University of Oregon, 2011. — xxxix + 729 p. Kurtöp is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 15,000 people in Northeastern Bhutan. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language, based on extensive fieldwork and community-driven language documentation in Bhutan. When possible, analyses are presented in typological and historical/comparative...
Australian Catholic University, 2017. — 98 p. In this thesis, I investigate the word class system in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language from central Bhutan. Word classes form a fundamental part of basic linguistic analysis, as tasks like writing phrase structure rules or positing derivational affixes require assumptions about how words in a language are organised. Recent work...
The University of Sydney, 2016. — 162 p. The tonogenetic model (Haudricourt 1954; Matisoff 1970; Mazaudon 1977; Thurgood 2002) is well attested in the tonogenetic literature. The model predicts the pathways through which tone enters a language. As part of this mode, in onset position, voiceless consonants condition a high pitch and voiced consonants condition a low pitch. The...
Australian National University, 2017. — 128 p. This thesis investigates the synchronic and diachronic relationship of the verbal suffix -na to the copula na in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language of central Bhutan. I discuss the formal and functional properties of each to demonstrate that the suffix -na originates in the structural reanalysis of the copula na. Previous research...
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