Abstract Linguists researching the Trans-Himalayan family do not have a self-perception as
working outside the mainstream of historical linguistics, but 'word families' and 'allofams' are …

Lamjung Yolmo is an isolated dialect of Yolmo, 1 a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in
Nepal. The Lamjung Yolmo speech community arrived in the hills of west Lamjung after …

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 …

Tibetan verbal morphology differs considerably from that of other Sino‐Tibetan languages.
Most of the vocalic and consonantal alternations observed in the verbal paradigms remain …

A first edition of the present synoptic grammar of the Bumthang language was published in
Dutch in 1995 as Een eerste grammaticale verkenning van het Bumthang, een taal van …

Coblin's law is one of the most important phonetic laws in Tibetan historical phonology. This
law was devised to explain alternations in the verbal system, but the present article shows …

This paper proposes that the labial causative prefixes found in various Trans-Himalayan
languages of North-Eastern India are not innovations as is generally assumed. Instead, it is …

A phonological profile of Cone Page 1 HAL Id: halshs-00632301 https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00632301v2
Preprint submitted on 1 Apr 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the …

On pre-Tibetan semi-vowels1 Page 1 On pre-Tibetan semi-vowels1 Guillaume Jacques CNRS,
Paris rgyalrongskad@gmail.com Abstract The present paper discusses the synchronic status …

Prior work has suggested that proto-Rma was a non-tonal language and that tonal varieties
underwent tonogenesis (Liú 1998, Evans 2001a-b). This paper re-examines the different …