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AVANCES 922 de PÓRTICO LIBRERÍAS 29 de agosto de 2008 www.porticolibrerias.es Responsable de la Sección: Pilar Aguirre Dirige: José Miguel Alcrudo ESTUDIOS ASIÁTICOS 24 001 Abramson, M. S.: Ethnic Identity in Tang China 2007 – 296 pp. € 52,00 002 Ali, R. A., ed.: Encyclopedia of Pakistan, 11 vols. 2008 – 3.373 pp., lám. col. € 1100,00 003 Alleton, V.: L’écriture chinoise. Le défi de la modernité 2008 – 236 pp. € 19,76 004 Andrade, T.: How Taiwan Became Chinese. Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century 2008 – 294 pp. € 50,00 005 Balikci, A.: Lamas, Shamans and Ancestors. Village Religion in Sikkim 2008 – 400 pp. € 103,00 INDICE: 1. The Setting: Introduction — Perspectives on the past — The hidden land and its supernatural population — Village religion: ritual of illness — The shamans — 2. The Land: The land, its workers, harvests and rituals — The land, its problems and ritual solutions — 3. 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    STLS-2016 University of Washington 10 September 2016 East Bodish reconstructions in a comparative light1 Gwendolyn Hyslop The University of Sydney [email protected] 1. Introduction 2. Overview of East Bodish 3. Pronouns 4. Crops 5. Body parts 6. Animals 7. Natural world 8. Material culture 9. Numerals 10. Verbs 11. Summary & Conclusions 1. Introduction 1.1. Aims • Present latest East Bodish (EB) reconstructions • Separate EB retentions from innovations • Compare EB with Tibetan, Tangut, Qiangic, rGyalrongic, Nungic, Burmish, to o aid the reconstruction as appropriate; and o possibly identify shared EB/Tibetic innovations; and o ultimately forward our understanding of the placement of EB and Tibeto-Burman2 phylogeny more broadly 1.2. Data and methodology • Tibetan: as cited • Tangut (STEDT 3.1) • Qiangic (STEDT 3.2) • rGyalrongic (STEDT 3.3) • Nungic (STEDT 4) • Burmish = Nisoic = Lolo-Burmese (STEDT 6 Lolo-Burmese-Naxi) • Note that I am not consistently accepting the proposed PTB reconstructions and their proposed reflexes (to be refined later); rather, I am using them as a guiding point to consider possible relationships. • I only list potential cognates. A ‘-’ indicates that no potential cognate was found (either because no word was reported or the words found were too different to be included here) 1 This work has been funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP140103937). I am also grateful to the Dzongkha Development Commission in Bhutan, for supporting this research, and to Karma Tshering and Sonam Deki for helping to collect the data that have contributed to the reconstructions. 2 I am using the term Tibeto-Burman here to be interchangeable with Sino-Tibetan or Trans-Himalayan and do not mean to make any claims about the groupings within the family.
  • Tone in Bodish Languages: Typological and Sociolinguistic Contributions

    Tone in Bodish Languages: Typological and Sociolinguistic Contributions

    Tone in Bodish languages: Typological and sociolinguistic contributions Kristine A. Hildebrandt 1. Introduction: The challenge of Bodish prosodic systems The prosodic systems of Bodish Tibeto-Burman (TB) languages of Nepal present many challenges to our understanding of the phonological profiles of Sino-Tibetan (ST) languages, and to languages of South and Southeast Asia in general.1 This paper aims to highlight some interesting supraseg- mental properties in several Bodish languages, and the ways that tone and the Tone Bearing Unit (TBU) in these languages contribute to their loca- tion in a typologically distinct sub-area between greater South and South- east Asia. The proposed location of Bodish languages in a “buffer zone” (cf. Stilo 2005 for Northwest Iran as a typological buffer zone between Arabic-type and Indic-type areas) is not new here; rather, this account gives additional, phonological, evidence for such a proposal. At the same time, a deeper understanding of Bodish prosodic properties is complicated by sociolinguistic variables affecting the realization of tone, including gender, bilingual contact, and formal education. Therefore, an- other aim of this paper is to synthesize the ways in which these sociolin- guistic variables have enriched previous studies, and how an optimal ac- count of a language’s phonology is one that recognizes how synchronic sub-systems and mechanisms of diachronic change align with different components of the speaker community. The organization of this paper reflects the diversity of the goals. In Sec- tion 2 I provide an overview of the tonal properties of a number of Bodish TB languages of Nepal and how these properties necessarily complicate an idea of mainly syllabic tone systems in ST languages.