Title: Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman : system and philosophy of Sino-Tibetan reconstruction /
Authors: Matisoff, James A.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Proto-Tibeto-Burman language Phonology, Historical.; Tibeto-Burman languages Phonology, Comparative Sino-Tibetan.; Sino-Tibetan languages Phonology, Comparative Tibeto-Burman.; Proto-Tibeto-Burman language Syllabication.; Proto-Tibeto-Burman language Etymology.; Reconstruction (Linguistics); Comparative linguistics.
Contents: Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The PTB syllable canon -- Ch. 3. Initial consonants -- Ch. 4. Prefixes -- Ch. 5. Rhymes: monophthongs and diphthongs -- Ch. 6. Closed rhymes and the role of vowel length -- Ch. 7. Final nasals -- Ch. 8. Final stops -- Ch. 9. Final liquids -- Ch. 10. Root-final *-s -- Ch. 11. Suffixes -- Ch. 12. Allofamic Variation in Rhymes -- Ch. 13. Conclusion -- App. A. A Concise Introduction to Old Chinese Phonology / Zev J. Handel -- App. B. Karlgren's Transcriptional Conventions / Richard S. Cook and Zev J. Handel -- Index I. Index of Proto-Forms -- Index II. Index of Proto-Root-Syllables -- Index III. Index of Proto-Glosses -- Index IV. Index of Chinese Characters -- Index V. TB Languages, Dialects, and Subgroupings -- Index VI. Index of Proper Names.