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2011
This monograph presents a comparative lexicon of five representative Phula languages: Phola [ypg], Phuza [ypz], Hlepho Phowa [yhl], Southern Muji [ymc] and Azha [aza]. These languages belong to the Southeastern Ngwi branch of Burmic in the Tibeto-Burman family and are spoken in southeastern Yunnan Province, China. Following a brief introduction to the ethnohistory, social geography, linguistic typology and genetic lineage of these languages and their next-of-kin, the lexicon provides over 1,100 comparative entries for each representative lect with Chinese and English glosses organized by semantic domain. Footnotes follow each set of 25 entries page-by-page for the clarification of semantic field ambiguities, usage idiosyncrasies, subtle dialect distinctions and other notes of interest gleaned during elicitation sessions. The primary comparative list is followed by a transposed 660-item list sorted according to Ngwi protoforms (Bradley 1979) for diachronic comparison. These combined wordlists constitute a sampling of the data collected by the author from 2005-2006 in cooperation with the Honghe Nationalities Research Institute, Yuxi Normal University, the Wenshan Zhuang Studies Council, La Trobe University and SIL-International, East Asia Group. The work is intended to serve as a companion to Pelkey (2011), in which historical dialectology is undertaken to operationalize these languages, along with 19 others—validating them in the process as ontogenetic representatives of their respective macro-clades.
Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
Special session on Tibeto-Burman and Southeast Asian linguistics in honor of Prof. James A. Matisoff : proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Febrary 15-18, 20022002 •
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Lexical Comparisons between Proto-Kuki-Chin and Jinghpaw: Evidence for a Central Branch of Trans Himalayan2022 •
This paper presents a set of lexical correspondences between Jinghpaw and Proto-Kuki-Chin as reconstructed by VanBik (2009) which have no attested comparanda outside the hypothesized Central branch of Trans-Himalayan/Sino-Tibetan suggested by Bradley (1997) and DeLancey (2021). Jinghpaw and South Central/Kuki-Chin represent two hypothesized groupings, Sal and Kuki-Naga, which are the major constituents of this proposed branch, so these comparisons are adduced as potential evidence for the Central hypothesis. Included in these lexical comparisons is a substantial number of sets where there are Jinghpaw comparanda for one or the other, or both, of the alternating verbal stems reconstructed for PKC. It is argued that these represent particularly strong evidence for a special genealogical connection between the languages.
Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society, 11 (2): xcviii-cx.
Review: Thurgood, Graham, and Randy LaPolla, eds. The Sino-Tibetan Languages. Second Edition. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xxx + 1018 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-78332-4. price 300 GBP2018 •
It has been fourteen years since the appearance of the first edition of this compendium of Trans-Himalayan languages. In its second edition, the volume has swollen to encompass 53 chapters. As Simon and Hill (2015: 381) noted, the language family "is known by names including 'Tibeto-Burman', 'Sino-Tibetan' and 'Trans-Himalayan', of which the last is the most neutral and accurate". McColl et al. (2018: 362) put it more succinctly in their Science article, stating simply: "Trans-Himalayan (formerly Sino-Tibetan)". In the very title to this volume, the two editors, Graham Ward Thurgood and Randy John LaPolla, loudly proclaim their adherence to the obsolete and empirically unsupported "Sino-Tibetan" phylogeny, but many of the contributors to this Routledge volume do not themselves subscribe to the same antiquated Indo-Chinese understanding of the language family. Outside of this volume, a good number of the contributing scholars openly abjure this family tree model. Later, we shall examine how the outspoken bias of the two editors pervades the volume in a thorough and more insidious manner than in the first edition. The anthology comprises 44 grammatical sketches, two of which are devoted to dead Trans-Himalayan languages, five survey articles, two editorial pieces, a piece on the Chinese writing system and a discussion of word order. Editorial misrepresentations, the state of the art and Gerber's Law This volume contains many valuable, some truly wonderful and a few problematic instalments, but the Routledge compendium is truly marred by the two editorial pieces authored by Thurgood and LaPolla and positioned at the very beginning of the book. In addition to the two large editorial pieces, the first section also contains a brief study of word order in Trans-Himalayan languages by Matthew Synge Dryer. A volume that purports to present a general overview of the field should dispassionately present different positions held by specialists in that field, and the failure even just once to mention that alternative views exist that are quite at variance with Thurgood and LaPolla's own particular view characterises an unfair comportment on the part of the two editors that is not just unsportsmanlike, but unscholarly and unworthy of our field. For well over a century, the phylogeny of the language family has been a matter of considerable controversy. Yet both editors are careful to cite and quote only such sources as happen to agree with their own model. The empirically unsupported Indo-Chinese taxonomy relentlessly propounded by an ever dwindling number of "true believer" Sino-Tibetanists permeates the very arrangement of the book, and the two editors have even wilfully skewed the contents of the volume in order to fit their obsolete Indo-Chinese family tree. In keeping with this "Sino-Tibetan" conceit, the editors have included six instalments on Sinitic, though the sheer brevity of Dah-an Ho's instalment on Mandarin could reflect a reluctance on the part of its contributor to indulge the paradigm championed by the two editors. Indeed, as already noted, many of the scholars who have contributed to this volume reject the language family tree model touted by the editors. Moreover, the editorial twosome surreptitiously sneak their own "Rung" subgroup into the table of contents, thereby falsely suggesting that this fiction represents a valid taxon within the family. To exacerbate matters, their table of contents incompetently groups Tshangla and Newar as "Bodish" languages.
STEDT Monograph Series #10
Proto Northern Chin (Volume 1 - An Old Burmese and Old Chinese Perspective; Volume 2 - An Etymological Dictionary of Northern Chin)2011 •
Akulov A., Nonno T. 2024. Some lexical correspondences between the Ainu language and the Sino-Tibetan family. Cultural Anthropology and Ethnosemiotics, Vol. 10, N 1; pp.: 16 - 39
Some lexical correspondences between the Ainu language and the Sino-Tibetan familyIn 2016 through an analysis of grammar has been shown that Ainu is a relative of the Sino-Tibetan languages. Although grammar is more important than lexis, but lexical similarities are also very important, so the current paper is aimed to demonstrate some lexical correlations between Ainu and Proto-Sino-Tibetan (PST) / Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB). In this article are shown 34 reconstructed lexical items of Late Jōmon Ainu (LJA) that can be correlated with certain lexical items of PST or PTB. The most illustrative correlations are the following: “child” LJA *po ~ PST *pōk / *poj, copula / “to be” LJA *ne ~ PTB *nay, “deer” LJA *yuk ~ PTB *d-yuk; “to dwell” LJA *ʔun ~ PTB *ʔum; “face” LJA *nan ~ PST ŋār, “to go” LJA *paye ~ PTB *pay, LJA “to be high”, “elevation” – *ri ~ PTB “mountain” – *ri; “I” LJA *ku ~ PTB *ka; “woman” LJA *mat ~ PTB *ma.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 26: 45-56.
Language change, conjugational morphology and the Sino-Tibetan Urheimat1993 •
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 86(1). 107—209
Review of Shi Xiangdong 施向东, Hanzangyu bijiao yanjiu 汉藏语比较研究 [Chinese-Tibetan Comparative Linguistics] (Shanghai: Zhongxi 2021)2023 •
pp. 229-259 in Yoshio Nishi, James Alan Matisoff and Yasuhiko Nagano, eds., New Horizons in Tibeto-Burman Morphosyntax (Senri Ethnological Studies 41). Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.
Black Mountain conjugational morphology, Proto-Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax, and the linguistic position of Chinese1995 •
International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research
Dissimilar Response of 2D and 3D Astrocyte Cell Cultures to Protective Effect of Recombinant Human Erythropoietin Against Amyloid-beta 25-35 ToxicityJournal of Academic Emergency Medicine
Endovascular Stent-graft Placement for the Emergency Treatment of Ruptured Descending Aortic Aneurysm2014 •
Journal of Applied Animal Research
Comparative foraging behaviour and performance between cattle and horses grazing in heathlands with different proportions of improved pasture area2019 •
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Discrete Mathematics
Remarks on Bárány's theorem and affine selections2000 •
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling
Development of a three-dimensional model of the human respiratory system for dosimetric use2013 •
European Journal of Operational Research
A hierarchical approach for capacity coordination in multiple products single-machine production systems with stationary stochastic demands1995 •
Ensayos De Economia
Transformaciones sociales y fuentes de poder del empresariado chileno (1975-2010)2012 •
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Platform for in situ real-time measurement of protein-induced conformational changes of DNA2010 •
ACS Chemical Biology
Sequence-Selective Molecular Recognition of the C-Terminal CaaX-Boxes of Rheb and Related Ras-Proteins by Synthetic Receptors2014 •
Journal of Chromatography B
Quantitation of zoledronic acid in murine bone by liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry2013 •
ILAS-HUFS HK
Pacto Global: Fin de fronteras, países y estados. Nacimiento y organización de territorios2023 •
Food and Chemical Toxicology
Influence of dietary components associated with high or low risk of colon cancer on apoptosis in the rat colon2002 •
Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition
Food fortification as a complementary strategy for the elimination of micronutrient deficiencies: case studies of large scale food fortification in two Indian States2014 •
Competências digitais e digital storytelling: práticas e narrativas na formação docente
Competências digitais e digital storytelling: práticas e narrativas na formação docenteThe Routledge Companion to Expressionism in a Transnational Context, ed. by Isabel Wünsche
Expressionist Networks in the Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and the Soviet Union2019 •
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
WDR36andP53Gene Variants and Susceptibility to Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: Analysis of Gene-Gene Interactions2011 •
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
Ticks and Borrelia in urban and peri-urban green space habitats in a city in southern England2017 •