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Chantyal Discourses [HL Archive 2]
Himalayan Linguistics, 2005 The Chantyal people are a relatively small ethnic group, numbering no more than 10,000. They can be divided into two groups, the Myagdi Chantyal and the Baglung Chantyal, named for the districts they inhabit within the Dhaulagiri Zone of central Nepal ...
Michael Noonan
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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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Classical Newar verbal morphology and grammaticalization in Classical and modern Newar
Himalayan Linguistics, 2005 The label "Classic Newari" was first used by the scholar Hans Jorgenson to refer to a collection of late XVIIth century manuscripts consisting mainly of narrative texts.
Tej Ratna Kansākār
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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 ...
LaPolla, Randy J. +1 more
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Plural marking in Dolpo Tibetan: A preliminary investigation [HL FR 1]
Himalayan Linguistics, 2011 There are three pluralizing strategies in Dolpo Tibetan (DT)2 — one for personal pronouns, an- other for animate nouns, and a third for inanimate nouns.
Kevin Kopp
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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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Himalayan LinguisticsThis paper presents a comprehensive analysis of reduplication in Khiamniungan, a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Northeast India and parts of Myanmar. Reduplication in Khiamniungan is common across word classes.
Keen Thaam
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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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The Dual Formative *tsi in Tibeto-Burman Languages
Himalayan LinguisticsA pronominal dual formative derivable from *tsi, *ntsi, or *tsiŋ is attested sufficiently broadly across the Tibeto-Burman languages to require that these be reconstructed to the proto-language.
Scott DeLancey
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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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