Utilizing a historical and international approach, this valuable two-volume resource makes
even the more complex linguistic issues understandable for the non-specialized reader …

This grammar is an attempt to have Mandarin speak for itself as much as possible. Most of
the information is provided in the presentation and analysis of examples. Beijing Mandarin …

One dimension along which language families differ considerably is in the range of
typological variation across languages of the same stock. 1 Indo-European, for example …

A persistent problem in Sino-Tibetan linguistics is that Chinese is characterized by a mix of
lexical, phonological, and syntactic features, some of which link it to the Tibeto-Burman …

This dissertation presents in-depth description and analysis the Zophei sound system within
the context of the closely-related Maraic languages. Zophei (or Zyphe, ISO 639-3 ZYP), a …

Perhaps the single most important historical event in East Asia in Late Antiquity was the
migration of Mongolic-speaking peoples into the lands of the former Chinese empire in …

Using etymological methods, the present study has researched four Sinitic and Germanic
shared (Sino-Germanic) etymologies (etyma) and two Sinitic and Uralic shared (Sino-Uralic) …

The paper discusses recent suggestions that Tibetan may originally have had a system of
person marking, which could thus be reconstructed for proto-Tibeto-Burman. While self …

The present paper reports the intensive controversy on Chinese historical phonology that
broke out in 2002. After sorting through over 150 Chinese papers on the intensive …

Using etymological methods, the present study has identified two Sinitic and Germanic
shared (SinoGermanic) etymologies (etyma):[南, 陰]. These two etyma form a rhyme …