Welcome to the Sino-Tibetan language family page! Here you will find useful information regarding many of the Sino-Tibetan Languages.
Sinitic
Gan
Gan, Hakka and the Formation of Chinese Dialects (Sagart, 2002)
Analysis on the Semantic Evolution of Chinese Gan Dialect from the Perspective of Cognition (Xiao and Chen and Xiong, 2016)
Ditransitives in Three Gan Dialects: Valence-Increasing and Preposition Incorporation (Li and Wu, 2015)
Hakka
Gan, Hakka and the Formation of Chinese Dialects (Sagart, 2002)
Nanxiong and Hakka (Sagart, 2001)
On Hakka BUN: A Case of Polygrammaticalization (Lai, 2001)
Dapeng Dialect: An Undocumented Cantonese-Hakka Mixed Language in Southern China (Chen, 2016)
Jin
Vowels and Diphthongs in the Taiyuan Jin Chinese Dialect (Xia and Hu, 2016)
Mandarin
A Brief History of Mandarin (Coblin, 2000)
Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers’ Conceptions of Time (Boroditsky, 2001)
Adjectival Modification in Mandarin Chinese and Related Issues (Paul, 2005)
Classifiers as Count Syntax: Individuation and Measurement in the Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese (Li and Barner and Huang, 2008)
A Typological Study of Negation in Sinitic Languages: Synchronic and Diachronic Views (Chappelli and Peyraubei, 2016)
Min
Vowels and Diphthongs in Cangnan Southern Min Chinese Dialect (Hu and Ge, 2016)
The Zhongxian (中仙 ) Min Dialect: A Preliminary Study of Language Contact and Stratum-Formation (Zheng, 2008)
A Typological Study of Negation in Sinitic Languages: Synchronic and Diachronic Views (Chappelli and Peyraubei, 2016)
Wu
Phonetic Explanation for Initial and Tonal Evolution in Wu Dialects of Chinese (Cao, 2011)
The Role of Voice Quality in Shanghai Tone Perception (Gao and Hallé, 2015)
Consonant Effects on Tonal Registers in Jiashan Wu (Jianjing and Kuang, 2016)
Tonation in Three Chinese Wu Dialects (Rose, 2015)
A Typological Study of Negation in Sinitic Languages: Synchronic and Diachronic Views (Chappelli and Peyraubei, 2016)
Xiang
Tense/Aspect Markers in Mandarin and Xiang Dialects, and Their Contact (Zhou, 1998)
A Typological Study of Negation in Sinitic Languages: Synchronic and Diachronic Views (Chappelli and Peyraubei, 2016)
Yue
The Verb GIVE and Double-Object Construction in Cantonese in Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives (Chin, 2009)
A Typological Study of Negation in Sinitic Languages: Synchronic and Diachronic Views (Chappelli and Peyraubei, 2016)
A Reconstruction of Proto-Yue Vowels (Huang, 2009)
Dapeng Dialect: An Undocumented Cantonese-Hakka Mixed Language in Southern China (Chen, 2016)
Bai
Bai
The Aryepiglottic Folds and Voice Quality in the Yi and Bai Languages: Laryngoscopic Case Studies (Edmondson and Esling and Harris and Shaoni and Ziwo. 2001)
On the Genetic Position of the Bai Language (Feng, 2005)
Voice Quality and Voice Quality Change in the Bai Language of Yunnan Province (Edmondson and Shaoni, 1994)
Lolo-Burmese
Burmese
Word, Foot, and Syllable Structure in Burmese (Green, 2005)
Evolution of the Burmese Vowel System (Hill, 2012)
The Prosodic Structure of Burmese: A Constraint-Based Approach (Green, 1995)
An Articulatory, Acoustic, and Auditory Study of Burmese Tone (Gruber, 2011)
Loloish (Ngwi)(Yi)
Assessing the Linguistic Vitality of Miqie: An Endangered Ngwi (Loloish) Language of Yunnan, China (Gao, 2015)
Three Extreme Cases of Neutralisation: Nasality, Retroflexion and Lip-Rounding in Naxi (Michaud, 2006)
The Central and Southern Loloish Languages of Vietnam (Edmondson, 2002)
Puzzling Over Phula: Toward the Synthesis and Statement of a Sub-branch (Pelkey, 2005)
Nuosu
The Aryepiglottic Folds and Voice Quality in the Yi and Bai Languages: Laryngoscopic Case Studies (Edmondson and Esling and Harris and Shaoni and Ziwo. 2001)
Yi Future: Tense or Evidential? (Gerner, 2013)
An Acoustic Study of fricated Vowels in Nuosu Yi: An Exploratory Study (Perkins and Lee and Li and Liu, 2014)
An Acoustic Study on Glottalized Vowels in the Yi (Lolo) Language: A Preliminary Report (Dantsuji, 1982)
Qiangic
Naish
Approaching the Historical Phonology of Three Highly Eroded Sino-Tibetan Languages: Naxi, Na and Laze (Jacques and Michaud, 2011)
The Qiangic Subgroup from an Areal Perspective: A Case Study of Languages of Muli (Chirkova, 2012)
The Tone Patterns of Numeral-Plus-Classifier Phrases in Yongning Na: A Synchronic Description and Analysis (Michaud, 2013)
Rgyalrongic
Agreement morphology: the case of Rgyalrongic and Kiranti (Guillaume, 2012)
Parallelisms in the Verb Morphology of Sidaba rGyalrong and Lavrung in rGyalrongic (sun, 2000)
Stem Alternations in Puxi Verb Inflection: Toward Validating the rGyalrongic Subgroup in Qiangic (Sun, 2000)
Tujia
Tujia
Relative Clauses in Tujia (Xu, 2008)
Bodic
East Bodish
Synoptic Grammar of the Bumthang Language, a Language of the Central Bhutan Highlands (Van Driem, 2015)
On Ergativity in Bumthang (Donohue and Donohue, 2016)
Tshangla
Split Ergativity in Eastern Bhutanese Tshangla (MacMillan, 2013)
An Instrumental Analysis of Sharchhop Obstruents (Fulop and Dobrovolsky, 1999)
Expressing Uncertainty with Gisa in Tshangla (Bogal-Allbritten and Schardl, 2014)
Dakpa
Dzala and Dakpa Form a Coherent Subgroup Within East Bodish, and Some Related Thoughts (Van Driem, 2007)
On the Internal Phylogeny of East Bodish (Hyslop, 2013)
Kurtöp
A Grammar of Kurtöp (Hyslop, 2011)
On the Category of Speaker Expectation of Interlocutor Knowledge in Kurtop (Hyslop, 2014)
Mirativity in Kurtöp (Hyslop, 2011)
On the Internal Phylogeny of East Bodish (Hyslop, 2013)
Central Himalayish
Plurifunctionality in the Magar Nominalization System (Grunow-Hårsta, 2009)
Nominalizations in Bodic Languages (Noonan, 2008)
Observations on the Phonology of Gamāle Khām (Wilde, 2011)
A Phonological Comparison of Gamale, Sheram and Ghusbang–Three Kham Varieties (Wilde, 2017)
Western Himalayish
Nominalizations in Bodic Languages (Noonan, 2008)
Finite Verb Morphology in Kinnauri (Saxena, 1995)
The Interest of Zhangzhung for Comparative Tibeto-Burman (Matisoff, 2001)
Tibetic
Nominalizations in Bodic Languages (Noonan, 2008)
The Tibetic Languages and Their Classification (Tournadre, 2014)
Classical Tibetan (DeLancey, 2003)
Tone and Intonation: A Case Study in Two Tibetic Languages (Gawne and Teo and Baese-Berk, 2015)
Tamangic
Aspects of the Historical Development of Nominalizers in the Tamangic Languages (Noonan, 2011)
Some Observations on the Relationship Between Kaike and Tamangic (Honda, 2008)
Kiranti
Kiranti
Kiranti Languages: An Overview (Ebert, 2003)
Manner vs Place of Articulation in the Kiranti Initial Stops (Michailovsky, 1993)
First Person Objects, Antipassives, and the Political History of the Southern Kirant (Bickel and Gaenszle, 2015)
Nominalization and Focus Constructions in Some Kiranti Languages (Bickel, 1999)
Agreement morphology: the case of Rgyalrongic and Kiranti (Guillaume, 2012)
Nominalization in Himalayish Languages (Watters, 2006)
Yakkha
A Grammar of Yakkha (Schackow, 2014)
Kiranti Languages: An Overview (Ebert, 2003)
Newar
Newar
Classical Newar Verbal Morphology and Grammaticalization in Classical and Modern Newar (Kansākār, 2005)
Newar-Thangmi lexical correspondences and the linguistic classification of Thangmi (Turin, 2004)
Newari Language and Linguistics: Conspectus (Kansakar, 1981)