Since Sino-Tibetan (ST) is one of the greatest language families in the world-even Indo-
European does not have more first-language speakers-it is sobering to realize that ST …

This article contributes to the case for reconstructing verb agreement for Proto-Tibeto-
Burman. It shows first that, given the distribution of cognate agreement systems across the …

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 …

Certain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of
complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013). Others show a radically …

Phonological reconstruction of the Kiranti or East Himalayish subgroup of Tibeto-Burman.
Voiced and unvoiced series are reconstructed, with divergent evolutions depending on the …

This paper challenges the conventional views on the phylogeny of the bundle of languages
of Eastern Nepal subsumed under the name 'Kiranti'. Contrary to the widespread belief that …

Egophoricity is a cross-linguistically rare grammatical phenomenon. While numerous
descriptive studies have substantially improved our synchronic understanding of the …

The study of hierarchical argument indexation systems shows that while the ranking of both
1st and 2nd person over other arguments is robust and reliable, it is impossible to find any …

Les caractères typologiques de la conjugaison du verbe kiranti sont examinés. Ensuite,
l'auteur aborde le problème historique de la position de flexion en tibéto-birman et présente …

The Kiranti group consists of some thirty or more languages spoken in the Eastern Nepal
hills, from the districts of Ramechhap and Sindhuli to Nepal's eastern border, and beyond it …