Article. — Journal of Buthan Studies. — 2014. — Volume 31. — p. 43-56 The Kurtöp language is an East Bodish language spoken in Kurtoe Gewog, Lhuntse District, Bhutan. In 1993, there were about 10,000 speakers of Kurtöp. Historically, Kurtöp and its speakers have had close contact with speakers of Bumthang, Nupbi and Kheng languages, nearby languages of central and eastern...
Article. — Language Documentation & Conservation. — 2021. — Volume 15. — p. 551-575 Classic typologies within prosody tend to treat ‘tone’ languages as being diametrically opposed to ‘stress’ languages. However, Hyman (2006) highlights several languages that can have both, including Seneca, Fasu, and Copala Trique. As language documentation advances and our acoustic...
Article. — JSAL. — 2011. — Volume 4. — №1. — p. 43-60 The linguistic encoding of information as being unexpected is referred to as the 'mirative'. Since DeLancey (1997) established mirativity as a cross-linguistic category, the awareness of its presence in languages of the world is growing. This is true also for the languages of South Asia, perhaps most commonly amongst the...
Article. — Tibetan Studies. — 1994. — Volume 2. — p. 545-557 Historical phonology of the Bumthang group of languages of Central Bhutan (Tibeto-Burman), with detailed analysis of their relation to Tibetan, and remarks on Tamang and Dakpa. Unlike Tibetan "dialects" and Dzongkha (the national language of Bhutan), Bumthang does not continue Old Tibetan; instead, with Tamang and...
Article. — 6th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages. — 2018. — p. 83-87 Previous work on tonogenesis in Kurtöp production (Hyslop 2009, Plane 2016) has addressed questions of propagation. They describe patterns whereby environments following more sonorous onsets appear to develop tone prior to less sonorous onsets. Additionally, the production study by Plane...
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