The Sino-Tibetan languages / edited by Graham Thurgood & Randy J. LaPolla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thurgood, Graham.

LaPolla, Randy J.

Series:

Routledge language family series ; 3.

Routledge language family series ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sino-Tibetan languages.

Physical Description:

xxii, 727 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Contents:

1 A subgrouping of the Sino-Tibetan languages: the interaction between language contact, change, and inheritance / Graham Thurgood 3

2 Sino-Tibetan 6

3 Chinese 6

4 Tibeto-Burman 7

2 Overview of Sino-Tibetan morphosyntax / Randy J. LaPolla 22

1 Sino-Tibetan 22

2 Chinese 29

3 Tibeto-Burman 29

3 Word order in Sino-Tibetan languages from a typological and geographical perspective / Matthew S. Dryer 43

2 Word order in Tibeto-Burman 43

3 Chinese 48

Part 2 Old Chinese and Chinese Dialects 57

4 A sketch of late Zhou Chinese grammar / Derek Herforth 59

2 Late Zhou Chinese 59

3 Predication 60

4 Modification, clause demotion and nominalization 63

5 Basic constituent order 66

5 The Chinese dialects: phonology / Jerry Norman 72

6 Chinese dialects: grammar / Anne O. Yue 84

2 Grammatical categories 84

3 Sentence structure and word order 94

4 Major sentence types 96

7 The characteristics of Mandarin dialects / Dah-an Ho 126

1 Mandarin dialects in historical development 126

2 Some characteristics of Mandarin dialects 128

3 The regional characteristics of Mandarin dialects 129

8 Shanghai / Eric Zee, Liejiong Xu 131

1 Shanghai phonology / Eric Zee 131

2 Shanghai morphology and syntax / Liejiong Xu 138

9 Cantonese / Robert S. Bauer, Stephen Matthews 146

2 Phonology 146

3 Lexicon: colloquial Cantonese vocabulary 150

4 Grammar 151

10 Chinese writing / Mark Hansell 156

1 Structure and function 156

2 Historical development 160

3 Writing as evidence in historical reconstruction 163

4 Relation to other languages 164

Part 3 Tibeto-Burman Languages and Dialects 167

11 The Tibeto-Burman languages of Northeastern India / Robbins Burling 169

2 Typology 173

3 Classification 173

4 The central area 175

5 The northern area 178

6 The eastern border area 182

Part 4 Lolo-Burmese Languages 193

12 Burmese / Julian K. Wheatley 195

2 Phonology 197

3 Word classes 200

4 Syntax (constructions and particles) 202

13 Lahu / James A. Matisoff 208

2 Phonology 209

3 Lahu vocabulary and word formation 210

4 Clause structure 211

5 Form classes 212

6 Argument-verb relations 212

7 The noun phrase 214

8 The verb phrase (VP) 217

9 Nominalization and relativization 219

14 Lisu / David Bradley 222

2 Lisu phonology 223

3 Lisu morphosyntax 226

15 Akha / Inga-Lill Hansson 236

2 Phonology 237

3 Word formation 239

4 Syntax 241

5 Sentence particles 247

6 Noun incorporation 249

7 Final particles 251

Part 5 Bodish Languages 253

16 Classical Tibetan / Scott DeLancey 255

1 The Tibetan language 255

2 Phonology 256

3 Word classes and inflection 258

4 Word formation 262

5 The noun phrase 263

6 Clause and sentence 265

17 Lhasa Tibetan / Scott DeLancey 270

1 Phonology 270

2 Nouns, adjectives, and nominal morphology 273

3 The verb 276

4 Word formation 281

5 Syntax 282

Part 6 TGTM Languages 289

18 Tamang / Martine Mazaudon 291

2 Phonology 291

3 Typological summary 293

4 Basic sentences 293

5 The noun phrase 297

6 The verb phrase 300

7 Complex sentences 302

8 Comparison 309

10 Information structure 311

19 Chantyal / Michael Noonan 315

2 Phonology 315

3 Morphology 318

4 Word formation 327

5 Syntax 329

20 Nar-Phu / Michael Noonan 336

2 Phonology 337

3 Morphology 340

4 Word formation 347

5 Syntax 348

Part 7 Newar Dialects 353

21 Dolakha Newar / Carol Genetti 355

2 Phonology 356

3 Morphology 357

4 Verbs 359

5 Syntax 361

6 Narrative text 364

22 Kathmandu Newar (Nepal Bhasa) / David Hargreaves 371

2 Phonology 372

3 Inflectional morphology 373

4 Word formation 377

5 Syntax 378

Part 8 Northeastern India 385

23 Garo / Robbins Burling 387

2 Phonology 388

3 Verbs 390

4 Noun phrases 391

5 Adverbs and reduplication 397

6 Complex sentences 397

7 Language contact and language maintenance 399

24 Jinghpo / Dai Qingxia, Lon Diehl 401

1 Phonology 401

2 Grammar 403

25 Hakha Lai / David A. Peterson 409

2 Phonology 409

3 Inflectional morphology 410

4 Syntax 419

26 Meithei / Shobhana L. Chelliah 427

1 Location and classification 427

2 Phonetics and phonology 427

3 Morphology 429

4 Major lexical categories 431

5 Evidentiality 432

6 Syntax 433

27 Tshangla / Erik Andvik 439

2 Phonology 439

3 Morphophonemics 440

4 Noun phrase 441

5 Syntactic roles 443

6 Case marking 444

7 Tense/aspect 446

8 Negation 446

9 Mirativity 447

10 Copular clauses 448

11 Modality and sentence-types 448

12 Relative clauses 450

13 Complementation 451

14 Adverbial clauses 452

15 Clause chains 452

16 Concatenation 453

17 Grammaticalized non-final verbs 453

28 Tani languages / Jackson T.-S. Sun 456

2 Phonology 456

3 Morphology 458

4 Syntax 462

Part 9 Gyalrong Languages 467

29 Cogtse Gyarong / Yasuhiko Nagano 469

2 Outline of phonology 470

3 Morphology and morphosyntax 471

30 Caodeng rGyalrong / Jackson T.-S. Sun 490

2 Phonology 490

3 Morphology 491

4 Syntax 497

Part 10 Kiranti Languages 503

31 Kiranti languages: an overview / Karen H. Ebert 505

2 Typological characteristics 505

3 Genetic and areal groupings 516

32 Hayu / Boyd Michailovsky 518

2 Phonology 518

3 Morphophonology 519

4 Verb morphology 520

5 Non-verbal morphology and word classes 523

6 Syntax 524

7 Information structure and discourse particles 530

8 The noun phrase 530

33 Camling / Karen H. Ebert 533

2 Phonology 533

3 Nominals 534

4 The verb 537

5 Syntax 542

34 Belhare / Balthasar Bickel 546

2 Phonology 546

3 Inflectional morphology 548

4 Derivational morphology and compounding 559

5 Syntax 561

Part 11 Qiangic Languages 571

35 Qiang / Randy J. LaPolla 573

1 The phonological system 573

2 The noun phrase 575

3 Nominal relational morphology 577

4 The verb complex 579

5 Adverbials 583

6 The clause 584

36 Prinmi / Picus Sizhi Ding 588

2 Phonology 588

3 Morphology 591

4 Syntax 594

37 Tangut / Gong Hwang-Cherng 602

2 Phonology 602

3 Morphology 606

4 Word formation 610

5 Syntax 612

Part 12 Karen Languages 621

38 Eastern Kayah Li / David Solnit 623

2 Phonology 624

3 Word formation 625

4 Syntax 626

39 Pwo Karen / Atsuhiko Kato 632

2 Sounds 633

3 Parts of speech 634

4 Morphology 637

5 Syntax 639

Part 13 Other Languages 649

40 Yunnan Bai / Grace Wiersma 651

2 Phonology 654

3 Word classes 661

4 Word formation processes 666

5 Syntax 669

41 Dulong / Randy J. LaPolla 674

2 Phonology 674

3 Morphosyntax 675

42 Kham / David E. Watters 683

2 Phonology 685

3 Inflectional morphology 688

4 Adjectives and adjectivals 699

5 Noun phrase syntax 700

6 Nominalizations 701

7 Clause chains and switch reference 702

8 Evidentials 703

43 Lepcha / Heleen Plaisier 705

2 Phonology 705

3 Nominal morphology 707

4 Verbal morphology 712

5 Text 715.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0700711295

OCLC:

59556542