H L Shorto
Biographic Data
| ID | 246154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H L Shorto |
| GIVEN NAMES | H L |
| FAMILY NAME | Shorto |
| SIGNATURE | SHORTO H L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Professor Eugenie J. A. Henderson: A personal note
South-East Asia forty five years ago, with more than a hundred languages of six distinct stocks, only a handful of which had been even passably described, offered an unparalleled opportunity to linguistic inquiry. In opening up this field Eugénie Henderson, who died aged 74 on 27 July 1989, was the acknowledged leader in this country and widely respected outside it
Professor Emeritus Walter Simon
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The affinities of Kuy
The appearance of substantial dictionaries of Kuy and Bruu, both compiled by native speakers under the auspices of the Indigenous Languages of Thailand Research Project (Sriwises, 1978; Thongkum and Puengpa, 1980), allows us to observe a significant measure of agreement between the lexicons of these two Mon-Khmer languages. There is a good deal of similarity also between their phonological systems, notably in respect of the vowels
Proto-Austronesian *taqən: An Anomaly Removed
In BSOAS, XXXVIII, 1, 1975, at p. 92 I noted the anomaly in the Achinese and Mainland reflexes of the PAN base reconstructed by Dyen as *[tT]ahan: Ach. thön, töhön 'to endure', Cham tha:n 'to draw back, restrain', Röglai that 'to set [trap]', which imply rather *-q-. Dyen's *-h- rested on the comparison of Malay tahan 'to restrain, to endure strain, to set [traps]' with Tagalog tahán 'cessation', Samar-Leyte Bisayan táhan 'to detain', Bikol táhan…
Achinese And Mainland Austronesian
Achinese and the Austronesian languages spoken on the South-East Asian mainland ('Chamic') are known to have borrowed numerous words from Mon-Khmer and to show other effects of Mon-Khmer contact. Systematic comparison especially of their historico-phonological peculiarities makes it appear that they are closely related, irrespective of this, within Austronesian. Such a postulated relationship is at variance with the findings of lexicostatistics. …
Three Mon-Khmer word families
If one examines the vocabulary of almost any Mon-Khmer language, and turns to words with an initial labial semivowel-or those derived from roots with such an initial-one is immediately struck by the number of words with meanings of the order of 'round, circular', 'to go round', 'to put round, coil, wrap round', 'enclosure', 'to turn round, return', and the like. Thus, consulting three relatively modest lexica, we can cite from (modern) Mon in the…
Mon labial clusters
In this paper I seek to show that proto-Mon-Khmer *p as the second element in an initial cluster normally developed in Mon to -w-, and that *b underwent the same development accompanied by voicing of the initial consonant where this was a plosive. The point, as a contribution to Mon-Khmer phonology, is a minor one; but it has consequences of some importance for morphological reconstruction
Burmese supernaturalism: A study in the explanation and reduction of suffering. By Melford F. Spiro. (Prentice-Hall College Anthropology Series.) pp. x, 300. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1967. [Di…
Burmese supernaturalism: a study in the explanation and reduction of suffering. By Melford F. Spiro. (Prentice-Hall College Anthropology Series.) pp. x, 300. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1967. [Distributed in G.B. by Prentice-Hall International. 46s., paper-bound 37s.] - Volume 100 Issue 1
Sir Richard Winstedt
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The dewatau sotapan: A Mon prototype of the 37 nats
In the literature which has grown up around the Burmese tradition of the 37 nats two omissions have been generally conspicuous. Much has been placed on record regarding the cults of individual members of this pantheon; yet what constitutes the corporate cult of the 37 remains obscure. In casting around for a unifying principle, writers on the subject have made much of the secular status of the persons who became nats and the manner of their death…
Language and Culture
The Devata Plaques of the Ananda Basement
The interpretation of archaic writing systems
Bibliographies of Mon-Khmer and Tai Linguistics
A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon
The 32 Myos in the Medival Mon Kingdom
He hunted the valley till it was midday. Moreover, there were with him two-and-thirty crowned kings, his vassals at that time. Not for the joy of hunting did the emperor hunt with them so long, but because he had been made a man of such high dignity that he was lord over all those kings.'The dream of Macsen Wledig'That the three provinces which constituted Rāmaññadesa, the Mon kingdom in Lower Burma, were divided into 32 townships is one of those…
Sprachenatlas des Indopazifischen raumes
Word and Syllable Patterns in Palaung
The Palaungs, called by themselves Ta-ang, are an ethnic group speaking a language of Northern Mon-Khmer type, distributed widely in the Shan State of Burma and the adjacent border regions of Yunnan, and having its greatest concentration in the former state of Tawngpeng in the northwestern part of the Shan State, where Palaungs are a majority in the population. Occupied chiefly in growing and trading in tea, they are at the same time the most pro…
The Kyaikmaraw Inscriptions
The two inscriptions which are the subject of this article are preserved in the vestibule of the Kyaikmaraw image shrine in the village of that name, which lies on the Ataran 11 miles south-east of Moulmein. That to the left of the entrance (Kyaikmaraw I) records a dedication of land to the shrine by the ruling queen of Pegu, Bañā Thau (Shin Sawbu), in A.D. 1455, and is thus the earliest dated Middle Mon inscription as well as the only one assign…
Notes on Mon Epigraphy
In the notes here published an attempt is made to explore some of the peculiar linguistic problems involved in the interpretation of epigraphic texts. As a subject for study these have certain advantages for the linguist: the material on which he bases his conclusions is, at any given time, complete, reducing the chances of his being afterwards confronted with evidence which he has overlooked; its nature limits the directions which his inquiries …
The 32 Myos in the Medival Mon Kingdom
He hunted the valley till it was midday. Moreover, there were with him two-and-thirty crowned kings, his vassals at that time. Not for the joy of hunting did the emperor hunt with them so long, but because he had been made a man of such high dignity that he was lord over all those kings.'The dream of Macsen Wledig'That the three provinces which constituted Rāmaññadesa, the Mon kingdom in Lower Burma, were divided into 32 townships is one of those…
The dewatau sotapan: A Mon prototype of the 37 nats
In the literature which has grown up around the Burmese tradition of the 37 nats two omissions have been generally conspicuous. Much has been placed on record regarding the cults of individual members of this pantheon; yet what constitutes the corporate cult of the 37 remains obscure. In casting around for a unifying principle, writers on the subject have made much of the secular status of the persons who became nats and the manner of their death…
Achinese And Mainland Austronesian
Achinese and the Austronesian languages spoken on the South-East Asian mainland ('Chamic') are known to have borrowed numerous words from Mon-Khmer and to show other effects of Mon-Khmer contact. Systematic comparison especially of their historico-phonological peculiarities makes it appear that they are closely related, irrespective of this, within Austronesian. Such a postulated relationship is at variance with the findings of lexicostatistics. …
Proto-Austronesian *taqən: An Anomaly Removed
In BSOAS, XXXVIII, 1, 1975, at p. 92 I noted the anomaly in the Achinese and Mainland reflexes of the PAN base reconstructed by Dyen as *[tT]ahan: Ach. thön, töhön 'to endure', Cham tha:n 'to draw back, restrain', Röglai that 'to set [trap]', which imply rather *-q-. Dyen's *-h- rested on the comparison of Malay tahan 'to restrain, to endure strain, to set [traps]' with Tagalog tahán 'cessation', Samar-Leyte Bisayan táhan 'to detain', Bikol táhan…
Sprachenatlas des Indopazifischen raumes
Three Mon-Khmer word families
If one examines the vocabulary of almost any Mon-Khmer language, and turns to words with an initial labial semivowel-or those derived from roots with such an initial-one is immediately struck by the number of words with meanings of the order of 'round, circular', 'to go round', 'to put round, coil, wrap round', 'enclosure', 'to turn round, return', and the like. Thus, consulting three relatively modest lexica, we can cite from (modern) Mon in the…
Mon labial clusters
In this paper I seek to show that proto-Mon-Khmer *p as the second element in an initial cluster normally developed in Mon to -w-, and that *b underwent the same development accompanied by voicing of the initial consonant where this was a plosive. The point, as a contribution to Mon-Khmer phonology, is a minor one; but it has consequences of some importance for morphological reconstruction
Word and Syllable Patterns in Palaung
The Palaungs, called by themselves Ta-ang, are an ethnic group speaking a language of Northern Mon-Khmer type, distributed widely in the Shan State of Burma and the adjacent border regions of Yunnan, and having its greatest concentration in the former state of Tawngpeng in the northwestern part of the Shan State, where Palaungs are a majority in the population. Occupied chiefly in growing and trading in tea, they are at the same time the most pro…
Notes on Mon Epigraphy
In the notes here published an attempt is made to explore some of the peculiar linguistic problems involved in the interpretation of epigraphic texts. As a subject for study these have certain advantages for the linguist: the material on which he bases his conclusions is, at any given time, complete, reducing the chances of his being afterwards confronted with evidence which he has overlooked; its nature limits the directions which his inquiries …
The Kyaikmaraw Inscriptions
The two inscriptions which are the subject of this article are preserved in the vestibule of the Kyaikmaraw image shrine in the village of that name, which lies on the Ataran 11 miles south-east of Moulmein. That to the left of the entrance (Kyaikmaraw I) records a dedication of land to the shrine by the ruling queen of Pegu, Bañā Thau (Shin Sawbu), in A.D. 1455, and is thus the earliest dated Middle Mon inscription as well as the only one assign…
Word and Syllable Patterns in Palaung
The Palaungs, called by themselves Ta-ang, are an ethnic group speaking a language of Northern Mon-Khmer type, distributed widely in the Shan State of Burma and the adjacent border regions of Yunnan, and having its greatest concentration in the former state of Tawngpeng in the northwestern part of the Shan State, where Palaungs are a majority in the population. Occupied chiefly in growing and trading in tea, they are at the same time the most pro…
Sprachenatlas des Indopazifischen raumes
The 32 Myos in the Medival Mon Kingdom
He hunted the valley till it was midday. Moreover, there were with him two-and-thirty crowned kings, his vassals at that time. Not for the joy of hunting did the emperor hunt with them so long, but because he had been made a man of such high dignity that he was lord over all those kings.'The dream of Macsen Wledig'That the three provinces which constituted Rāmaññadesa, the Mon kingdom in Lower Burma, were divided into 32 townships is one of those…
A Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon
The interpretation of archaic writing systems
Bibliographies of Mon-Khmer and Tai Linguistics
The Devata Plaques of the Ananda Basement
Sir Richard Winstedt
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The dewatau sotapan: A Mon prototype of the 37 nats
In the literature which has grown up around the Burmese tradition of the 37 nats two omissions have been generally conspicuous. Much has been placed on record regarding the cults of individual members of this pantheon; yet what constitutes the corporate cult of the 37 remains obscure. In casting around for a unifying principle, writers on the subject have made much of the secular status of the persons who became nats and the manner of their death…
Language and Culture
Burmese supernaturalism: A study in the explanation and reduction of suffering. By Melford F. Spiro. (Prentice-Hall College Anthropology Series.) pp. x, 300. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1967. [Di…
Burmese supernaturalism: a study in the explanation and reduction of suffering. By Melford F. Spiro. (Prentice-Hall College Anthropology Series.) pp. x, 300. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1967. [Distributed in G.B. by Prentice-Hall International. 46s., paper-bound 37s.] - Volume 100 Issue 1
Mon labial clusters
In this paper I seek to show that proto-Mon-Khmer *p as the second element in an initial cluster normally developed in Mon to -w-, and that *b underwent the same development accompanied by voicing of the initial consonant where this was a plosive. The point, as a contribution to Mon-Khmer phonology, is a minor one; but it has consequences of some importance for morphological reconstruction
Three Mon-Khmer word families
If one examines the vocabulary of almost any Mon-Khmer language, and turns to words with an initial labial semivowel-or those derived from roots with such an initial-one is immediately struck by the number of words with meanings of the order of 'round, circular', 'to go round', 'to put round, coil, wrap round', 'enclosure', 'to turn round, return', and the like. Thus, consulting three relatively modest lexica, we can cite from (modern) Mon in the…
Achinese And Mainland Austronesian
Achinese and the Austronesian languages spoken on the South-East Asian mainland ('Chamic') are known to have borrowed numerous words from Mon-Khmer and to show other effects of Mon-Khmer contact. Systematic comparison especially of their historico-phonological peculiarities makes it appear that they are closely related, irrespective of this, within Austronesian. Such a postulated relationship is at variance with the findings of lexicostatistics. …
Proto-Austronesian *taqən: An Anomaly Removed
In BSOAS, XXXVIII, 1, 1975, at p. 92 I noted the anomaly in the Achinese and Mainland reflexes of the PAN base reconstructed by Dyen as *[tT]ahan: Ach. thön, töhön 'to endure', Cham tha:n 'to draw back, restrain', Röglai that 'to set [trap]', which imply rather *-q-. Dyen's *-h- rested on the comparison of Malay tahan 'to restrain, to endure strain, to set [traps]' with Tagalog tahán 'cessation', Samar-Leyte Bisayan táhan 'to detain', Bikol táhan…
Professor Emeritus Walter Simon
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The affinities of Kuy
The appearance of substantial dictionaries of Kuy and Bruu, both compiled by native speakers under the auspices of the Indigenous Languages of Thailand Research Project (Sriwises, 1978; Thongkum and Puengpa, 1980), allows us to observe a significant measure of agreement between the lexicons of these two Mon-Khmer languages. There is a good deal of similarity also between their phonological systems, notably in respect of the vowels
Professor Eugenie J. A. Henderson: A personal note
South-East Asia forty five years ago, with more than a hundred languages of six distinct stocks, only a handful of which had been even passably described, offered an unparalleled opportunity to linguistic inquiry. In opening up this field Eugénie Henderson, who died aged 74 on 27 July 1989, was the acknowledged leader in this country and widely respected outside it
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