Proto-Kuki-Chin
Subtitle: a reconstructed ancestor of the Kuki-Chin languages
By: Kenneth VanBik
Series: STEDT monograph series -- 8; STEDT monograph series -- no. 8.
Publisher: Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus Project, Dept. of Linguistics research unit in University of California, Berkeley
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Berkeley, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780944613474
Subjects: Kuki-Chin languages; Phonology; Phonetics; Comparative and general Grammar
Description: This book represents a high-water mark in our understanding of the history of the Kuki-Chin branch of Tibeto-Burman. Nearly 1400 reconstructed cognate sets are presented, at various taxonomic levels: Proto-Kuki-Chin, Proto-Central-Chin, Proto-Northern-Chin, and Proto-Maraic. Special attention is paid to the subgrouping of this highly ramified family, based on the patterns of shared phonological innovations which the various languages display.
Notes: Revision of the author's dissertation (Ph.D--University of California, Berkeley, 2006).

Includes bibliographical references (p.593-598).