{"title":"Deictic expressions in Darma (Almora)","authors":"Christina Willis Oko","doi":"10.1075/LTBA.38.1.02WIL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LTBA.38.1.02WIL","url":null,"abstract":"This paper provides a description of the morphological composition and syntactic distribution of the spatial deictic system found in Darma a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Uttarakhand, India. The description is informed by existing typologies of deictics and demonstratives (e.g. Levinson 1983; Diessel 1999, 2013; Senft 2004) with an eye towards identifying similar patterns in other Tibeto-Burman languages. In Darma, we find that the deictic roots can be meaningfully categorized into two groups based on the scale of reference: a distance-based scale (e.g. near and far), and a direction-based scale (e.g. up and down). These deictic roots combine with other morphemes to form sets of demonstratives that are categorized as Demonstrative Pronouns, Demonstrative Adverbs, and Demonstrative Quantifiers. In addition to the morphological structure of deictic elements, this paper explores the syntactic distribution of the deictic roots and combined demonstrative forms and suggests that a set of determiners is in the process of grammaticalizing. The discussion is geared towards contrasting the typology of demonstrative systems with the data attested in Darma and emphasizing topics that should be described in grammars of Tibeto-Burman languages.","PeriodicalId":41542,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area","volume":"38 1","pages":"26-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LTBA.38.1.02WIL","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58994617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strata of standardization: The Phong Nha dialect of Vietnamese (Quảng Bình Province) in historical perspective","authors":"Alexis Michaud, Michel Ferlus, Minh-Chau Nguyen","doi":"10.1075/LTBA.38.1.04MIC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LTBA.38.1.04MIC","url":null,"abstract":"The present research, based on first-hand data, is intended as a contribution to the study of the present-day diversity of lesser-described Vietnamese dialects, and of the range of evolutionary paths to which they testify. The Vietnamese dialect of the hamlet of Phong Nha (commune of Sơn Trạch, county of Bố Trạch, Quảng Binh) is one of the “heterodox” dialects of Vietnamese, which are known to present considerable interest for the historical study of Vietnamese and of the Vietic group at large. These dialects are the product of the southerly expansion of Vietnamese over related (Vietic) languages, a process which involved various interferences. Comparative evidence reveals strata of standardization: some words are phonologically identical to Standard Vietnamese; others are of Southern Vietic stock, as demonstrated by the absence of telltale historical changes that took place in Vietnamese, such as the spirantization of medial stops; still others appear to be the result of hybridization.","PeriodicalId":41542,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area","volume":"39 1","pages":"124-162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LTBA.38.1.04MIC","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58995336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of 'A grammar of Pumi' by Picus Ding","authors":"Guillaume Jacques","doi":"10.1075/LTBA.38.2.10JAC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LTBA.38.2.10JAC","url":null,"abstract":"The year 2014 saw the completion of two important monographs on Pumi: the book under review (Ding 2014) and Daudey (2014a)’s dissertation, defended at LaTrobe University. These two typologically-informed and corpus-based grammars represent a welcome improvement over previous descriptions of Pumi (Fu 1998 and Lu 2001) which were essentially based on elicited sentences. While the scope of these two grammars is similar, they are by no means redundant, since they describe quite distinct varieties of Northern Pumi, and are based on different text corpora. The book under review is partially based on the author’s PhD dissertation (Ding 1998 – incidentally also defended at LaTrobe University under D. Bradley). It represents however a considerable improvement over Ding’s previous work on several accounts.","PeriodicalId":41542,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area","volume":"38 1","pages":"319-323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LTBA.38.2.10JAC","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58995606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clause linking in Japhug","authors":"Guillaume Jacques","doi":"10.1075/LTBA.37.2.05JAC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LTBA.37.2.05JAC","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a detailed description of clause linking in Japhug, based on a corpus of traditional narratives and conversations. It follows the methodology used in Dixon and Aikhenvald’s (2009) collective book on this topic, to ease crosslinguistic comparisons. Although Japhug has a very rich system of converbs, there is not a single meaning that requires a non-finite form: all subtypes of clause linking can be expressed exclusively with finite verb forms, and these indeed predominate in our corpus.","PeriodicalId":41542,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area","volume":"37 1","pages":"264-328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58994486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Duoxu Language and the Ersu-Lizu-Duoxu relationship","authors":"Katia Chirkova","doi":"10.1075/LTBA.37.1.04CHI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LTBA.37.1.04CHI","url":null,"abstract":"Duoxu is a terminally endangered and virtually undescribed Tibeto-Burman language, spoken in the historically multi-ethnic and multi-lingual Miǎnning county of Sichuān province in the People’s Republic of China. Until recently, Duoxu was known only through a 740-word vocabulary list in the Sino-Tibetan vocabularies Xīfān Yiyǔ [Tibetan-Chinese bilingual glossary], recorded in Chinese and Tibetan transcriptions in the 18th century, and a grammatical sketch (Huang & Yǐn 2012). Researchers who have worked on the language (Nishida 1973, Sūn 1982, Huang & Yǐn 2012) have expressed different views about the features and the genetic position of Duoxu, variously viewing it as (1) closely related to Lolo-Burmese languages (Nishida 1973), (2) closely related to Ersu and Lizu, two neighboring languages that are currently classified as members of the Qiangic subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman language family (Sūn 1982), or (3) distantly related to those two languages and to Qiangic languages at large (Huang & Yǐn 2012).The Duoxu language is critically endangered and urgently requires documentation. It is of great value for our understanding of the linguistic diversity of the region, and of its linguistic history. It is also of great value as a modern reflection of a language that was recorded in the 18th century. This paper makes a significant contribution in all these areas. Based on new fieldwork with all remaining elderly Duoxu speakers, this study provides newly collected data and a new analysis. It compares the newly collected data with the 18th-century attestations of Duoxu as well as with its two putative sister languages Ersu and Lizu. The conclusion of the study is that Duoxu is closely related to Ersu and Lizu, with superficial differences attributed to long-standing and on-going contact influence from Southwestern Mandarin.","PeriodicalId":41542,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area","volume":"37 1","pages":"104-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LTBA.37.1.04CHI","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58994828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a new approach to evidentiality: Issues and directions for research","authors":"Nicolas Tournadre, R. Lapolla","doi":"10.1075/LTBA.37.2.04TOU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LTBA.37.2.04TOU","url":null,"abstract":"Evidentiality is often defined as the grammatical means of expressing information source. This paper argues for a broader definition of evidentials, as close work documenting languages has shown that simply saying evidentials mark source of information does not capture all of the actual uses of evidential marking. The paper discusses other aspects that need to be taken account of in any full discussion of the use of evidential marking, in particular the speaker’s access to information (not just source), plus the subjective strategy or perspective of the speaker in representing a particular state of affairs. The notion of ‘source’ in this paper is used in a restricted sense to mean primarily a verbal source of information (reported information) and is distinguished from ‘access’, which refers to the non-verbal access to information (sensory, inferential, etc., including the sensory access to verbal source) available to the speaker, though marking of source and access may appear together. Given this distinction the paper proposes a new definition of evidential marking: the representation of source and access to information according to the speaker’s perspective and strategy.","PeriodicalId":41542,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area","volume":"37 1","pages":"240-263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LTBA.37.2.04TOU","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58994419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Volition and control in Wǎdū Pǔmǐ","authors":"Henriëtte Daudey","doi":"10.1075/LTBA.37.1.03DAU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LTBA.37.1.03DAU","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I will argue that verb inflection in the Wǎdū variety of Pǔmǐ is not based on actor-agreement or person-number agreement as has been attested for several other Pǔmǐ varieties, but is based rather on pragmatic notions of volition and control that tie in with evidentiality and egophoricity, similar to that reported for Tibetan dialects.","PeriodicalId":41542,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area","volume":"37 1","pages":"75-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58993997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The reflexes of the Proto-Jingpho glides in modern Jingpho dialects","authors":"Keita Kurabe","doi":"10.1075/LTBA.37.2.02KUR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LTBA.37.2.02KUR","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is two-fold: (i) to investigate the reflexes of the Proto-Jingpho initial glides in modern Jingpho dialects based on sound correspondences between them; and (ii) to discuss vowel developments conditioned by proto-glides. The main findings of this paper can be summarized as follows: (a) the proto-initial *w- has developed into y- in Standard Jingpho and Nkhum before proto-front vowels; (b) the proto-initial *ʔw- before proto-front vowels became ʔy- in Standard Jingpho, Nkhum and Gauri, but disappeared in Duleng, Dingga, Numphuk and Turung; (c) the proto-initial *ʔw- and *ʔy- before non-front vowels have developed into w- and y-, respectively, in Duleng, Dingga, Numphuk and Turung; (d) the proto-bilabial glides, *w- and *ʔw-, sporadically raised the following vowel *-a to -o in Gauri; (e) the proto-palatal glides, *y- and *ʔy-, raised and fronted the following vowel *-a to -e in Gauri and partially in Numphuk and Turung; (f) the proto-medial *-y- raised the following vowel *-e to -i in Dingga.","PeriodicalId":41542,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area","volume":"37 1","pages":"181-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LTBA.37.2.02KUR","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58994657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnolinguistic survey of westernmost Arunachal Pradesh: A fieldworker’s impressions","authors":"T. Bodt","doi":"10.1075/LTBA.37.2.03BOD","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LTBA.37.2.03BOD","url":null,"abstract":"The area between Bhutan in the west, Tibet in the north, the Kameng river in the east and Assam in the south is home to at least six distinct phyla of the Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman, Sino-Tibetan) language family. These phyla encompass a minimum of 11, but probably 15 or even more mutually unintelligible languages, all showing considerable internal dialect variation. Previous literature provided largely incomplete or incorrect accounts of these phyla. Based on recent field research, this article discusses in detail the several languages of four phyla whose speakers are included in the Monpa Scheduled Tribe, providing the most accurate speaker data, geographical distribution, internal variation and degree of endangerment. The article also provides some insights into the historical background of the area and the impact this has had on the distribution of the ethnolinguistic groups.","PeriodicalId":41542,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area","volume":"37 1","pages":"198-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LTBA.37.2.03BOD","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58994712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A phonology and lexicon of the Yonghe variety of Qiang","authors":"Nathaniel A. Sims","doi":"10.1075/LTBA.37.1.02SIM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/LTBA.37.1.02SIM","url":null,"abstract":"Yonghe, a variety of Qiang (Tibeto-Burman, China) has never been described in the literature. This paper is the first publication specifically about the Yonghe variety. This variety is interesting in that it has a rather simplified segmental phonology, but has not undergone tonogenesis. This paper also appends a lexicon which will be useful for future reconstructive and comparative work on Qiang varieties.","PeriodicalId":41542,"journal":{"name":"Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area","volume":"37 1","pages":"34-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1075/LTBA.37.1.02SIM","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58993986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}