The Sino-Tibetan Languages
Title | The Sino-Tibetan Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Randy J. LaPolla |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 754 |
Release | 2006-05-17 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 113579717X |
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 articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.
The Sino-Tibetan Languages
Title | The Sino-Tibetan Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Graham Thurgood |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 754 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780700711291 |
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 articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.
The Sino-Tibetan Languages
Title | The Sino-Tibetan Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Randy J. LaPolla |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 751 |
Release | 2004-01-14 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0203221052 |
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 articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.
Sino-Tibetan
Title | Sino-Tibetan PDF eBook |
Author | Paul K. Benedict |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Sino-Tibetan languages |
ISBN | 0521081750 |
The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese
Title | The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan W. Hill |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2019-08-08 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1107146488 |
An original new perspective on the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, with a particular focus on their phonological development.
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | William S.-Y. Wang |
Publisher | |
Pages | 793 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0199856338 |
The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.
Tibeto-Burman Tonology
Title | Tibeto-Burman Tonology PDF eBook |
Author | Alfons Weidert |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 531 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027235481 |
This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects. This comparative study of tonology represents a significant contribution not only to the historical-comparative study of Tibeto-Burman, but also to the larger field of linguistic theory, especially now that the subject increasingly begins to be approached along diachronic lines. With this in mind, it is hoped that this work will provoke future research in the field.