Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale 44(2), July 2015. — p. 1-29. This report presents a phonological sketch of Duoxu (/do³³-ɕu³³-na³¹/, Duōxù 多续 or Duōxū 多须 in Mandarin Chinese), a little-known and virtually undescribed Tibeto-Burman language, spoken in Mianning county (冕宁县), which is located in the Liángshān Yí Autonomous Prefecture (凉山彝族自治州) in Sìchuān province (四川省) in the...
Taipei: Academia Sinica. Language and Linguistics, 2012, 13(1), 133–170 p.
In this paper, I study the empirical validity of the hypothesis of “Qiangic” as a subgroup of Sino-Tibetan, that is, the hypothesis of a common origin of thirteen little-studied languages of South-West China. This study is based on ongoing work on four Qiangic languages spoken in one locality (Muli...
La Trobe University, 2014. — xix + 626 p. This thesis is a descriptive grammar of the Wǎdū speech variety of Pǔmǐ, a Tibeto-Burman language of the Qiangic branch spoken on the border of Yúnnán and Sìchuān provinces in Southwest China. It is based on a large corpus of primary data collected during two fieldwork trips in 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 by the author. The thesis presents a...
Brill, 2014. — 405 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 14; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 14). A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pǔmǐ Nationality and the Zàng Nationality (in Mùlǐ, Sichuan) in southwest China. Prinmi belongs to the Qiangic branch and is closely related to the extinct language of...
Taipei: Academia Sinica. Language and Linguistics, 2001, 2(2), 63–110 p.
In the Qiang language, the Southern dialects (SQ) exploit tones to make lexical distinctions, while the Northern dialects (NQ) lack tonal phenomena. There are also a few transitional dialects in which tones distinguish a few minimal pairs; each pair includes at least one borrowing from Chinese. Attempts...
Paris: Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale, Vol. 36 2, 2007. — 147-186 pp.
Examining vowel harmony processes at work in Yadu Qiang reveals the smallest set of features needed to account for vowel oppositions, hence vowel structure. Arguments are evaluated for binarity/unarity of features, and the roles of marginal and disappearing contrasts. A minimal set of features that...
A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics. — Berkeley: University of California, 1999. — xi; 438 p. This purpose of this dissertation is to discuss the phonological and lexical relationships among the dialects and sub-dialects of the Qiang (Chiang, Ch'iang) language, an important language of the...
Taipei: Academia Sinica. Language and Linguistics, 2006, 7.4, 731-754 p.
Northern Qiang vowel systems have been described with eight to nine monophthongs, which may be lengthened, rhotacized, or (non-phonemically) nasalized. This paper presents (morpho-)phonological evidence for adding the category of pharyngealization for one variety of Qiang. In addition, an acoustic analysis...
Ph.D.Thesis. — University of Oregon, 2024. — 456 p. This dissertation is a description and analysis of the phonology and morphosyntax of Queyu (Qiangic < Tibeto-Burman, ISO 639: qvy). Queyu is spoken in Western Sichuan of China, the region recognized as the Ethnic Corridor with frequent interactions among different ethnic groups in history and boasts an abundance of ethnic and...
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong, 2004. — xx; 341 p.
黃成龍 羌語蒲溪話參考語法。香港城市大學，中文、翻譯及語言學系，哲學博士學位。
This thesis provides a comprehensive and in-depth description and typological analysis of the Puxi variety of Qiang. The investigation of this dissertation is a...
Handout for PhD oral examination. — Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong, 2004. — 21 p.
This presentation outlines my research, which is an attempt to produce a lasting record of a dying language, the Puxi variety of the Qiang language. Beyond cultural preservation, this research provides empirical data for comparative research and the reconstruction of Proto-Qiang and...
Taipei: Academia Sinica, 2005. — 16 p. International Course and Conference on RRG.
The Qiang language reflects a basic Aktionsart dichotomy in the classification of stative and active verbs, the form of verbs directly reflects the elements of the lexical decomposition. Generally, State or activity is the basic form of the verb, which becomes an achievement or accomplishment...
Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. — 18, 445 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 31). This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (one of the...
La Trobe University, 2023. — 753 p. Namuyi Khatho is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Qiang group, spoken by approximately 5,000 people on the eastern border of the Tibetan plateau. This thesis is the first detailed linguistic investigation of the language. It is mainly based on data collected during two field trips between 2014 and 2016. This descriptive grammar gives an...
Brill, 2015. — 452 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 15). In A Grammar of Guìqióng, Jiāng Lì describes the grammar of Guìqióng, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in Kāngdìng county, China. Guìqióng has a lot to offer in its phonology, verbal and nominal morphology, syntax and glossary, distinguishing itself...
University of California, 2017. — 64 p. This thesis is a description of suprasegmental phenomena in Yonghe Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Western Sichuan, China. The analysis, based on original data from fieldwork, presents Yonghe as having an obligatory word-level accent overlaying a privative /L/ vs. Ø tonal contrast. The thesis includes a discussion of issues of...
University of California, 2021. — 397 p. This dissertation presents the verbal morphology of the Yonghe variety of Qiang through the lens of Radical Construction Grammar. Yonghe Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in Yonghe Township, Mao County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China. Chapter 1 (Context) provides background information on...
Pre-Publication draft. — Indiana University. — 53 p.
Yonghe, a variety of Qiang (Tibeto-Burman, China) has never been described in the literature. This paper is the first publication specifically about the Yonghe variety. This variety is interesting in that it has a rather simplified segmental phonology, but has not undergone tonogenesis. This paper also appends a lexicon which...
University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Linguistics, 2015. — 11 p.
This short paper will examine of a previously undescribed Rmaic language variety, Heihu, on the basis of fresh data and original fieldwork. There has previously been a lack of consensus as to the position of Heihu variety within the family. In this paper, a morphological and phonological...
Taipei: Academia Sinica. Language and Linguistics, 2016, 7(3), 351–381 p.
Dialectology in the Qiang languages is still an underdeveloped field of study. Previous accounts of Qiang varieties have over simplistically described all varieties as belonging to one of two groups, Northern Qiang and Southern Qiang, based on broad typological features. This article demonstrates that...
Indiana University. — 11 p.
Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 110,000 people in the mountainous region of northwest Sichuan, China. The data for this analysis comes from a descriptive grammar (LaPolla & Huang, 2003) and an article on the vowel system by (Evans & Huang, 2007). The Yadu
dialect of Qiang has a complex system of vowel harmony in which...
Taipei: Academia Sinica. Journal of Taiwanese Languages and Literature 2003, 1(1), 227–242 p.
This paper provides a critical review of the analysis of Northern Qiang phonology (Mawo dialect), as presented in two major recent publications on Qiang linguistics. A number of problematic areas will be discussed, including the status of the glides, the vowel e, and certain types of...
University of California – Berkeley, 2012. — 260 p. This is a reconstruction of Proto-Ersuic, the ancestor language of Lizu, Tosu, and Ersu, three closely related languages spoken in southwestern Sichuan which are generally considered to be part of the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman. To date, no in-depth historical work has been carried out on these languages. Approximately...
A thesis submitted to The School of Arts and Social Sciences in fulfillment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the discipline of Linguistics — James Cook University, The Cairns Institute, 2013. — xlvi, 800 p.
This study is a reference grammar of Ersu, which is one of the diverse languages spoken in "Tibetan-Yi Corridor" ( 藏彝走廊 ), a historical and ethnic term coined by Fei...
A Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Chinese Studies. — National University of Singapore, 2016. — xxix; 671 p.
This dissertation aims at describing the Longxi (龙溪) variety of Qiang (羌), spoken in China. In this chapter, I will give an overview of Longxi Township (§1.1). In the following sections, I will describe ethnicity (§1.2), Qiang people...
Из серии "366 разговорных фраз на языках 55 национальных меньшинств Китая". С переводом на китайский, английский, русский и японский языки. — Пекин: Изд-во социальной и научно-технической документации, 2014. — 191 с. — ISBN 978-7-5097-5365-1. Сейчас только мало людей из нацменьшинств умеет говорить, понимать, использовать свой национальный язык. А большинство из этих людей уже...
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