Overview

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.

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Author:   Randy LaPolla
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780415577397

ISBN 10:   041557739
Pages:   1445
Publication Date:   22 October 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS Volume I: Establishing the Relationships Acknowledgements Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters Preface Introduction to Volume I: Establishing the relationships Part 1. Establishing the relationships 1 Languages and dialects of China Fang-Kuei Li 2 Where it all began: memories of Robert Shafer and the Sino-Tibetan Linguistics Project , Berkeley 1939-40 Paul K. Benedict 3 Thai, Kadai, and Indonesian: a new alignment in southeastern Asia Paul K. Benedict 4 Classification of the Sino-Tibetan languages Robert Shafer 5 Notes on Fang-Kuei Li's 'Languages and dialects of China' James A. Matisoff 6 Sino-Tibetan: another look Paul K. Benedict 7 On megalocomparison James A. Matisoff 8 Comment on Matisoff's comparison between Greenberg and Benedict Paul K. Benedict 9 Sino-Tibetan linguistics: present state and future prospects James A. Matisoff 10 The Sal languages Robbins Burling 11 On the evidence for the relationship Kiranti-Rung Karen H. Ebert 12 The linguistic position of Tani (Mirish) in Tibeto-Burman: a lexical assessment Jackson T.-S. Sun Part 2. Sino-Tibetan historical reconstruction 13 The number a hundred in Sino-Tibetan J. Przyluski and G. H. Luce 14 Concerning the variation of final consonants in the word families of Tibetan, Kachin, and Chinese Stuart N. Wolfenden 15 Variable finals in Proto-Sino-Tibetan Randy J. LaPolla 16 A comparative study of the Chinese, Tibetan, and Burmese vowel systems Hwang-cherng Gong Volume II: Language contact and areal features Introduction to Volume II: Language contact and areal features 17 The topography of certain phonetic and morphological characteristics of South East Asian languages Eugenie J. A. Henderson 18 Language diffusion on the Asian continent: problems of typological diversity in Sino-Tibetan Mantaro J. Hashimoto 19 Origin of the East Asian linguistic structure: latitudinal transitions and longitudinal developments of East and Southeast Asian languages Mantaro J. Hashimoto 20 Some old Chinese loan words in the Tai languages Li Fang-Kuei 21 Sino-Tai Fang-Kuei Li 22 Southern Chinese dialects: the Tai connection Oi-kan Yue Hashimoto 23 The Austroasiatics in ancient South China: some lexical evidence Jerry Norman and Tsu-lin Mei 24 The linguistic position of Rong (Lepcha) R. A. D. Forrest 25 On the place of Lepcha in Sino-Tibetan: a lexical comparison Nicholas C. Bodman 26 Language contact between related languages: Burmese influences upon Plains Chin Theodore Stern 27 Influence of Burmese language on some other languages of Burma (writings systems and vocabulary) Denise Bernot 28 A tentative list of Mon loan words in Burmese Hla Pe 29 Phonological convergence between languages in contact: Mon-Khmer structural borrowing in Burmese David Bradley 30 Nissaya Burmese: a case of systematic adaptation to a foreign grammar and syntax John Okell 31 North-East India as a linguistic area Dipankar Moral 32 Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman contact: as seen through Nepali and Newari verb tenses Edward H. Bendix 33 Languages in contact in Western China Charles N. Li 34 Altaic elements in the Linxia dialect: contact-induced change on the Yellow River Plateau Arienne M. Dwyer Volume III: Sinitic Introduction to Volume III: Sinitic Part 1. Archaic/Old Chinese and Ancient/Middle Chinese 35 Word families in Chinese Bernhard Karlgren 36 Cognate words in the Chinese phonetic series Bernhard Karlgren 37 Derivation by tone-change in Classical Chinese G. B. Downer 38 Tones and prosody in Middle Chinese and the origin of the rising tone Mei Tsu-lin 39 Some new hypotheses concerning word families in Chinese E. G. Pulleyblank 40 Some further evidence regarding Old Chinese -s and its time of disappearance E. G. Pulleyblank 41 Fangyan gleanings W. South Coblin 42 A new approach to Chinese historical linguistics Jerry L. Norman and W. South Coblin 43 A case of radical ambiguity in Old Chinese: some notes toward a discourse-based grammar Derek D. Herforth 44 The adposition yi and word order in Classical Chinese Chaofen Sun Part 2. Modern varieties 45 A system of tone letters Yuen-Ren Chao 46 The non-uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems Yuen-Ren Chao 47 Peiping phonology Charles F. Hockett 48 The zero initial and the zero syllabic Fang-Kuei Li 49 A systemic interpretation of Peking syllable finals M. A. K. Halliday 50 Tonal development in Min Jerry Norman 51 Hakka in Wellentheorie perspective Mantaro J. Hashimoto 52 The lexicon in syntactic change: lexical diffusion in Chinese syntax Anne Yue-Hashimoto 53 Arguments against subject and direct object as viable concepts in Chinese Randy J. LaPolla Volume IV: Tibeto-Burman Acknowledgements Introduction to Volume IV: Tibeto-Burman 54 Certain phonetic influences of the Tibetan prefixes upon the root initials Fang-Kuei Li 55 Notes on Tibetan verbal morphology W. South Coblin 56 Alternation of final vowel with final dental nasal or plosive in Tibetan Walter Simon 57 The addition of final stops in the history of Maru (Tibeto-Burman) Robbins Burling 58 Colloquial Chin as a pronominalized language Eugenie J. A. Henderson 59 Pronominal verb morphology in Tibeto-Burman Jim Bauman 60 On the dating and nature of verb agreement in Tibeto-Burman Randy J. LaPolla 61 Parallel grammaticalizations in Tibeto-Burman languages: evidence of Sapir's 'drift' Randy J. LaPolla 62 Verb agreement in Classical Newar and Modern Newar dialects Tej R. Kansakar 63 The historical status of the conjunct/disjunct pattern in Tibeto-Burman Scott DeLancey 64 Lahu nominalization, relativization, and genitivization James A. Matisoff 65 A linguistic image of nature: the Burmese numerative classifier system Alton L. Becker 66 Tonogenesis in Southeast Asia James A. Matisoff Index

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Randy J. LaPolla is Professor of Linguistics amd Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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