Tibeto-Burman tonogenetics by Mazaudon, Martine

“…The field of Tibeto-Burman tonogenetics is a very young one, and it might seem premature to attempt a survey of its achievements. …”
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Evidentiality in Darma (Tibeto-Burman) by Willis, Christina M.

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Notes on tone in Tibeto-Burman by Mazaudon, Martine

“…This paper is a collection of excerpts of a much larger paper dealing with tone throughout the whole Tibeto-Burman family. Thus 'Notes. • • ' is a collection of topics including development of tone on polysyllabic units. the tonogenetic effect of tone on finals, and tone in Tibetan•…”
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The category of direction in Tibeto-Burman by DeLancey, Scott

“…Recent descriptive and historical work on Tibeto-Burman has shown that personal indices on the verb in the "pron- ominalized" languages generally reflect not semantic roles or grammatical relations, as in more familiar languages, but a hierarchy of person in which first and second person are always indexed in preference to third. …”
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Tangut and Tibeto-Burman morphology by DeLancey, Scott

“…Since the earliest serious Tangut studies (Laufer 1916) it has been generally accepted that Tangut is a Tibeto-Burman lan¬guage, with particular links to the Lolo-Burmese branch of the family. …”
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Etymological notes on Tibeto-Burman by DeLancey, Scott

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Dulong and Proto-Tibeto-Burman by LaPolla, Randy J.

“…This paper compares the Dulong language of northwestern Yunnan Province in China to other Tibeto-Burman languages and to Proto-Tibeto-Burman, with a view toward understanding the historical development of Dulong and toward supporting, revising, and adding to the body of accepted PTB reconstructions.…”
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Tibeto-Burman "split cognates" by Benedict, Paul K.

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“Optional” “ergativity” in Tibeto-Burman languages by DeLancey, Scott

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Word order in Tibeto-Burman languages by Dryer, Matthew S.

“…This paper gives a detailed description of the word order patterns found among Tibeto-Burman languages. While Tibeto-Burmanists sometimes think that many Tibeto-Burman languages have some unexpected features for verb-final languages, this is by and large not the case. …”
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Tibeto-Burman languages of PDR Lao by Bradley, David

“…According to the official classification of ethnic groups in PDR Lao, there are 47 distinct groups; seven of these are Tibeto-Burman (TB). In some cases, linguistically distinct groups are classified together; in other cases, groups lumped together elsewhere are distinguished in PDR Lao. …”
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Pronominal verb morphology in Tibeto-Burman by Bauman, Jim

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Notes on Tibeto-Burman consonant clusters by Sun, Hongkai

“…In the People's Republic of China, there are more than thirty Tibeto-Burman languages, some having early written records e.g., Written Tibetan and Xixia, which are important to research on Tibeto-Burman consonant clusters. …”
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My work in Tibeto-Burman linguistics by Dai, Qingxia

“…I began my study of Tibeto-Burman languages in October of 1952 at the Central Institute for Nationality Studies (CINS) in Beijing. …”
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'Anti-ergative' marking in Tibeto-Burman by LaPolla, Randy J.

“…Using arguments based on the data on verb agreement (pronominalization) in Tibeto-Burman (TB), LaPolla 1989 (see also LaPolla 1992) claims that Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB) should be reconstructed as a language with no inflectional morphology. …”
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On the dating and nature of verb agreement in Tibeto-Burman by LaPolla, Randy J.

“…As the verb agreement (pronominalization) systems of Tibeto-Burman have been said to be a type of ergative marking, and to have been a part of Proto-Tibeto-Burman grammatical relations, the questions of the dating and nature of the agreement systems in Tibeto-Burman are relevant to the discussion of the nature of grammatical relations in Proto-Sino-Tibetan.…”
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Optional case marking in Darma (Tibeto-Burman) by Willis, Christina M.

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On the category of causative verbs in Tibeto-Burman languages by Sun, Hongkai

“…The category of causation exists in the majority of Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages, but its importance is not the same in each language. …”
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Non-Tibeto-Burman features in PaTani by Sharma, Suhnu R.

“…Elaborate inflectional systems in nouns and verbs and a non-Tibeto-Burman substratum (possibly Indo-Aryan) makes PaTani unique among Tibeto-Burman languages…”
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Elevation and fog-cloud similarity in Tibeto-Burman languages by Hongdi Ding, Sicong Dong

“…Abstract Lexically, 52.99% of the Tibeto-Burman languages, the non-Sinitic branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family, treat fog as something identical or similar to cloud, based on our database of 234 Tibeto-Burman varieties; there are three lexical relations of such fog-cloud similarity in Tibeto-Burman languages, namely cloud colexified with fog, cloud as a hypernym of fog, and cloud as a formative of fog. …”
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