Review of "藏语词族研究 A study on word families in Tibetan"
Unlike Classical Indo-European languages like Greek and Sanskrit, whose morphology is well understood in spite of their intricate complexity, the morphology of Sino-Tibetan languages is still poorly studied, even for a major literary language such as Tibetan. This sad state of affairs is due i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177705 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Unlike Classical Indo-European languages like Greek and Sanskrit, whose
morphology is well understood in spite of their intricate complexity, the
morphology of Sino-Tibetan languages is still poorly studied, even for a major
literary language such as Tibetan. This sad state of affairs is due in part to the fact
that the languages whose historical phonology is best studied, Chinese and Lolo Burmese, have poorly preserved Proto-Sino-Tibetan morphology. |
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