Although there is only one ergative language in Europe (Basque), perhaps one-quarter of
the world's languages show ergative properties, and pose considerable difficulties for many …

At the earliest reconstructable stage of the development of the Sino-Tibetan (ST) language
family, possibly as much as 6,000 years ago (Thurgood 1994), 1 the protolanguage was …

Kurtöp is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 15,000 people in
Northeastern Bhutan. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language …

The bulk of this dissertation is an analysis of grammatical relations (including syntactic,
pragmatic, and semantic relations) in Modern Mandarin Chinese. In Chapter I the …

The paradigm of verbal morphology in Kathmandu Newar involves a binary opposition of
two sets of forms, the so-called conjunct/disjunct system. However, in its distributional …

Daai Chin belongs to the Southern branch of the Kuki-Naga section of the Tibeto-Burman
language family. It is spoken by approximately 45,000 people in the townships of Mindat …

The terms “(clause) chaining” and “converbal constructions” are used for the classification of
similar types of clause linkage. Chaining is generally used for constructions which do not …

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 …

Kurtop, an East Bodish language of Bhutan, uses case markers for a variety of functions.
Like many Tibeto-Burman languages, Kurtop evidences an ergative whose functions extend …

This paper presents part of the resulls of an on-going project on comparative Tibeto-Burman
morphosyntax using a database of one hundred seventy languages, the goal of which is to …