Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies / edited by John McCoy, Timothy Light.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Light, Timothy, editor.

McCoy, John, editor.

Series:

Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.

Cornell linguistic contributions ; 5.

Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000

Cornell Linguistic Contributions ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language.

Sino-Tibetan languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a Festschrift volume dedicated to Emeritus Professor Nicholas C. Bodman, by his students, colleagues and friends and consists of a selection of contributions that match his interests in the descriptive, historical and comparative study of Chinese dialects (especially Min dialects) and the fields of Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Tibetan linguistics. The book is organized into sections: 1) General Compilation and Analysis (with articles by J.A. Matisov and M.J. Hashimoto), 2) Southeast Asian Languages (E.J.A. Henderson, R.B. Jones, W.J. Gedney, S. Egerod and M. Sherard), 3) Early Recorded Forms of Chinese (P. L-M Serruys, W.H. Baxter III, W. South Coblin and E.G. Pulleyblank), 4) Early Reconstructed Forms of Chinese (J. McCoy, J. Norman and K. Chang), 5) Modern Chinese Dialects (Y.C. Li, T. Light and A.R. Walton). These contributions by foremost scholars are significant. They throw new light and supply important new data on the linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Tibetan fields.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / John McCoy and Timothy Light

Dedication and Preface / John McCoy and Timothy Light

The Languages and Dialects of Tibeto-Burman: An Alphabetic/Genetic Listing, with Some Prefactory Remarks on Ethnonymic and Glossonymic Complications / James A. Matisoff

The Altaicization of Northern Chinese / Mantaro J. Hashimoto

Some Hitherto Unpublished Material on Northern (Megyaw) Hpun / Eugénie J. A. Henderson

Pitch Register Languages / Robert B. Jones

Speculations on Early Tai Tones / William J. Gedney

Little Claus in Akhaland / Søren Egerod

Morphological Structure of the Pronominal and Verb Systems in Two Pronominalized Himalayan Languages / Michael Sherard

Notes on the Grammar of the Oracular Inscriptions of Shang / Paul L-M Serruys

Old Chinese * -u and * -iw in the Shī-Jīng / William H. Baxter III

The Finals of the Shiming Language / W. South Coblin

Dentilabialization in Middle Chinese / E. G. Pulleyblank

Modern Suprasegmental Evidence for Consonant Clusters in Proto-Yue / John McCoy

The Origin of the Proto-Min Softened Stops / Jerry Norman

Hunan Reflexes of Ch'ieh-Yün Voiced-Stop and Affricate Initials / Kun Chang

Historical Significance of Certain Distinct Grammatical Features in Taiwanese / Y. C. Li

Toishan Affixal Aspects / Timothy Light

The Taishun Phonological System: A Descriptive Study of a Northeastern Min Dialect / A. Ronald Walton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Contributions to Sino-Tibetan Studies.

ISBN:

9789004655409

OCLC:

569911017

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004655409 DOI

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