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 …

Sino-Tibetan is the second largest language family in the world. Recent linguistic and
genetic studies have traced its origin to Neolithic millet farmers in the Yellow River region of …

China's long history of alcoholic beverage production can be traced to the beginning of the
Neolithic period when feasting with such drinks became essential in ritual and political …

Abstract Sino-Tibetan (Trans-Himalayan) is one of the typologically most diverse language
families in the world, one of the few comprising all gradients of morphological complexity …

This work shows that the complement-taking verb 偽ŋjweH'pretend'in the Archaic Chinese
dialect of the Zuozhuan specifically selects nominalized complements in 者tɕaeX. It then …

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 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 …

While sound glosses from the Six Dynasties and early Tang provide direct evidence for
morphological alternations in Archaic Chinese, studies on the syntax of this language …

This paper uses Gyalrongic languages, a conservative branch of Sino-Tibetan, to illustrate a
new method to evaluate proto-language reconstructions in general historical linguistics and …

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