Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV -

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Résumé :
While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model....

Biographie:
Nathan W. Hill, Ph.D. (2009), Harvard University, is senior lector in Tibetan at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published extensively on Tibetan and Tibeto-Burman historical linguistics including A Lexicon of Tibetan Verb Stems as Reported by the Grammatical Tradition (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010).

Sommaire:
While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model. The volume includes six papers on Tangut, three on Tibetan and one each on the languages Mon, Burmese, Lepcha, Pyu, Nam, and Yi. Building a bridge between linguistic and literary research the range of studies treats phonology, decipherment, literature and religion....