My involvement in Tibeto-Burman (TB) and Sino-Tibetan (ST) comparative reconstruction
dates from my first fieldwork on **gpho, Burmese, and Lahu in the 1960's, and especially …

Sino‐Tibetan is one of the great language families of the world, containing hundreds of
languages spoken by over 1 billion people, from Northeast India to the Southeast Asian …

Abstract Lexically, 52.99% of the Tibeto-Burman languages, the non-Sinitic branches of the
Sino-Tibetan language family, treat fog as something identical or similar to cloud, based on …

In this chapter, we address the role of contact in the evolution of tone in mainland Southeast
Asia (MSEA). We present an overview of the phonetic, phonological, and genetic …

Qiang is spoken in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northwest Sichuan
Province, China, by people classified as either Tibetan (Heishui county) or Qiang (other …

This book is a grammatical overview of the Dimasa language (known autonymically as Grao
Dima/IPA ɡɾawdima/; ISO 639-3), which is Tibeto-Burman (Trans-Himalayan) language …

Northern Qiang vowel systems have been described with eight to nine monophthongs,
which may be lengthened, rhotacized, or (non-phonemically) nasalized. This paper presents …

Evans' 2006b recognition of a phonological opposition between plain and uvularized vowels
in the Hóngyán variety of Northwestern Rma was an important discovery for Rma linguistics …

Prior work has suggested that proto-Rma was a non-tonal language and that tonal varieties
underwent tonogenesis (Liú 1998, Evans 2001a-b). This paper re-examines the different …

Abstract Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language of China, has been subdivided into two major
dialects based on the feature [+/-tone]. However, the presence or absence of tone in Qiang …