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On nominal relational morphology in Tibeto-Burman
, 2010 For this paper, 170 Tibeto-Burman languages were surveyed for nominal ease marking (adpositions), in an attempt to determine ifit would be possible to reeonstruet any ease markers to Proto· Tibeto-Burman, and in so doing leam more about the nature of the
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Middle voice marking in Tibeto-Burman
, 2010 Middle voice marking is very rarely recognized as such in the grammars written on Tibeto-Burman languages. It is often simply treated as a normal direct reflexive or as an intransitivizer.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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, 2010 Two problems cloud our understanding of subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman. One is the lack of consistent and clear standards and principles for subgrouping.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Proto-Tibeto-Burman *r in Tiddim Chin and Lushai
, 1979 Tiddim Chin (TC) and Lushai (L), both of the Kuki-Chin-Naga (K-N) subgroup of Tibeto-Burman (TB), are similar enough phonologically that pairs of cognate words are often easy to find.
Solnit, David B.
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Leg' in southeastern Chinese dialects and Tibeto-Burman root *pey 'leg'
, 1987 In his recent monograph God and the Sino-Tibetan Copula . . . Matisoff (1985) presented etymologies for the following Tibeto-Burman roots: *r-pay 'spleen'; *r-may 'tail'; *-ley 'tongue"; and *pey 'leg'.Published ...
Bauer, Robert S.
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, 1975 The intent of this paper is to take a new look at a classical problem in comparative Tibeto-Burman linguistics. The purposes are both descriptive and historicals descriptive in the first instance, because the evidence from glen Chin suggests very ...
Lehman, F. K.
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New perspectives on evidentials: a view from Tibeto-Burman
, 2007 Evidentiality is a grammatical category which has source of information as its primary meaning — whether the narrator actually saw what is being described, or made inferences about it based on some evidence, or was told about it, and so on ...
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The linguistic position of Tani (Mirish) in Tibeto-Burman: a lexical assessment
, 1993 The obscure Tani (Mirish, Mishingish) languages of southern Tibet and Arunachal Pradesh have only recently begun to receive the attention they deserve (Chhangte 1990, 1992; Sun 1993, 1994).
Sun, Jackson T.-S.
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Tibeto-Burman subgroups and historical grammar [PDF]
, 2011 Several distinct strains of thought on subgrouping, presented in memory of David Watters and Michael Noonan, are united by a golden thread. Tamangic consists of Tamangish and maybe something else, just as Shafer would have wanted it.
van Driem, George
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Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionIntroductionThe Tujia ethnic group, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman linguistic family, predominantly resides in the mountainous regions of central and southern China.
Chong Chen +10 more
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