Language documentation faces a persistent and pervasive problem: How much material is
enough to represent a language fully? How much text would we need to sample the full …

Cette thèse comporte deux volets complémentaires: d'une part, une description
phonologique et morphologique du rgyalrong zbu, langue du groupe rgyalronguique du …

This is a reference grammar of Munya, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the western
part of Sichuan province in China. The data that this thesis draws from were collected during …

Tangut, a mediaeval Qiangic language (Sino-Tibetan family) distinguishes three grades (d
ng). The traditional Sofronov-Gong reconstruction of this distinction postulates different …

This paper proposes an internal reconstruction of the vowel system of Pre-Khroskyabs by
analysing bound state apophony in modern Siyuewu Khroskyabs. While most modern …

This dissertation investigates backness harmony in Uyghur (Turkic: China) from a variety of
methodological and analytical perspectives. Backness harmony is a phenomenon where …

This paper looks at the case of so-called neutral roots in Uyghur (Turkic: China), whose
idiosyncratic behavior with respect to the backness harmony system has been analyzed as …

Evans' 2006b recognition of a phonological opposition between plain and uvularized vowels
in the Hóngyán variety of Northwestern Rma was an important discovery for Rma linguistics …

In the Northern Horpa (NH) language of Sichuan, vowels are divided between plain and
pharyngealized sets, with the latter pronounced with auxiliary articulatory gestures involving …

This thesis investigates the verbal morphology of Lachirioag Zapotec, a Northern Zapotec
language from the town of San Cristóbal Lachirioag in Oaxaca, Mexico. There are two parts …