Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. — 230 p. — ISBN: 0521081750. A comprehensive account of the Sino-Tibetan, a language stock comparable in size and diversification to Indo-European and comprising Chinese, Karen and over a hundred Tibetan-Burman languages. Dr Benedict presents a systematic analysis of the morphology and phonology of the main descendants of the stock,...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 244 p. — (Princeton/Cambridge Studies in Chinese Linguistics, No. 2). A comprehensive account of the Sino-Tibetan, a language stock comparable in size and diversification to Indo-European and comprising Chinese, Karen and over a hundred Tibetan-Burman languages. Dr Benedict presents a systematic analysis of the morphology and phonology of the...
Columbus: Ohio State University, 2008. — xxi; 526 p. East Asian Studies Center. The 20th North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-20) was held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on 25-27 April 2008. NACCL-20 celebrated the twentieth anniversary of this annual conference and the conference’s first return to its birthplace at the Ohio State University....
Columbus: Ohio State University, East Asian Studies Center, 2008. — xviii; pp. 527 - 1075. The 20th North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-20) was held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, on 25-27 April 2008. NACCL-20 celebrated the twentieth anniversary of this annual conference and the conference’s first return to its birthplace at the Ohio State...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 334 p. — ISBN10: 0198723792. — ISBN: 978-0198723790. This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While many studies focus principally on Standard Mandarin, this work draws on extensive empirical data from lesser-known languages, and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths about the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. — xiii, 315 p. (Oxford Linguistics) — ISBN: 9780198723790. This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While many studies focus principally on Standard Mandarin, this work draws on extensive empirical data from lesser-known languages, and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths...
贵阳：贵州民族出版社，1991年。— 5；3；6；678页。 — ISBN: 7541202215 This immensely valuable book deals with the phonology, grammar, and vocabulary of Chinese, Yi (Lolo), and Burmese. It is a lengthy work, consisting of more than 530,000 characters. The book's distinctive approach combines the methodology of traditional phonological and historical-comparative linguistic with the insights to be...
Mouton De Gruyter, 2017. — 479 p. — (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs). — ISBN10: 3110460181, ISBN13: 978-3110460186. This edited volume brings together work on the evidential systems of Tibetan languages. This includes diachronic research, synchronic description of systems in individual Tibetan varieties and papers addressing broader theoretical or typological...
The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 2004. — 338 p. — (Pacific Linguistics 557). The country of Nepal is home to over one hundred distinct languages from four language families. The current volume provides grammar, glossaries, and texts for two of these languages: Kristine A. Hildebrandt's grammar and glossary of Manange, of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — xiv + 374 p. The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the appearance of written records, e.g. Latin p- corresponds to English f- (pes, foot; primus, first; plenus, full). Although Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan have...
Tribhuvan University, 1993. — 9 p. Tibeto-Burman' is now generally accepted as a designation for a group of genetically related languages within the Sino-Tibetan family. The Sino-Tibetan and in particular the Tibeto-Burman languages, however, still pose many classificatory problems due largely to insufficient linguistic evidence. The complexity of the problems involved can be...
Translated by Alan Thwaits. — V&R unipress, National Taiwan University Press, 2017. — 281 p. (Global East Asia, Vol 7) — ISBN: 9783847006992 (E-Book). And to establish our new framework of study, one of the methods we use is the peripheral approach. But as we are using the notion, “periphery” refers to more than the geographical periphery. The relationship of periphery and...
Berkeley, California, 2003. — 805 p. Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction. My involvement in Tibeto-Burman (TB) and Sino-Tibetan (ST) comparative reconstruction dates from my first fieldwork on Jingpho, Burmese, and Lahu in the 1960’s, and especially from my intense contact with Paul K. Benedict when I was teaching at Columbia...
S.l., s.a. — 148 p. This study was originally prepared for the 17th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics at the University of Oregon (September 1984), but has been languishing on the back burner for nearly a decade. Although it is the most extensive synchronic and diachronic treatment of the Tibeto-Burman numerals yet attempted, considerations of...
Eugene: University of Oregon, 2011. — vi; 261 p. The 23rd North American Conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-23) was organized and hosted by the University of Oregon on June 17-19, 2011. Corpus linguistics Tao Ming and Liang Chen. The ordering of multiple relative clauses modifying the same head NP in Chinese follows information-flow principles Shan Wang, Sophia Lee and...
Eugene: University of Oregon, 2011. — vi; 295 p. The 23rd North American Conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-23) was organized and hosted by the University of Oregon on June 17-19, 2011. Semantics and pragmatics I-Hsuan Chen. The semantic constraints on the VERB + zhĕ nouns in Mandarin Chinese Noah Constant. On the independence of the Mandarin aspectual and contrastive...
London: Routledge, 2003. — 727 p. — ISBN 0–7007–1129–5. 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 language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview...
Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — xvi, 223 p. — (Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse (SCLD), Volume 4) — ISBN: 9789027268112. The Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse book series publishes works of original research on Chinese from a linguistic, cognitive, socio-cultural, or interactional perspective. We welcome contributions based...
Smithfield, Rhode Island: Bryant University, 2009. — vi; 208 p. The 21st North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-21) was held at Bryant University on June 6-8, 2009. A total of 135 proposals were submitted to the conference organizing committee. Out of them seventy were selected for presentation at the conference, which covered a full range of issues in Chinese...
Smithfield, Rhode Island: Bryant University, 2009. — iii; pp. 209 - 600. The 21st North American conference on Chinese linguistics (NACCL-21) was held at Bryant University on June 6-8, 2009. A total of 135 proposals were submitted to the conference organizing committee. Out of them seventy were selected for presentation at the conference, which covered a full range of issues in...
Springer, 2017. — 303 p. — (Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics). — ISBN10: 9811061866, 13 978-9811061868. This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by...
Springer, 2017. — 322 p. — (Frontiers in Chinese Linguistics). — ISBN10: 9811061866, 13 978-9811061868. This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one. This working definition sets “middle construction” apart from “middle voice” in that it can be instantiated by...
Comments