The spread of language families is hypothesized to have occurred via agricultural and
demographic transitions that drove populations outwards from agricultural centres of …

This study performs primary data collection, transcription, and cognate coding for eight
South West Tibetic languages (Lowa, Gyalsumdo, Nubri, Tsum, Yohlmo, Kagate, Jirel, and …

Six main alternative linkage proposals which involve the Sino-Tibetan family, including
Sinitic and other language families of the East Asian area (Miao-Yao, Altaic/Transeurasian …

High-altitude environments pose substantial challenges for human survival and
reproduction, attracting considerable attention to the demographic and adaptive histories of …

This cumulative thesis is based on three separate projects based on a computer-assisted
language comparison (CALC) framework to address common obstacles to studying the …

In the past, linguists such as Shafer (1955), Bradley (1997) and Noonan (2008) repeatedly
assigned the Tshangla branch of the Trans-Himalayan language family a position close to …

Ever since Shafer (1954), linguists have tacitly presumed that there is a linguistic subgroup
spoken in a contiguous area of central and northeastern Bhutan, north-western Arunachal …

Grammaticalised marking of epistemic meaning---that is meaning conditioned by the
relationship between speech act participants and the information at hand---is widespread …