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.
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Graham Thurgood is Professor in the Department of English at Chico, California State University. Randy J. LaPolla is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong.
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The Sino-Tibetan speaking people are associated in the literature with the Neolithic Yang-shao culture which originated in Yellow River valley in the central plains of northern China. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lexical tone melody, agentive marking, relator nouns, tonal onset, obstruent initials, major sentence types, sonorant initials, wit dialects, verb serialization, empathy hierarchy, ditransitive clauses, departing tone, case clitics, subordinated verb, syllable canon, native orthography, conjunctive participle, word order characteristics, adpositional phrases, perfective aspect marker, distal deictic, other dialect groups, tonal categories, clause chains, written lexicon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pwo Karen, Cambridge University Press, Old Chinese, Hong Kong, Arunachal Pradesh, Classical Tibetan, New York, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Pacific Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter, Southern Min, Minzu Yuwen, Southwestern Mandarin, University of California Press, Australian National University, David Bradley, International Conference, John Benjamins, Oxford University Press, Southeast Asian Linguistics, Southern Lisu, Lhasa Tibetan, Takale Kham, Academia Sinica, Northern Chinese New!
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The Sino-Tibetan speaking people are associated in the literature with the Neolithic Yang-shao culture which originated in Yellow River valley in the central plains of northern China. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lexical tone melody, agentive marking, relator nouns, tonal onset, obstruent initials, major sentence types, sonorant initials, wit dialects, verb serialization, empathy hierarchy, ditransitive clauses, departing tone, case clitics, subordinated verb, syllable canon, native orthography, conjunctive participle, word order characteristics, adpositional phrases, perfective aspect marker, distal deictic, other dialect groups, tonal categories, clause chains, written lexicon Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pwo Karen, Cambridge University Press, Old Chinese, Hong Kong, Arunachal Pradesh, Classical Tibetan, New York, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Pacific Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter, Southern Min, Minzu Yuwen, Southwestern Mandarin, University of California Press, Australian National University, David Bradley, International Conference, John Benjamins, Oxford University Press, Southeast Asian Linguistics, Southern Lisu, Lhasa Tibetan, Takale Kham, Academia Sinica, Northern Chinese New!
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