The term “Tibetic” has been used in the recent past by some authors in different ways to refer
to various intermediate levels of classification within Tibeto-Burman (eg Matisoff 2003 …

Despite the importance of Old Tibetan in the Tibeto‐Burman language family, little research
has treated Old Tibetan synchronic phonology. This article gives a complete overview of the …

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 …

Scholars of Indo-European historical linguistics have long found it convenient to refer to well
known sound changes by the name of the researcher who first noticed the correspondences …

Aspirated fricatives are typologically uncommon sounds, only found in a handful of
languages. This paper studies the diachronic pathways leading to the creation of aspirated …

Cette étude vise à fournir une description détaillée de l'évidentialité en anglais dans une
approche contrastive avec le tibétain. Elle repose sur un corpus spécialement recueilli au …

This is a reconstruction of Proto-Ersuic, the ancestor language of Lizu, Tosu, and Ersu, three
closely related languages spoken in southwestern Sichuan which are generally considered …

A recent paper on the prehistory of the Tibetan verbal system by Guillaume Jacques (2012),
in keeping with many previous authorities, presents Tibetan verbs as occurring in pairs, with …

Abstract The high-altitude Hindu Kush–Karakoram region is home to more than 50 language
communities, belonging to six phylogenies. The significance of this region as a linguistic …

This paper presents a full procedure for the development of a segmented, POS-tagged and
chunk-parsed corpus of Old Tibetan. As an extremely low-resource language, Old Tibetan …