on Indian population enrolling ...
Uday Kiran Uppada +2 more
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A Phonological Comparison of Gamale, Sheram and Ghusbang – Three Kham Varieties [PDF]
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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The copula and existential verbs in Qiang [PDF]
This paper discusses the copula and existential verb constructions in Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Sichuan ...
Huang, Chenglong, LaPolla, Randy J.
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Abstract A caste is one of the conventional four social strata into which Hindu society seperates its members. The scriptures from ancient India make reference to it. The four classes are the Brahmins (priestly people), the Kshatriyas (rulers, administrators, and warriors; also known as Rajanyas), the Vaishyas (artisans, merchants, businessmen, and ...
Md Nurul Momen, Md Abu Shahen
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The inclusive-exclusive distinction in Tibeto-Burman languages [PDF]
A survey of 170 Tibeto-Burman languages showed 69 with a distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person plural pronouns, 18 of which also show inclusive- exclusive in Idual.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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An Inventory of Tibetan Sound Laws. [PDF]
Scholars of Indo-European historical linguistics have long found it convenient to refer to well known sound changes by the name of the researcher who first noticed the correspondences the sound change accounts for.
Hill, Nathan W.
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Anti-ergative' marking in Tibeto-Burman
Using arguments based on the data on verb agreement (pronominalization) in Tibeto-Burman, LaPolla 1989 (see also LaPolla 1992) argues that Proto-Tibeto-Burman should be reconstructed as a language with no inflectional morphology. In that paper it is argued that the Proto-Tibeto- Burman system of grammatical relations1 was closer to the typical 'role ...
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Dimasa is a Tibeto-Burman language mostly spoken in Dima Hasao and Cachar districts of Assam and Dimapur district of Nagaland. Most Dimasa roots are monosyllabic, but due to the highly agglutinating feature of them, multimorphemic words are employed more
Aleendra Brahma
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On the change to verb-medial word order in proto-Chinese : evidence from Tibeto-Burman [PDF]
In attempting to reconstruct the morphosyntax of Proto-Sino-Tibetan, one of the most basic questions to be answered is what was the unmarked word order of the proto-language?
LaPolla, Randy J.
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'Transitivity harmony' in the Rawang language of Northern Myanmar [PDF]
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 J.
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