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Emergent word tone in Kham: a Tibeto-Burman halfway house [PDF]

, 1985
The Tibeto-Burman languages of Southeast Asia have long been characterized as solidly monosyllabic. And rightly so. Words, phrases, and sentences consisted of phonologically discreet monosyllabic morphemes marching along to the cadence of one tone per ...
Watters, David E.
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Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies

Developmental Science, Volume 27, Issue 5, September 2024.
Abstract Recent decades have seen a rapid acceleration in global participation in formal education, due to worldwide initiatives aimed to provide school access to all children. Research in high income countries has shown that school quality indicators have a significant, positive impact on numeracy and literacy—skills required to participate in the ...
Bruce S. Rawlings, Helen Elizabeth Davis, Adote Anum, Oskar Burger, Lydia Chen, Juliet Carolina Castro Morales, Natalia Dutra, Ardain Dzabatou, Vivian Dzokoto, Alejandro Erut, Frankie T. K. Fong, Sabrina Ghelardi, Micah Goldwater, Gordon Ingram, Emily Messer, Jessica Kingsford, Sheina Lew‐Levy, Kimberley Mendez, Morgan Newhouse, Mark Nielsen, Gairan Pamei, Sarah Pope‐Caldwell, Karlos Ramos, Luis Emilio Echeverria Rojas, Renan A. C. dos Santos, Lara G. S. Silveira, Julia Watzek, Ciara Wirth, Cristine H. Legare   +28 more
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Syntactic aspects of nominalization in five Tibeto-Burman languages of the Himalayan area [PDF]

, 2008
The goal of this paper is to describe some of the syntactic structures that are created through nominalization processes in Himalayan Tibeto-Burman languages and the relationships between those structures. These include both structures involving the
Coupe, Alexander R., Bartee, Ellen, Hildebrandt, Kristine, Genetti, Carol, Lin, You-Jing   +4 more
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Rokdung (Sikkim, India) - Language Snapshot

Language Documentation and Description, 2020
Rokdung is the language of a small clan subdivision of the Rai community, mostly living in the village of Rolep, East Sikkim district, Sikkim, India.
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Human‐associated genetic landscape of walnuts in the Himalaya: implications for conservation and utilization

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 30, Issue 4, April 2024.
Abstract Aims A comprehensive understanding of the genetic variation of walnuts (Juglans regia and J. sigillata) in the Himalaya and its potential drivers are essential for the conservation and sustainable utilization of these plant genetic resources.
Li‐Jun Yan, Peng‐Zhen Fan, Moses C. Wambulwa, Hai‐Ling Qi, Ying Chen, Zeng‐Yuan Wu, Richard I. Milne, Raees Khan, Ya‐Huang Luo, Lian‐Ming Gao, Shi‐Kang Shen, Irfan Rashid, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Debabrata Maity, De‐Zhu Li, Jie Liu   +15 more
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Ethnolinguistic associations and genetic diversity of rice landraces in Nagaland, India

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 2, Page 452-469, March 2024.
Preserving and conserving crop landraces, tended by indigenous farming communities, is crucial for future food security. This research focused on rice landrace diversity in the north‐eastern Himalayan region of Nagaland, India, where Naga communities cultivate rice according to their dietary and cultural preferences. Rice diversity is closely linked to
Somnath Roy, Bhaskar Chandra Patra, Jitendra Kumar, Puranjay Sar, Uma Shankar Jogi, Zenwang Konyak, Amrita Banerjee, Nabaneeta Basak, Nimai Prasad Mandal, Kailash Chander Bansal   +9 more
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Conference report - The 5th Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium & The 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium [PDF]

, 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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The Loss of Proto-Tibeto-Burman Final Velars in Standard Jinghpaw

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2018
The aim of this paper is two-fold: to show that the standard dialect of Jinghpaw has irregularly lost several final velars of Proto-Tibeto-Burman based on comparative evidence; and to attempt to show that the lost velars are reconstructable for an ...
Keita Kurabe
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Word Formation in Dimasa

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2022
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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