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Language variation : papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff ; [edited by] David Bradley ... [et al.].

Title: Language variation : papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff ; [edited by] David Bradley ... [et al.].
Publication: Canberra, A.C.T., Australia : Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2003.

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xii, 320 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Pacific linguistics ; 555

Uniform Title

Pacific linguistics ; no. 555.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Hmong secret languages : themes and variations / Martha Ratliff -- Variegated tonal developments in Tibetan / Jackson T.-S. Sun -- Some case studies on linguistic variation and their implications / Carol Genetti -- Recent language contact in the Nepal Himalaya / Michael Noonan -- Prosodic tautomorphemicity in Sino-Tibetan / Balthasar Bickel -- Ergativity in Thulung Rai : a shift in the position of pronominal split / Aimée Lahoussois -- Why languages differ : variation in the conventionalisation of constraints on inference / Randy J. LaPolla -- From discourse to grammar in Tamang : topic, focus, intensifiers and subordination / Martine Mazoudon -- Preliminary remarks on Gyarong negation particles / Yasuhiko Nagano -- Agreement and grammatical relations in Hyow / David A. Peterson -- Contact induced variation and syntactic change in the Tsat of Hainan / Graham Thurgood and Fengxiang Li -- Comparative notes on verb compounding in English and East Asian languages / Benji Wald -- Deictic patterns in Lisu and Southeastern Tibeto-Burman / David Bradley -- Suffix-runs and counters in Kiranti time-ordinals / Boyd Michailovsky -- The impact of English loanwords on the Cantonese syllabary / Robert S. Bauer -- On borrowing from Middle Chinese into Proto Tibetan : a new look at the problem of the relationship between Chinese and Tibetan / Michael Ferlus -- Phonetic fidelity vs. suggestive semantics : variations in Chinese character choice in the writing of loanwoards / Mark Hansell -- Original and sophisticated features of the Lepcha and Limbu scripts / Richard Keith Sprigg -- Three Tibeto-Burman languages of Vietnam / Jerold A. Edmonson.

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*OAR 04-9209

ISBN

0858835401 (pbk.)

OCLC

56586040

Title

Language variation : papers on variation and change in the Sinosphere and in the Indosphere in honour of James A. Matisoff ; [edited by] David Bradley ... [et al.].

Imprint

Canberra, A.C.T., Australia : Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, 2003.

Series

Pacific linguistics ; 555

Pacific linguistics ; no. 555.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Matisoff, James A.

Bradley, David, 1947-

Research Call Number

*OAR 04-9209

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