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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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