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1 online resource (xxxv, 250 pages) |
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Brill's Tibetan Studies Library |
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Brill's Tibetan studies library.
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| Contents |
Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia: New Horizons for Tibeto-Burman Studies in honor of David Bradley; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; List of Figures; List of Tables; David Bradley: A bibliography; Tabula Gratulatoria; Part A: Sociohistorical Linguistics in Regional Perspective; 1 David Bradley and Tibeto-Burman sociohistory: an introduction; 1.1 The life and career of David Bradley; 1.2 Contributions to the study of language; 1.3 Overview of volume contents; 1.4 Beyond the microlectal grammar: David Bradley's untold legacy |
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2 The so-called prefixes of Tibeto-Burman, and why they are so called2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Tibeto-Burman syllable structure: prefixes and sesquisyllabicity; 2.3 Morphophonemic behavior of prefixes; 2.4 The continuum of meaningfulness: prefixal semantics and the grammatical exploitation of prefixes; 2.5 Historical reasons for lack of meaningfulness; 2.6 The compounding/prefixation cycle (PTB 153-6); 2.7 A perennial problem: distinguishing *prefix-plus-initial-consonant from root-internal *consonant clusters; 2.8 Conclusions; Part B: Sociohistorical Linguistics & Language Endangerment |
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3 Dialect diversity and language resilience: The geolinguistics of Phuza vitality3.1 Geolinguistic and ethnolinguistic context; 3.2 Phuza ethnolinguistic endangerment; 3.3 Phuza dialect resilience; 3.4 Implications; 4 Language endangerment and loss of traditional knowledge: The case of Prinmi; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Central Prinmi as an endangered language; 4.3 Traditional knowledge embedded in Prinmi; 4.4 Language attrition in Prinmi; 4.5 Knowledge drain and language attrition; Part C: Sociohistorical Linguistics in China; 5 Introducing Limi: A rising tone is born; 5.1 Introduction |
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5.2 'Contourgenesis'5.3 Limi speakers and their sociolinguistic setting; 5.4 Methodology; 5.5 Limi's sound system; 5.6 Limi's development from Proto-Ngwi and its genetic position within Ngwi; 5.7 Conclusions: a rising tone is born; 6 Medial changes in Jino dialects; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Synchronic description of Jino medials; 6.3 Major types of medial changes; 6.4 Relative chronology; 6.5 Conclusion; 7 Family group classifiers in Khatso; 7.1 Overview of Khatso; 7.2 Family group classifiers; 7.3 Conclusion; 8 The morphology of numerals and classifiers in Japhug; 8.1 Introduction |
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8.2 Numerals and classifiers in Japhug8.3 Possible pathways of development for the numeral prefix paradigms in Gyalrongic; 8.4 Conclusion; Part D: Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia; 9 The characteristics of the Karen branch of Tibeto-Burman; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Phonology; 9.3 Morphosyntax; 9.4 Lexicon; 9.5 Multilingualism and multidialectalism; 9.6 Endangerment; 9.7 Conclusion; 9.8 Further research; 10 The sociolinguistic context of the Tangsa languages; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Individual language usage; 10.3 Traditional language usage cross-varieties |
| Summary |
Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia' blends insights from sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics and historical-comparative linguistics to shed new light on regional Tibeto-Burman language varieties and their relationships across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. The approach is inspired by leading Tibeto-Burmanist, David Bradley, to whom the book is dedicated. The volume includes twelve original research essays written by eleven Tibeto-Burmanists drawing on first-hand field research in five countries to explore Tibeto-Burman languages descended from seven internal sub-branches. Following two introductory chapters, each contribution is focused on a specific Tibeto-Burman language or sub-branch, collectively contributing to the literature on language identification, language documentation, typological analysis, historical-comparative classification, linguistic theory, and language endangerment research with new analyses, state-of-the-art summaries and contemporary applications |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bradley, David, 1947-
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Tibeto-Burman languages
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Sociolinguistics -- Southeast Asia
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Historical linguistics -- Southeast Asia
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Historical linguistics
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Sociolinguistics
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Tibeto-Burman languages
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Historische Sprachwissenschaft
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Tibetologie
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Southeast Asia
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Südostasien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sizhi Ding, Picus
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Pelkey, Jamin
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| LC no. |
2017942466 |
| ISBN |
9789004350519 |
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9004350519 |
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