Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

Description: Publisher’s Description: 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.
With papers by C. Bauer on Burmese and Mon, C. Beckwith on Old Tibetan syllable margins, B. Zeisler on Tibetan case marking, R. Yanson on Burmese historical phonology, G. Jacques on Tangut rimes, K. Iwasa on early Lolo manuscripts, V. Kasevich on the causative in Tibeto-Burman, and C. Beckwith on Old Tibetan and Old Chinese reconstruction.
With an extensive Introduction to theoretical problems of the linguistics of Tibeto-Burman and other East and Southeast Asian languages.

Table of Contents: Introduction: Toward a Tibeto-Burman Theory / Christopher I. Beckwith -- Reflections on Early Mon-Burmese Grammar / Christian Bauer -- The Sonority Sequencing Principle and Old Tibetan Syllable Margins / Christopher I. Beckwith -- The Tibetan Understanding of Karman: Some Problems of Tibetan Case Marking / Bettina Zeisler -- Notes on the Evolution of the Burmese Phonological System / Rudolf A. Yanson -- Essai de comparaison des rimes du Tangoute et du Rgyalrong / Guillaume Jacques -- Mamuteyi: Lolo Manuscript No. 6 (2) in the Library of the École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris / Kazue Iwasa -- The Category of Causative in Tibeto-Burman Languages and the Iconicity Principle / Vadim B. Kasevich -- Old Tibetan and the Dialects and Periodization of Old Chinese / Christopher I. Beckwith.