SOAS, University of London, 2021. — 416 p. This thesis investigates the information-structural notion of focus through the morphosyntax of focus structures in Mùwe Ké, a Tibeto-Burman language of Mugu, Nepal with roughly five thousand speakers. The focus structures mainly involve the obligatory focus marking of actors with the otherwise-optional ergative marker -gane and a...
Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000. Volume 6. — Brill, 2002. — xx, 190 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 2/6). This book on the pre-modern Tibeto-Burman languages represents a movement to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics according to the classical Indo-European model. The book contains papers by T. Takeuchi on Old...
Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the Iats, 2003, 10/1. — Brill, 2005. — xiv, 202 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 10/1). 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...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. — 230 p. — ISBN: 0521081750. A comprehensive account of the Sino-Tibetan, a language stock comparable in size and diversification to Indo-European and comprising Chinese, Karen and over a hundred Tibetan-Burman languages. Dr Benedict presents a systematic analysis of the morphology and phonology of the main descendants of the stock,...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 244 р. — (Princeton/Cambridge Studies in Chinese Linguistics, No. 2).
A comprehensive account of the Sino-Tibetan, a language stock comparable in size and diversification to Indo-European and comprising Chinese, Karen and over a hundred Tibetan-Burman languages. Dr Benedict presents a systematic analysis of the morphology and phonology of the...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1997. — 190 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series A 86/Papers in South-East Asian Linguistics 14). David Bradley - Tibeto-Burman languages and classification Anju Saxena - Towards a reconstruction of the Proto West Himalayish agreement system Ross C. Caughley - Semantically related vowel gradation in...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1989. — 336 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series C 104). Prosodic Analysis Prosodic Analysis: a retrospect over four decades - Robins, Robert H. Pre-final focus accents in English: a comparative study - Wells, William H.G. The domain of gemination in Malayalam - Local, John and Simpson, Adrian The velar...
Columbus: Ohio State University, 2008. — xxi; 526 p. East Asian Studies Center. The 20th North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-20) was held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on 25-27 April 2008. NACCL-20 celebrated the twentieth anniversary of this annual conference and the conference’s first return to its birthplace at the Ohio State University....
Columbus: Ohio State University, East Asian Studies Center, 2008. — xviii; pp. 527 - 1075. The 20th North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-20) was held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on 25-27 April 2008. NACCL-20 celebrated the twentieth anniversary of this annual conference and the conference’s first return to its birthplace at the Ohio State...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 334 p. — ISBN10: 0198723792. — ISBN: 978-0198723790. This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While many studies focus principally on Standard Mandarin, this work draws on extensive empirical data from lesser-known languages, and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths about the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. — xiii, 315 p. (Oxford Linguistics) — ISBN: 9780198723790. This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While many studies focus principally on Standard Mandarin, this work draws on extensive empirical data from lesser-known languages, and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths...
贵阳：贵州民族出版社，1991年。— 5；3；6；678页。 — ISBN: 7541202215 This immensely valuable book deals with the phonology, grammar, and vocabulary of Chinese, Yi (Lolo), and Burmese. It is a lengthy work, consisting of more than 530,000 characters. The book's distinctive approach combines the methodology of traditional phonological and historical-comparative linguistic with the insights to be...
Mouton De Gruyter, 2017. — 479 p. — (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 302). — ISBN10: 3110460181, ISBN13: 978-3110460186. This edited volume brings together work on the evidential systems of Tibetan languages. This includes diachronic research, synchronic description of systems in individual Tibetan varieties and papers addressing broader theoretical or...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — 338 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 557). The country of Nepal is home to over one hundred distinct languages from four language families. The current volume provides grammars, glossaries and texts for two of these languages: Kristine A. Hildebrandt's grammar and glossary of Manange, of the...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1982. — 225 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. State-of-the-Art Reports, 14). The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian Massif as well as parts of East Asia and South Asia. Around 60 million people speak Tibeto-Burman languages. The name derives from the...
Institute of Linguistics: Academia Sinica, 2009. — 504 p. — (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series A18). Recent decades have seen considerable advances in the reconstruction of the pronunciation of Old Chinese [OC], the language underlying Chinese texts of the first millennium BCE, and in the reconstruction of Proto-Tibeto-Burman [PTB], the hypothetical ancestor of Tibetan,...
Brill, 2012. — 482 p. — (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 5/13). 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 volume...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — xiv + 374p. The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the appearance of written records, e.g. Latin p- corresponds to English f- (pes, foot; primus, first; plenus, full). Although Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan have long...
Tribhuvan University, 1993. — 9 p.
Tibeto-Burman' is now generally accepted as a designation for a group of genetically related languages within the Sino-Tibetan family. The Sino-Tibetan and in particular the Tibeto-Burman languages, however, still pose many classificatory problems due largely to insufficient linguistic evidence. The complexity of the problems involved can be...
Translated by Alan Thwaits. — V&R unipress, National Taiwan University Press, 2017. — 281 p. (Global East Asia, Vol 7) — ISBN: 9783847006992 (E-Book). And to establish our new framework of study, one of the methods we use is the peripheral approach. But as we are using the notion, “periphery” refers to more than the geographical periphery. The relationship of periphery and...
Routledge, 2019. — 344 p. The Sinitic Languages is the quintessence of Mieczysław Jerzy Künstler’s thirty years of research into the Chinese languages. Originally published in Polish in 2000 as Języki chińskie, this work collected Künstler’s various lectures on the fascinating world of this branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It marked the apogee of linguistic research...
Routledge, 2021. — 284 p. Focusing mainly on classifiers, Numeral Classifiers and Classifier Languages offers a deep investigation of three major classifier languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This book provides detailed discussions well supported by empirical evidence and corpus analyses. Theoretical hypotheses regarding differences and commonalities between numeral...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 628 p. — (Sinitic Languages of China 8). Caijia, [meŋ²¹ni³³ŋoŋ³³] ‘Caijia speech’, is an endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000 speakers in Hezhang and Weining counties in northwest in Guizhou Province in Southwest China. Its sub-classification remains unclear. It was almost four decades ago when the Caijia language was...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 550 p. Caijia, 'Caijia speech', is an endangered language in the Sino-Tibetan family with less than 1000 speakers in Hezhang and Weining counties in northwest in Guizhou Province in Southwest China. Its sub-classification remains unclear. It was almost four decades ago when the Caijia language was officially reported for the first time in 1982 by the...
Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2003. — 805 p. — (University of California publications in linguistics 135). 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...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1997. — 150 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 114). This study was originally prepared for the Seventeenth International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics at the University of Oregon (September 1984), but has been languishing on the back burner for about a decade before being...
S.l., s.a. — 148 p. This study was originally prepared for the 17th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics at the University of Oregon (September 1984), but has been languishing on the back burner for nearly a decade. Although it is the most extensive synchronic and diachronic treatment of the Tibeto-Burman numerals yet attempted, considerations of...
Brill, 1986. — viii, 477 p. — (Cornell Linguistic Contributions 5). This book is a Festschrift volume dedicated to Emeritus Professor Nicholas C. Bodman, by his students, colleagues and friends and consists of a selection of contributions that match his interests in the descriptive, historical and comparative study of Chinese dialects (especially Min dialects) and the fields of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. — 452 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 266). 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...
Helsinki 2021. — 468 p. This dissertation describes Amri Karbi, a language that has not received much attention in the past among linguists. This grammar is the first comprehensive and holistic description of the Amri Karbi language, which is a crucial step for the language community and their self-identity. Amri Karbi, also known as a variety of Karbi or Mikir is a...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 217 p. — (Asian Borderlands). Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia examines the complex interactions between state, ethnic, and linguistic borders in the Himalayas. These case studies from Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal show how people in the Himalayas talk borders into existence, and also how...
Eugene: University of Oregon, 2011. — vi; 261 p. The 23rd North American Conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-23) was organized and hosted by the University of Oregon on June 17-19, 2011. Corpus linguistics Tao Ming and Liang Chen. The ordering of multiple relative clauses modifying the same head NP in Chinese follows information-flow principles Shan Wang, Sophia Lee and...
Eugene: University of Oregon, 2011. — vi; 295 p. The 23rd North American Conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-23) was organized and hosted by the University of Oregon on June 17-19, 2011. Semantics and pragmatics I-Hsuan Chen. The semantic constraints on the VERB + zhĕ nouns in Mandarin Chinese Noah Constant. On the independence of the Mandarin aspectual and contrastive...
London: Routledge, 2003. — 727 p. — (Routledge Language Family Series). — ISBN 0–7007–1129–5. There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2017. — 1049 p. — (Routledge Language Family Series). There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few decades. Now in its second edition and fully...
Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — xvi, 223 p. — (Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse (SCLD), Volume 4) — ISBN: 9789027268112. The Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse book series publishes works of original research on Chinese from a linguistic, cognitive, socio-cultural, or interactional perspective. We welcome contributions based...
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....
Smithfield, Rhode Island: Bryant University, 2009. — vi; 208 p. The 21st North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-21) was held at Bryant University on June 6-8, 2009. A total of 135 proposals were submitted to the conference organizing committee. Out of them seventy were selected for presentation at the conference, which covered a full range of issues in Chinese...
Smithfield, Rhode Island: Bryant University, 2009. — iii; pp. 209 - 600. The 21st North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-21) was held at Bryant University on June 6-8, 2009. A total of 135 proposals were submitted to the conference organizing committee. Out of them seventy were selected for presentation at the conference, which covered a full range of issues in...
Springer, 2017. — 303 p. — (Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics). — ISBN10: 9811061866, 13 978-9811061868. This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by...
Springer, 2017. — 322 p. — (Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics). — ISBN10: 9811061866, 13 978-9811061868. This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by...
Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. — XXVI, 986 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 150). This study presents a comparative approach to a universal theory of Tense, aspect and Mood, combining the methods of comparative and historical linguistics, fieldwork, text linguistics, and philology. The parts of the book discuss and describe (i) the...
Статья. Лингвистический энциклопедический словарь. - М. , 1990. - С. 226-227
Китайско-тибетские языки (сино-тибетские языки) - одна из крупнейших языковых семей мира. Включает св. 100, по другим данным, несколько сотен языков, от племенных до национальных. Общее число говорящих св. 1100 млн. чел. (1989, оценка). По-видимому, некоторые К. -т. я. еще не известны науке, другие...
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