Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact?

This paper is an attempt to apply insights and methodologies from Nichols (1996) to help us resolve problems in determining genetic relatedness among Sino-Tibetan languages and in our efforts at reconstructing protolanguages of different time depths. The results from the application of Nichols’s...

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Main Author:	LaPolla, Randy J.
Other Authors:	Bickel, Balthasar
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English
Published:	John Benjamins 2021
Subjects:	Humanities::Linguistics Tibeto-Burman Languages History
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145890
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-1458902021-01-13T07:57:55Z Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? LaPolla, Randy J. Bickel, Balthasar Grenoble, Lenore A. Peterson, David A. Timberlake, Alan School of Humanities Humanities::Linguistics Tibeto-Burman Languages History This paper is an attempt to apply insights and methodologies from Nichols (1996) to help us resolve problems in determining genetic relatedness among Sino-Tibetan languages and in our efforts at reconstructing protolanguages of different time depths. The results from the application of Nichols’s methodology are explained with reference to what we know about the migrations of the Sino-Tibetan peoples. 2021-01-13T07:26:48Z 2021-01-13T07:26:48Z 2013 Book Chapter LaPolla, R. J. (2013). Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact? In B. Bickel, L. A. Grenoble, D. A. Peterson, & A. Timberlake (Eds.), Language Typology and Historical Contingency (pp. 463-474). doi:10.1075/tsl.104.21lap 978-9-02-720685-5 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145890 10.1075/tsl.104.21lap 463 474 en Language Typology and Historical Contingency © 2013 John Benjamins Publishing Company. All rights reserved. John Benjamins
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description	This paper is an attempt to apply insights and methodologies from Nichols (1996) to help us resolve problems in determining genetic relatedness among Sino-Tibetan languages and in our efforts at reconstructing protolanguages of different time depths. The results from the application of Nichols’s methodology are explained with reference to what we know about the migrations of the Sino-Tibetan peoples.
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title	Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact?
title_short	Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact?
title_full	Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact?
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Subgrouping in Tibeto-Burman : can an individual-identifying standard be developed? How do we factor in the history of migrations and language contact?

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