Sino-Tibetan Linguistics by LaPolla, Randy;

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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. This 4 volume collection will include the very best articles and seminal contributions to Sino-Tibetan studies to create a vital one stop research resource.

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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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CONTENTS

Volume I: 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

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

17 The topography of certain phonetic and morphological characteristics of South East Asian languages

Eugénie 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 Línxià dialect: contact-induced change on the Yellow River Plateau

Arienne M. Dwyer

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

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

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

Eugénie 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