Handbook Of Proto Tibeto Burman
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Handbook Of Proto Tibeto Burman
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Author : James A. Matisoff
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Handbook Of Proto Tibeto Burman
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Author : James Alan Matisoff
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2003-10-20
Handbook Of Proto Tibeto Burman written by James Alan Matisoff and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-20 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This 800-page volume is a clear and readable presentation of the current state of research on the history of the Tibeto-Burman (TB) language family, a typologically diverse group of over 250 languages spoken in Southern China, the Himalayas, NE India, and peninsular Southeast Asia. The TB languages are the only proven relatives of Chinese, with which they form the great Sino-Tibetan family. The exposition is systematic, treating the reconstruction of all the elements of the TB proto-syllable in turn, including initial consonants (Ch. III), prefixes (Ch. IV), monophthongal and diphthongal rhymes (Ch. V), final nasals (Ch. VII), final stops (Ch. VIII), final liquids (Ch. IX), root-final *-s (Ch. X), suffixes (Ch. XI). Particular attention is paid to variational phenomena at all historical levels (e.g. Ch. XII "Allofamic variation in rhymes"). This Handbook builds on the best previous scholarship, and adds up-to-date material that has accumulated over the past 30 years. It contains reconstructions of over a thousand Tibeto-Burman roots, as well as suggested comparisons with several hundred Chinese etyma. It is liberally indexed and cross-referenced for maximum accessibility and internal consistency. Emphasis is placed on the special theoretical issues involved in historical reconstruction in the East/Southeast Asian linguistic area.
The Oxford Handbook Of Chinese Linguistics
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Author : William S.-Y. Wang
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Release Date : 2015
The Oxford Handbook Of Chinese Linguistics written by William S.-Y. Wang and has been published by Oxford Handbooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.
The Tibeto Burman Reproductive System
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Author : James A. Matisoff
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008-11-18
The Tibeto Burman Reproductive System written by James A. Matisoff and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This pioneering book is the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. It presents nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with discussions of possible Chinese cognates. Special attention is paid to patterns of semantic associations between the reproductive system and other areas of the lexicon.
Loanwords In The World S Languages
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Author : Martin Haspelmath
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009
Loanwords In The World S Languages written by Martin Haspelmath and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.
The Historical Phonology Of Tibetan Burmese And Chinese
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Author : Nathan W. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-08
The Historical Phonology Of Tibetan Burmese And Chinese written by Nathan W. Hill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-08 with Foreign Language Study categories.
An original new perspective on the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, with a particular focus on their phonological development.
Trans Himalayan Linguistics
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Author : Thomas Owen-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-12-12
Trans Himalayan Linguistics written by Thomas Owen-Smith and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia's heart, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. Historical developments and relationships between the region's languages also remain poorly understood. This book brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region. The volume arises from papers given and topics discussed at the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium in London in 2010. Most papers focus on Tibeto-Burman languages. These include topics relating to individual - mostly small and endangered - languages, such as Tilung, Shumcho, Rengmitca, Yongning Na and Tshangla; comparative research on the Tibetic, East Bodish and Tamangic language groups; and several papers whose scope covers the whole language family. The remaining paper deals with the origins of Burushaski, whose genetic affiliation remains uncertain. This book will be of special interest to scholars of Tibeto-Burman, and historical as well as general linguists.
Medieval Tibeto Burman Languages Iv
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Author : Nathan Hill
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-06-22
Medieval Tibeto Burman Languages Iv written by Nathan Hill and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model.
The Languages And Linguistics Of Mainland Southeast Asia
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Author : Paul Sidwell
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-08-23
The Languages And Linguistics Of Mainland Southeast Asia written by Paul Sidwell and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-23 with History categories.
The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.
Functional Historical Approaches To Explanation
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Author : Tim Thornes
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2013-07-25
Functional Historical Approaches To Explanation written by Tim Thornes and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas — southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All of the papers appeal, in one way or another, to functional-historical approaches to explanation. Behind this appeal lies an assumption that languages are selective in their development in ways that are dependent upon the communicative tasks to which they are put. As such, language function accounts for both variation and historical development over time.