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Problems of methodology and explanation in word order universals research [PDF]

, 2010
Ever since the publication of Greenberg 1963, word order typologists have attempted to formulate and refine implicational universals of word order so as to characterize the restricted distribution of certain word order patterns, and in some cases have ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Phonological Sketch of the Sida Language of Luang Namtha, Laos [PDF]

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2017
This paper describes the phonology of the Sida language, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 3,900 people in Laos and Vietnam. The data presented here are the variety spoken in Luang Namtha province of northwestern Laos, and focuses on a ...
Nathan Badenoch, Hayashi Norihiko
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'Transitivity harmony' in the Rawang language of Northern Myanmar [PDF]

, 2010
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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Introduction: person and evidence in Himalayan languages [PDF]

, 2010
The present volume results from an initiative to foster cooperation between scholars of Himalayan languages in Europe. The initiative was launched five years ago and has brought about a series of annual workshop meetings and individual cooperative ...
Bickel, Balthasar
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An Inventory of Tibetan Sound Laws. [PDF]

, 2011
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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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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Etyma for 'chicken', 'duck', and 'goose' among language phyla in China and Southeast Asia [PDF]

, 2015
This paper considers the history of words for domesticated poultry, including ‘chicken’, ‘goose’, and ‘duck’, in China and mainland Southeast Asia to try to relate associated domestication events with specific language groups.
Alves, Mark J
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Northern Pwo Karen Numeral Classifiers: Semantic Categories and Structures

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2023
Descriptions of the numeral classifier systems of Karenic (Tibeto-Burman) languages are limited to Eastern Kayah (Solnit 1997), Thai Sgaw Karen (Ratanakul 2001), and Kayan (Manson 2010). Thus, this paper aims to expand knowledge about Karenic classifiers
Audra Phillips
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The inclusive-exclusive distinction in Tibeto-Burman languages [PDF]

, 2010
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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Lexical Comparisons between Proto-Kuki-Chin and Jinghpaw: Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans Himalayan

Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 2022
This paper presents a set of lexical correspondences between Jinghpaw and Proto-Kuki-Chin as reconstructed by ...
Scott DeLancey
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