This article investigates the grammaticalization patterns of evidentiality from a cross-
linguistic perspective with a focus on Lhasa Tibetan. It documents the history of the …

A number of tools to assess the degree of language vitality have been developed, tested,
and refined in an international collaborative context. This paper explores the uses and limits …

The paper presents the first complete reconstruction of the Old Tibetan (OT) verb
morphology and semantics. Old Tibetan had a productive verb inflection with meaningful …

The main objective of this paper is to propose the first tentative periodisation of the Old
Tibetan (OT) language based on a group of related sound changes. As it occurs, at the time …

This article presents the first diachronic investigation of the honorific register in Tibetic
languages. Although all historically attested Tibetic languages possess at least some …

The dialect of Tabo in the Lahul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, India, belongs to the
group of" Western Innovative Tibetan"(Bielmeier 1998) and is therefore related to the …

The evidence for Tibeto-Burman (tb) as a subgroup of Sino-Tibetan (st) 1 has been very
extensively documented in Benedict (1972), Bradley (1997a, 2002) and Matisoff (2003) …

The paper surveys the distribution of the titles bcan po and khri in historical and non-
historical documents of the Tibetan Empire. Their patterns of usage suggest the existence of …

Spoken in the extreme northeastern part of the Tibetan plateau, Salar shares a long history
of contact with the neighbouring Tibetic, Sinitic and Mongolic varieties (see eg Dwyer 1995 …

Several Tibetic languages feature a cognate sociative/benefactive applicative construction
which grammaticalised from a root related to the idea of 'association'or 'help'. The applicative …