10 search hits
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The copula and existential verbs in Qiang
(2007)
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Randy J. LaPolla
Chenglong Huang
- This paper discusses the copula and existential verb constructions in Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Sichuan, China.
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Sino-Tibetan languages
(2006)
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Randy J. LaPolla
- The Sino-Tibetan (ST) language family includes the Sinitic languages (what for political reasons are known as Chinese ‘dialects’) and the 200 to 300 Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages. Geographically it stretches from Northeast India, Burma, Bangladesh, and northern Thailand in the southeast, throughout the Tibetan plateau to the north, across most of China and up to the Korean border in the northeast, and down to Taiwan and Hainan Island in the southeast. The family has come to be the way it is because of multiple migrations, often into areas where other languages were spoken (LaPolla, 2001).
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Wang Li (1900-1986)
(2006)
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Randy J. LaPolla
- Wang Li (Wang Liaoyi) was one of the three most prominent linguists in China in the 20th century. He was born August 10, 1900, in what is now Bobai County of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Area.
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Chao Yuen Ren (1892–1982)
(2005)
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Randy J. LaPolla
- Y. R. Chao is easily the most famous linguist to have come out of China. Born before the end of the last dynasty in China, he received a traditional Confucian education, but was also one of the first Chinese people to be sent to the West for training in modern Western science (under the Boxer Indemnity Fund). The remarkable breadth and scope of his studies included physics, mathematics, linguistics, musical and literary composition, and translation, and he was a pioneer in many of these fields.
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Adjectives in Qiang
(2004)
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Randy J. LaPolla
Chenglong Huang
- Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by 70,000-80,000 people in Northern Sichuan Province, China, classified as being in the Qiang or Tibetan nationality by the Chinese government. The language is verb final, agglutinative (prefixing and suffixing), and has both head-marking and dependent-marking morphology.
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Evidentiality in Qiang
(2003)
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Randy J. LaPolla
- The Qiang language is spoken by about 70,000 (out of 200,000) Qiang people, plus 50,000 people classified as Tibetan by the Chinese government. Most Qiang speakers live in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau in the mountainous northwest part of Sichuan Province, China. The Qiang language is a member of the Qiangic branch of the Tibeto-Burman family of the Sino-Tibetan stock. Within Tibeto-Burman, a number oflanguages show evidence of evidential systems, but these systems cannot be reconstructed to any great time depth. The data used in this chapter is from Ranghang Village, Chibusu District, Mao County in Aba Prefecture.
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An overview of Sino-Tibetan morphosyntax
(2003)
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Randy J. LaPolla
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Qiang
(2003)
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Randy J. LaPolla
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The role of migration and language contact in the development of the Sino-Tibetan language family
(2001)
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Randy J. LaPolla
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Variable finals in proto-Sino-Tibetan
(1994)
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Randy J. LaPolla
- This paper concentrates on variable finals, and argues that just as we find a certain amount of both rule-governed and non-rule governed variation in modern languages, in reconstructing Proto-Sino-Tibetan we should recognize the possibility of these types of variation.
