The Tibetic languages and their classification

N Tournadre - Trans-Himalayan linguistics: Historical and descriptive …, 2014 - degruyter.com
The term “Tibetic” has been used in the recent past by some authors in different ways to refer
to various intermediate levels of classification within Tibeto-Burman (eg Matisoff 2003 …

Uvulars and uvularization in Tangut phonology

X Gong - Language and Linguistics, 2020 - jbe-platform.com
Tangut, a mediaeval Qiangic language (Sino-Tibetan family) distinguishes three grades (d
ng). The traditional Sofronov-Gong reconstruction of this distinction postulates different …

[BOEK][B] The Sino-Tibetan Languages

RJ LaPolla, G Thurgood - 2006 - books.google.com
There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language
family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human …

An Internal Reconstruction of Tibetan Stem Alternations1

G Jacques - Transactions of the Philological Society, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Tibetan verbal morphology differs considerably from that of other Sino‐Tibetan languages.
Most of the vocalic and consonantal alternations observed in the verbal paradigms remain …

[PDF][PDF] Towards a standardisation of Tibetan transliteration for textual studies

J Bialek - Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, 2020 - himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk
Introduction 1 n the past few decades the so-called 'Wylie-system of transliteration'2 has
been more and more commonly used in scholarly literature. It owes its popularity mainly to …

A reconstruction of Proto-Kiranti verb roots

G Jacques - Folia Linguistica, 2017 - degruyter.com
In Kiranti languages, rich alternations in verbal paradigms make internal reconstruction
possible, and allow a better understanding of the vowels and codas of the proto-language …

Old Tibetan verb morphology and semantics: An attempt at a reconstruction

J Bialek - Himalayan Linguistics, 2020 - escholarship.org
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 …

L'évidentialité en anglais-approche contrastive à partir d'un corpus anglais-tibétain

E Mélac - 2014 - theses.hal.science
Cette étude vise à fournir une description détaillée de l'évidentialité en anglais dans une
approche contrastive avec le tibétain. Elle repose sur un corpus spécialement recueilli au …

The Proto-Tibetan clusters sL-and sR-and the periodisation of Old Tibetan

J Bialek - Himalayan Linguistics, 2018 - escholarship.org
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 …

A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish

G Hyslop - Trans-Himalayan Linguistics, 2014 - degruyter.com
It has often been assumed that the languages of Bhutan are simply dialects of Tibetan (eg
most of the Bhutanese languages listed in the Ethnologue, Lewis 2009, are classified as …