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Direct linkKonnerth, Linda Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Karbi is a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken by half a million people in the Karbi Anglong district in Assam, Northeast India, and surrounding areas in the extended Brahmaputra Valley area. It is an agglutinating, verb-final language. This dissertation offers a description of the dialect spoken in the hills of the Karbi Anglong district. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Grammar, Geographic Regions
Peer reviewedCheng, Chin-Chuan – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Language and Linguistic Studies, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 20-21, 1972. Work supported in part by the Research Board of the Graduate College and by the Center for Asian Studies, both at the University of Illinois. (VM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Computers, Dialects
Allan, Edward Jay – 1973
A detailed grammar of Buem, one of the Togo-Remnant Languages spoken in Ghana's Volta region, describes the major structures and many minor structures occurring in informal and semi-formal speech. The phonetics and much of the phonology are described in taxonomic terms, and the vowel harmony system, syntax, and morphology are described in a…
Descriptors: African Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Developing Nations, Dialects
Peer reviewedCoblin, W. South – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1986
The rhyming practices of Sima Xiangru and Wang Bao, early and mid-western Han poets of the Shu area, reveal details about the finals of their languages. Comparisons are made of similarities and differences of their dialects to that of a later compatriot, Yang Xiong. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics
Download full textPayne, David, Ed. – Notes on Linguistics, 1996
The four 1996 issues of this journal contain the following articles: "Sketch of Autosegmental Tonology" (H. Andrew Black); "System Relationships in Assessing Dialect Intelligibility" (Margaret Milliken, Stuart Milliken); "A Step-by-Step Introduction to Government and Binding Theory of Syntax" (Cheryl A. Black);…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Computer Software, Conferences, Dialects
Defense Language Inst., Washington, DC. – 1964
This seven-volume series constitutes the Defense Language Institute (Army Language School) 47-week course in the Toishan dialect of Cantonese. Beginning lessons present the tone and sound system in romanized script. Chinese characters are introduced in the fourth lesson. (See related document AL 001 479, "Chinese Cantonese Basic Course,"…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Cantonese, Chinese Culture, Dialects
Ho, Dah-an, Ed.; Tseng, Chiu-yu, Ed. – 1994
This publication of proceedings, most in English and some in Chinese, of a conference on Chinese languages and linguistics include the following papers: "On Rule Effect and Dialect Classification" (Chin-Chuan Cheng); "Cross-Linguistic Typological Variation, Grammatical Relations, and the Chinese Language" (Bernard Comrie);…
Descriptors: Affixes, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
