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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Tibeto-Burman"”.
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Predication, reference and modification: Major word classes in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language
… investigate the word class system in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language from central Bhutan. Word classes form a fundamental part of basic linguistic analysis, as tasks like writing phrase structure rules or positing derivational affixes require assumptions about how words in a language are …
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Predication, reference and modification: Major word classes in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language
… investigate the word class system in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language from central Bhutan. Word classes form a fundamental part of basic linguistic analysis, as tasks like writing phrase structure rules or positing derivational affixes require assumptions about how words in a language are …
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Syntactic Change in the Verbal System of Bumthang,a Tibeto-Burman Language of Bhutan
… suffix -na to the copula na in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language of central Bhutan. I discuss the formal and functional properties of each to demonstrate that the suffix-na originates in the structural reanalysis of the copula na. Previous research has shown how copulas in Tibeto-Burman …
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Syntactic Change in the Verbal System of Bumthang,a Tibeto-Burman Language of Bhutan
… suffix -na to the copula na in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language of central Bhutan. I discuss the formal and functional properties of each to demonstrate that the suffix-na originates in the structural reanalysis of the copula na. Previous research has shown how copulas in Tibeto-Burman …
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TOPICS IN HAKHA LAI NOMINAL MARKING
… Hakha Lai, a South Central (formerly Kuki-Chin) Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Chin state in Burma and in diaspora communities worldwide. Hakha Lai discourse deictics are derived from the spatial deictic markers of the demonstrative paradigm, where they encode information about the spatial …
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Human population history and genetic adaptation in the Himalayan region
… with the distribution of Indo-European and Tibeto-Burman speakers, suggesting that both language and geography have influenced the genetic structure of these populations. I refined Himalayan population demographic history, using both autosomal and uniparental sequences. Himalayan populations …