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Author : James A. Matisoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4396727
Author : James A. Matisoff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520098435
Author : Austin Hale
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110825497
No detailed description available for "Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages".
Author : James A. Matisoff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520098718
This pioneering book is the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. It presents nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with discussions of possible Chinese cognates. Special attention is paid to patterns of semantic associations between the reproductive system and other areas of the lexicon.
Author : David E. Watters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781139436083
First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.
Author : Damian Satterthwaite-Phillips
Publisher : Stanford University
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:wv919xj7158
It has been argued that lexicostatistical methods cannot be fruitfully applied to the Tibeto-Burman (or the larger Sino-Tibetan) language family. This dissertation first develops a statistical method for determining linguistic cognates (or sound correspondences) between arbitrarily many languages. This method is then applied to a subset of the Sino-Tibetan languages to infer the correspondences and further develops a method for lexicostatistical analysis for subgrouping those languages. The output of these methods agrees very well with that determined by the traditional comparative method. Furthermore, this method yields both greater resolution of the subgroupings, and provides statistical inference of the confidence in the various groupings.
Author : Martine Vanhove
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290328
This book is the result of a joint project on lexical and semantic typology which gathered together field linguists, semanticists, cognitivists, typologists, and an NLP specialist. These cross-linguistic studies concern semantic shifts at large, both synchronic and diachronic: the outcome of polysemy, heterosemy, or semantic change at the lexical level. The first part presents a comprehensive state of the art of a domain typologists have long been reluctant to deal with. Part two focuses on theoretical and methodological approaches: cognition, construction grammar, graph theory, semantic maps, and data bases. These studies deal with universals and variation across languages, illustrated with numerous examples from different semantic domains and different languages. Part three is dedicated to detailed empirical studies of a large sample of languages in a limited set of semantic fields. It reveals possible universals of semantic association, as well as areal and cultural tendencies.
Author : Päivi Juvonen,Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110377675
The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.
Author : Foong Ha Yap,Karen Grunow-Hårsta,Janick Wrona
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027206770
Research on nominalization, a process that gives rise to referring expressions, has always played a central role in linguistic investigations. Over the years there has also been growing evidence that nominalization constructions often extend to non-referential domains. They participate in noun-modifying expressions (e.g. genitive and relative clauses), subordinate clauses and topic constructions, finite structures with the nominalizers reanalyzed as TAM markers, and stance constructions with evaluative, attitudinal, evidential and epistemic overtones. This volume brings together historical and crosslinguistic evidence from more than 20 different languages representing six different language families spanning the Asian continent and the Pacific and Indian oceans to elucidate the strategies and grammaticalization pathways that give rise to both referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions. This collection highlights the diversity of strategies and at the same time the robust cyclical nature of change within and across languages. The combined diachronic and typological analyses in this volume are particularly valuable for linguistic research on diachronic morphosyntax and linguistic ‘universals’, and are also an important supplementary cross-referencing tool for linguistic investigations of versatile and ubiquitous morphemes in under-documented languages.
Author : Seino van Breugel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004258938
Atong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India and Bangladesh. Seino van Breugel provides a deep and thorough coverage and analysis of all major areas of the grammar, which makes this book of great interest and value to general linguists and typologists as well as area specialists. Alongside an Atong-English dictionary and five fully-glossed Atong texts recorded during extensive fieldwork, this work also provides a sizable ethnolinguistic introduction to the speakers and their culture. Of particular interest is the pragmatic approach taken for the grammatical analysis. Whereas the form of an utterance provides some clue as to its possible meaning, inference is always needed to arrive at the most relevant interpretation within the context in which the utterance occurs. "This is a very important book for South Asian and Sino-Tibetan linguistic scholarship. Of the 200 languages of Northeast India, only a handful have been documented; the present work brings the number of full-scale modern grammars for these languages to six. Thus it represents a unique and extremely valuable contribution." Professor Scott DeLancey University of Oregon "This is a solid academic work which makes a huge contribution to the field. There is no other detailed account of this particular language, and it is highly doubtful that anyone will write something more comprehensive in the future." Dr Willem de Reuse University of North Texas
Author : Bernard Comrie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781136898037
Based on Bernard Comrie's much praised The World's Major Languages, this is a key guide to an important language family. The areas covered include Chinese, Japanese and Sino-Tibetan languages.
Author : Michael Noonan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110802597
Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
Author : Christina Willis Oko
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004409491
A Grammar of Darma provides a comprehensive description of this threatened Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India’s Himalayan region. The description is based on a corpus that includes natural discourse and elicited data. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework.
Author : Anju Saxena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110898873
With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its cultural diversity, and its widespread multilingualism- both the stable and transient kind- the Himalayan region is a treasure trove of empirical data for linguistic research on language typology and universals, historical linguistics, language contact and areal linguistics. Himalayan Languages contains contributions on Himalayan linguistics written by some of the leading experts in the field. The volume is divided into three parts: First, a general overview is given of the linguistic study of Himalayan languages and language communities. The second part offers synchronic studies of individual languages of the region (Indo-Aryan languages Shina and Kalasha, and Tibeto-Burman languages Belhare, Magar, Kinnauri, Classical Tibetan and Thangmi). The papers in the third part of the volume address topics in historical and areal linguistics, with an emphasis on the Tibeto-Burman languages of the region, discussing grammaticalization processes (in Sunwar, Newar, Seke, Tshangla and Bantawa) and the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman.
Author : Tim Thornes,Erik Andvik,Gwendolyn Hyslop,Joana Jansen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271976
Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas — southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All of the papers appeal, in one way or another, to functional-historical approaches to explanation. Behind this appeal lies an assumption that languages are selective in their development in ways that are dependent upon the communicative tasks to which they are put. As such, language function accounts for both variation and historical development over time.
