Weidert Alfons. Tibeto-Burman Tonology: A Comparative Analysis

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1987. — 531 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 54).This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects. This comparative study of tonology represents a significant contribution not only to the historical-comparative study of Tibeto-Burman, but also to the larger field of linguistic theory, especially now that the subject increasingly begins to be approached along diachronic lines. With this in mind, it is hoped that this work will provoke future research in the field.Explanation of phonetic symbols and diacritics
Introductory remarks and summary of content
Phonation types of chepang
The glottal stop or creaky phonation in Limbu
Tonal comparison of Lolo-Burmese with other tibeto-Burman languages
Is *B/TC-III a reconstructible entity of proto-Tibeto-Burman?
Tone Categories in the north Assam division
Phonation and tone in the Tamang/Gurung/Thalaki nucleus
The development of tone systems in the Karen languages
Phonation and tonology of stopped syllables
Outlook on further tonogenetic investigations
Footnotes
Etymological index