The Chinese language [videorecording] /

“…This episode follows the evolution of the Chinese dialects, which originated 2,800 years ago in the Sino-Tibetan family of East Asian languages. mandarin was adopted as the official language of the Chinese empire inn 700 A.D. but ws replaced by Baihua writing in 1917. …”

Reduplication in Kua’nsi by Huade Huang

“…This paper investigates reduplication in Kua’nsi, a Central Ngwi language of the Sino-Tibetan family, spoken in Yunnan Province, China, by around 5000 speakers. …”
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Ancient Connections of Sinitic by David Bradley

“…Six main alternative linkage proposals which involve the Sino-Tibetan family, including Sinitic and other language families of the East Asian area (Miao-Yao, Altaic/Transeurasian, Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Austronesian) are briefly outlined. …”
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Chinese Word Order in the Comparative Sino-Tibetan and Sociotypological Contexts by Chingduang Yurayong, Erika Sandman

“…The present study discusses typology and variation of word order patterns in nominal and verb structures across 20 Chinese languages and compares them with another 43 languages from the Sino-Tibetan family. The methods employed are internal and external historical reconstruction and correlation studies from linguistic typology and sociolinguistics. …”
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Review of "上古汉语形态研究 Shànggŭ Hànyŭ Xíngtài Yánjiū" by Jacques, Guillaume

“…First, recent descriptions of languages belonging to subgroups such as Qiangic, Kiranti, or Kham1 have shown that lack of morphology and isolating typology is not widespread within the Sino-Tibetan family; quite on the contrary, it is limited to a few branches (such as Lolo-Burmese, Karen, Bai and Tujia) which have suffered severe phonological attribution and lost most traces of older morphology. …”
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