Author: Nathan W. Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107146488
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 389
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An original new perspective on the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, with a particular focus on their phonological development.
Author: Nathan W. Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316601518
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 387
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The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the appearance of written records, e.g. Latin p- corresponds to English f- (pes, foot; primus, first; plenus, full). Although Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan have long been regarded as related, the systematic exploration of their shared history has never before been attempted. Tracing the history of these three languages using just such sound laws, this book sheds light on the prehistoric language from which they descend. Written for readers with little linguistic knowledge of these languages, but fully explicit and copiously indexed for the specialist, this work will serve as the bedrock for future progress in the study of these languages.
Author: Nathan Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108575625
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages :
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The discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretching back thousands of years before the appearance of written records, e.g. Latin p- corresponds to English f- (pes, foot; primus, first; plenus, full). Although Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan have long been regarded as related, the systematic exploration of their shared history has never before been attempted. Tracing the history of these three languages using just such sound laws, this book sheds light on the prehistoric language from which they descend. Written for readers with little linguistic knowledge of these languages, but fully explicit and copiously indexed for the specialist, this work will serve as the bedrock for future progress in the study of these languages.
Author: Zhongwei Shen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107135842
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 441
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A one-stop, comprehensive account of the key developments in the phonological history of Chinese.
Author: Jerome L. Packard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139431668
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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This ground breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese 'doesn't have words' but instead 'has characters'. Jerome Packard's book provides a comprehensive discussion of the linguistic and cognitive nature of Chinese words. It shows that Chinese, far from being 'morphologically impoverished', has a different morphological system because it selects different 'settings' on parameters shared by all languages. The analysis of Chinese word formation therefore enhances our understanding of word universals. Packard describes the intimate relationship between words and their components, including how the identities of Chinese morphemes are word-driven, and offers new insights into the evolution of morphemes based on Chinese data. Models are offered for how Chinese words are stored in the mental lexicon and processed in natural speech, showing that much of what native speakers know about words occurs innately in the form of a hard-wired, specifically linguistic 'program' in the brain.
Author: Paul K. Benedict
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521081750
Category : Sino-Tibetan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: Graham Thurgood
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700711291
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.
Author: William H. Baxter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199945373
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 449
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This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old Chinese, the language of the earliest Chinese classical texts (1st millennium BCE).
Author: Christopher Button
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944613498
Category : Chin languages
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Author: Paul Sidwell
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110558149
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.
