Sino Tibetan Linguistics

Author : Graham Thurgood
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700711291
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sino-Tibetan Languages written by Graham Thurgood and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Randy J. LaPolla
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0203221052
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sino-Tibetan Languages written by Randy J. LaPolla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Randy J. LaPolla
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315399490
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sino-Tibetan Languages written by Randy J. LaPolla and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few decades. Now in its second edition and fully updated to include new research, The Sino-Tibetan Languages includes overview articles on individual languages, with an emphasis on the less commonly described languages, as well as descriptions and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. There are overviews of the whole family on genetic classification and language contact, syntax and morphology, and also on word order typology. There are also more detailed overview articles on the phonology, morphosyntax, and writing system of just the Sinitic side of the family. Supplementing these overviews are articles on Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. Tibeto-Burman is reviewed by genetic or geographical sub-group, with overview articles on some of the major groups and areas, and there are also detailed descriptions of 41 individual Tibeto-Burman languages, written by world experts in the field. Designed for students and researchers of Asian languages, The Sino-Tibetan Languages is a detailed overview of the field. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related languages, and researchers working in historical, typological and comparative linguistics.

Author : Paul K. Benedict
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sino-Tibetan written by Paul K. Benedict and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1972-06-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, traces their family relationships and reconstructs in outline the parent language, Sino-Tibetan. There is a glossary of Tibeto-Burman index, which should prove of especial value as a working tool for scholars. Although the book was first drafted many years ago, Dr Benedict made extensive annotations on the original manuscript and Professor James A. Matisoff added many notes on bibliography and the Burmese-Lolo group of languages. The scope and original theses of the work, however, remain unaltered and the editors present it as a major and original contribution to the study of oriental linguistics.

Author : Nathan W. Hill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107146488
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese written by Nathan W. Hill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original new perspective on the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, with a particular focus on their phonological development.

Author : John F. McCoy
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004078505
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies written by John F. McCoy and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1986 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William S.-Y. Wang
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199856338
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics written by William S.-Y. Wang and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2015 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Hajime Kitamura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Current Issues in Sino-Tibetan Linguistics written by Hajime Kitamura and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Randy Lapolla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780415577397
Total Pages : 1445 pages
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Download or read book Sino-Tibetan Linguistics written by Randy Lapolla and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 1445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sino-Tibetan languages form the largest language family in the world in terms of native speakers, of whom there are some 1.4 billion spread across East Asia, Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia. The family consists of two branches: Sinitic, consisting of the Chinese languages (including Cantonese and Hakka), and Tibeto-Burman, which as well as Tibetan and Burmese includes several hundred further languages spoken from the Tibetan plateau in the north to the Malay peninsula in the south, and from northern Pakistan in the west to northeastern Vietnam in the east. This four-volume collection focuses on journal articles, with a small selection of seminal contributions from the book literature. Although the majority of the material is drawn from sources published in the past thirty years, some classic pieces are included; for example, a paper on Tibetan initials by F. K. Li which was published in 1933 and has never been surpassed. This new Major Work from Routledge is a set which someone new to the field of Sino-Tibetan studies could go to in order to get a general idea of the development and current state of the art of the subject, as aside from the seminal articles, there are introductions by the Editor that contextualise the articles and also cite relevant literature that built on the seminal articles. A veteran could also go to these volumes as an easy source for the most frequently cited articles in the field.

Author : James A. Matisoff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520098439
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman written by James A. Matisoff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: