This paper presents potential cognates of the qusheng derivations in more conservative
languages of the Trans-Himalayan family, in particular Rgyalrongic and Kiranti. It is …

Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-
Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba …

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 …

This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha, a Sino-
Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14,000 speakers in …

Tibetan is attested from the mid seventh century CE, when the nascent Tibetan Empire
began to imitate the Chinese fashion of recording contemporary political events. The written …

Since the beginning of research on the PTB verb agreement, 2nd person marking has posed
a persistent problem. Every scholar who has dealt with the problem reconstructs a set of …

In this paper, the first detailed description of the two causative derivations in Japhug
Rgyalrong is presented, based on a corpus of spontaneous speech. Two new pathways of …

In Kiranti languages, rich alternations in verbal paradigms make internal reconstruction
possible, and allow a better understanding of the vowels and codas of the proto-language …

This paper shows that both Tibetan and Old Chinese preserve lexicalized traces of several
nominalization prefixes which are still productive in morphologically more conservative …

The paper presents the first complete reconstruction of the Old Tibetan (OT) verb
morphology and semantics. Old Tibetan had a productive verb inflection with meaningful …