Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area: The state of the art. Papers presented to Paul K. Benedict for his 71st birthday
Creators: name: Thurgood, Graham (Ed.)
name: Matisoff, James (Ed.)
name: Bradley, David (Ed.)
Publisher: name: Pacific Linguistics
Year: 1985

description: C-87
description: Contents iiiPacific Linguistics Introduction viGENERAL INTRODUCTIONS 1 {Graham Thurgood}. Benedict's work: past and present 1-15 {James A. Matisoff}. Paul K. Benedict - an appreciation 16-20 {James A. Matisoff}. New directions in East and Southeast Asian linguistics 21-35 {Paul K. Benedict}. Autobiographical note 36-52 Publications of Paul K. Benedict, 1939-1982 53-57I. PREHISTORIC CIS-YANGTZEANA AND OUTSIDE INFLUENCE ON CHINESE [LINGUISTIC PREHISTORY AND LANGUAGE CONTACT] 58 {Ballard, William L.}. The linguistic history of South China: Miao-Yao and southern dialects 58-84 {Norman, Jerry}. A note on the origin of the Chinese duodenary cycle 85-89 {Hashimoto, Mantaro J.}. The interaction of segments and tones in the Be language 90-93 {Haudricourt, André-Georges}. Du nouveau sur le Bê 94-95II. EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN AREAL PHENOMENA 96 {Egerod, Søren}. Typological features in Akha 96-104 {Sprigg, R.K.}. Alphabet or syllabary in South East Asia: 'new wine into old bottles' 105-115 {Gedney, William J.}. Confronting the unknown: tonal splits and the genealogy of Tai-Kadai 116-124 {Court, Christopher}. Observations on some cases of tone sandhi 125-137 {Henderson, Eugenie J.A.}. Greenberg's "universals" again: a note on the case of Karen 138-140 {Huffman, Franklin E.}. Vowel permutations in Austroasiatic languages 141-145III. SINO-TIBETAN HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY 146 {Bodman, Nicholas C.}. Evidence for l and r medials in Old Chinese and associated problems 146-167 {Yang, Paul Fu-mien}. Initial consonant cluster KL- in modern Chinese dialects and Proto-Chinese 168-179 {Bradley, David}. Arakanese vowels 180-200 {Mazaudon, Martine}. Proto-Tibeto-Burman as a two-tone language? Some evidence from Proto-Tamang and Proto-Karen 201-229 {Nishida, Tatsuo}. The Hsihsia, Lolo, and Moso languages 230-241 {Baxter, William H. III}. Tibeto-Burman cognates of Old Chinese *ij and *ɨj 242-263IV. SYNCHRONIC GRAMMAR 264 {Lehman, F.K.}. On quantifier floating in Lushai and Burmese, with some remarks on Thai 264-278 {Löffler, Lorenz G.}. A preliminary report on the Paangkhua language 279-286 {Hansson, Inga-Lill}. Verb concatenation in Akha 287-309 {Li, Charles N. and Sandra A. Thompson}. Perfectivity in Mandarin 310-323V. HISTORICAL GRAMMAR 324 {Becker, Alton L.}. Person in Austro-Thai: comments on the pronoun paradigm in Benedict's Austro-Thai language and culture 324-333 {Mei Tsu-lin}. Some examples of prenasals and *s- nasals in Sino-Tibetan 334-343 {Schüssler, A.}. The function of gusheng in early Zhou Chinese 344-362 {Michailovsky, Boyd}. Tibeto-Burman dental suffixes: evidence from Limbu (Nepal) 363-375 {Thurgood, Graham}. Pronouns, verb agreement systems, and the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman 376-400 {Wheatley, Julian K.}. The decline of verb-final syntax in the Yi (Lolo) languages of southwestern China 401-420VI. LEXICON AND SEMANTICS 421 {Matisoff, James A.}. Out on a limb: arm, hand, and wing in Sino-Tibetan 421-450 {Nagano, Yasuhiko}. Preliminary notes on gLo-skad (Mustang Tibetan) 451-462 {Nguyễn Đình-hoà}. Some archaic Vietnamese words in Nguyễn Trãi's poems 463-473%BACK 474BIBLIOGRAPHY 474-498