The Sino Tibetan Languages 1st Edition by Randy J Lapolla,Graham Thurgood ISBN 0415772958 978-0415772952

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ISBN 10: 0415772958 

ISBN 13: 978-0415772952

Author: Randy J. LaPolla, Graham Thurgood 

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, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.

Table of contents:

Volume I: Establishing The Relationships

Part 1. Establishing The Relationships
Chap 1. Languages And Dialects
Chap 2. Where It All Began: Memories Of Robert Shafer And The “Sino-Tibetan Linguistics Project”, Berkeley 1939–1940
Chap 3. Thai, Kadai, And Indonesian: A New Alignment In Southeastern Asia
Chap 4. Classification Of The Sino-Tibetan Languages
Chap 5. Notes On Fang-Kuei Li’s “Languages And Dialects Of China”
Chap 6. Sino-Tibetan: Another Look
Chap 7. On Megalocomparison
Chap 8. Comment On Matisoff’s Comparison Between Greenberg And Benedict
Chap 9. Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Present State And Future Prospects
Chap 10. The “Sal” Languages
Chap 11. On The Evidence For The Relationship Kiranti-Rung
Chap 12. The Linguistic Position Of Tani (Mirish) In Tibeto-Burman: A Lexical Assessment

Part 2. Sino-Tibetan Historical Reconstruction
Chap 13. The Number “A Hundred” In Sino-Tibetan
Chap 14. Concerning The Variation Of Final Consonants In The Word Families Of Tibetan, Kachin And Chinese
Chap 15. Variable Finals In Proto-Sino-Tibetan
Chap 16. A Comparative Study Of The Chinese, Tibetan, And Burmese Vowel Systems

Volume II: Language Contact And Areal Features

Part 1. Language Contact And Areal Features
Chap 17. The Topography Of Certain Phonetic And Morphological Characteristics Of South East Asian Languages
Chap 18. Language Diffusion On The Asian Continent: Problems Of Typological Diversity In Sino-Tibetan
Chap 19. Origin Of The East Asian Linguistic Structure
Chap 20. Some Old Chinese Loan Words In The Tai Languages
Chap 21. Sino-Tai
Chap 22. Southern Chinese Dialects: The Tai Connection
Chap 23. The Austroasiatics In Ancient South China: Some Lexical Evidence
Chap 24. The Linguistic Position Of Róng (Lepcha)
Chap 25. On The Place Of Lepcha In Sino-Tibetan: A Lexical Comparison
Chap 26. Language Contact Between Related Languages: Burmese Influences Upon Plains Chin
Chap 27. Influence Of Burmese Language On Some Other Languages Of Burma
Chap 28. A Tentative List Of Mon Loanwords In Burmese
Chap 29. Phonological Convergence Between Languages In Contact
Chap 30. Nissaya Burmese
Chap 31. North-East India As A Linguistic Area
Chap 32. Indo-Aryan And Tibeto-Burman Contact As Seen Through Nepali And Newari Verb Tenses
Chap 33. Languages In Contact In Western China
Chap 34. Altaic Elements In The Linxia Dialect

Volume III: Languages And Their Functions

Part 1. Orthography, Grammar, And Lexicon
Chap 35. Scripts Of The Brahmaputra Valley
Chap 36. Orthography And Identity Among The Khamti Shan Of Assam: A Historical Overview
Chap 37. The Prospects For Computerized Lexicography Of Tibeto-Burman Languages
Chap 38. Pronouns, Verb Agreement Systems And The Subgrouping Of Tibeto-Burman
Chap 39. Verb Agreement In Garo: Its Functional Load
Chap 40. Verb Stem Alternation In Rabha And Other Sal Languages
Chap 41. Synchronic And Diachronic Observations On Mizo Phonology
Chap 42. The Lexical Restructuring Of Tibetan Verbs
Chap 43. Compounding In Tibeto-Burman
Chap 44. The Classifiers In Lahu
Chap 45. Semantic Change And The Classifier Systems Of The Southeast

Part 2. Language And Society
Chap 46. Towards A Syntactic Typology Of The Himalayas
Chap 47. Evidentials In Tibetan
Chap 48. Some Tibeto-Burman Syntactic Patterns
Chap 49. Language And Culture In Tibeto-Burman
Chap 50. Linguistic Human Rights And The Tibeto-Burman Peoples Of The Himalayas

Volume IV: Endangered And Emerging Languages

Part 1. Endangered Languages
Chap 51. Language Endangerment In The Himalayas
Chap 52. The Impending Death Of Kinnauri
Chap 53. Dying Tongues In The Himalayas: A Study Of Limboo
Chap 54. The Position Of Dulong Within Tibeto-Burman
Chap 55. Issues In Endangered Language Research

Part 2. Emerging Languages And Research Directions
Chap 56. Emerging National Languages In The Himalayan Region
Chap 57. Towards A Comprehensive Historical Phonology Of Tibeto-Burman
Chap 58. Areal Features Of The Himalayan Region
Chap 59. Lexical Evidence For The Eastern Himalayan Subgrouping Of Tibeto-Burman
Chap 60. Sino-Tibetan Research: Achievements And Challenges

 

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