R K Sprigg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 201839 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R K Sprigg |
| PRENOMES | R K |
| SOBRENOME | Sprigg |
| ASSINATURA | SPRIGG R K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1954 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A tonal analysis of Gurung, with separate systems for register and contour pitch features
The Gurung language made itsBulletindébut in 1955 with an article by Burton-Page: 'Two studies in Gurungkura: I. tone; II. rhotacization and retroflexion' (BSOAS, 17/1, 1955, 111ff.). Since tone is the subject of one of these studies, it might seem that there would be little point in adding a further study of that same topic, important though it is; but a different dialect can lead to a considerable difference in the appearance of Gurung phonolog…
Controversy in the tonal analysis of Tibetan
Tonemade its appearance in descriptions of Tibetan pronunciation as early as 1881, when Jäschke introduced the term into an account of the prosodic features of the spoken Tibetan dialects: 'A system of tones has been introduced. ... I am told by European students of reputation, who have made the Tonic languages of eastern Asia their special department, that only the first principles of what are known as thehigh and low Tones, have made their way …
The root finals of Bantawa Rai verbs, and the congruence of phonology with grammar and lexis
The meaning of texts is dealt with by a dispersal of analysis at mutually congruent series of levels, beginning with contexts of situation and proceeding throughcollocation, syntax (includingcolligation) to phonology and phonetics⃜ Stylistics with some notice of phonaesthetic features, lexicography and the place and use of translation are to be included to complete the spectrum' (Firth, 1957: 30
Hooker's expenses in Sikkim
Some years ago I received from the India Office Library a xerox copy of a short document found at Kew among the papers of Sir Joseph Hooker, with an inquiry as to whether it was a permit for him to travel in Sikkim for the botanical research described in hisHimalayan Journals(1854/1905). I knew enough Lepcha to be able to report to the India Office Library that the 42 lines of Lepcha script (romanized and translated at (II) below) were some sort …
Vocalic alternation’ in the Balti, the Lhasa, and the Sherpa verb, as a guide to alternations in Written Tibetan, and to Proto-Tibetan Reconstruction
In Sino-Tibetan (1972) P. K. Benedict has offered two different accounts of the significance, for Tibeto-Burman (TB) and Sino-Tibetan (ST) reconstruction, of the three types of ‘vocalic alternation’ in the Written Tibetan (WT) verb, a/a/o, e/a/o and o/a/o . His original account ( c. 1942–3) reads: ‘Tibetan, however, shows a puzzling type of vocalic alternation in its verbs, in which stems in a regularly take o in the imperative and often either o…
Vowel harmony in noun-and-particle words in the Tibetan of Baltistan
In an earlier study, 'Assimilation, and the definite nominal particle in Balti Tibetan' (Sprigg, 1972), I dealt with vowel harmony in words in which the noun is colligated with the definite nominal particle, a particle that has the constant phonetic form po when in junction with the final syllable of a noun ending in a consonant (-Cpo), e.g. smenpo 'the medicine' sman, but variable phonetic features where the final syllable of the noun ends in a …
The Golok Dialect and Written Tibetan past-tense verb forms
Tibetan orthography looks phonetically challenging, to say the least; and one may well wonder whether such tongue-twisting combinations as thebrjofbrjes, theblt-ofbltas, or thebst-ofbstanever did twist a Tibetan tongue, or whether the significance of these and other such orthographic forms might not have been morphophonemic in origin, with the lettersr, l, and s in the syllable initial of forms such as these serving to associate these past-tense …
Phonation types
The Eighth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Leeds, 1975) provided an opportunity, at a discussion seminar called specially for that purpose, ‘The larynx and language’, for phoneticians anxious to put phonation distinctions on a more systematic footing to appeal to specialists in the aerodynamic aspects of laryngal activity and in the physiology of the larynx to help them with criteria to define the phonation distinctions so far observ…
The lexical item as a phonetic entity
‘“... there is more near-ambiguity in language than it is always convenient to admit”; and in studying stress and juncture it would be especially valuable, in order to avoid too great a reliance either on introspection or on artificially contrived confrontations, to make a collection of ambiguities in action in the form of fully-documented instances of uncertainty of interpretation or of actual misunderstanding‘ (Sharp, 1960: 112–13)
A Polysystemic Approach, in Proto-Tibetan reconstruction, to tone and syllable-initial consonant clusters
In an earlier article (Sprigg, 1963b) I drew on Burmese, with only a few examples from certain Tibetan dialects (Lhasa, Sherpa), to advocate applying prosodic analysis, the name commonly given to the polysystemic type of phonological analysis devised by J. R. Firth, to the languages of the TibetoBurman group for purposes of comparison and reconstruction; since then I have had an opportunity of studying two typologically different Tibetan dialects…
The Lepchas
Vowel harmony in Lhasa Tibetan
In his phonemic analysis of Lhasa Tibetan in Love songs of the sixth Dalai Lama Jaw Yuanrenn (Y. R. Chao) notices 'variations' of some of the phonemes, and ascribes some of these 'variations' to differences in tempo or to chance: of the phoneme that he writes as 'e' he says ' i, 10 3 khrel gzhung tş'ilcuῃtş'ilcuŋ' [it may sometimes change to l, e.g. in song 10, line 3, khrel gzhung tş'cuῃ is pronounced tş'ilcuῃ]; of the phoneme 'a', 'ә 1 2 lam bu…
Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan-III
There is one important respect in which әW differs from yW and wW. For these last it was sufficient to state exponents of ' y ' and ' w '; the exponents of ' ә ' however can be stated only by introducing a further prosodic system, of the initial syllable, y/w, i.e. ' y neutral words ' (yәW) and ' w neutral words ' (wәW). The prosodic and phonematic systems of yәW resemble those stated above for the initial syllable of yW, and those of wәW resembl…
Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan-II
Part I concluded with the suggestion that certain general-phonetic features, those of rounding and spreading, and those of vowel closure, might profitably be given a prosodic statement for the word as a whole, as:-I. a 3-term system: y/w/әII. a 2-term system: o/cA given word might thus be assigned to a prosodic category, to the ' y ', the ' w ', or the ' ә ' term, and treated as a ' y word ', ' w word ', or ' neutral word ' (yW, wW, әW). Similarl…
Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan-I
This article is based on a study of selected utterances in ' Lhasa Tibetan' (LT) as spoken by Mr. Rigẖdzin dBaṅpo (R.) in a particular style (' speaking style '). The term LT is used for the class-dialect spoken by members of the sku-drag class in Lhasa and elsewhere, and also by other Tibetans who associate with members of this class. R.'s utterances may be considered in terms of three styles, ' spelling style ', ' reading style ', and ' speakin…
The Golok Dialect and Written Tibetan past-tense verb forms
Tibetan orthography looks phonetically challenging, to say the least; and one may well wonder whether such tongue-twisting combinations as thebrjofbrjes, theblt-ofbltas, or thebst-ofbstanever did twist a Tibetan tongue, or whether the significance of these and other such orthographic forms might not have been morphophonemic in origin, with the lettersr, l, and s in the syllable initial of forms such as these serving to associate these past-tense …
Vowel harmony in Lhasa Tibetan
In his phonemic analysis of Lhasa Tibetan in Love songs of the sixth Dalai Lama Jaw Yuanrenn (Y. R. Chao) notices 'variations' of some of the phonemes, and ascribes some of these 'variations' to differences in tempo or to chance: of the phoneme that he writes as 'e' he says ' i, 10 3 khrel gzhung tş'ilcuῃtş'ilcuŋ' [it may sometimes change to l, e.g. in song 10, line 3, khrel gzhung tş'cuῃ is pronounced tş'ilcuῃ]; of the phoneme 'a', 'ә 1 2 lam bu…
Vowel harmony in noun-and-particle words in the Tibetan of Baltistan
In an earlier study, 'Assimilation, and the definite nominal particle in Balti Tibetan' (Sprigg, 1972), I dealt with vowel harmony in words in which the noun is colligated with the definite nominal particle, a particle that has the constant phonetic form po when in junction with the final syllable of a noun ending in a consonant (-Cpo), e.g. smenpo 'the medicine' sman, but variable phonetic features where the final syllable of the noun ends in a …
Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan-I
This article is based on a study of selected utterances in ' Lhasa Tibetan' (LT) as spoken by Mr. Rigẖdzin dBaṅpo (R.) in a particular style (' speaking style '). The term LT is used for the class-dialect spoken by members of the sku-drag class in Lhasa and elsewhere, and also by other Tibetans who associate with members of this class. R.'s utterances may be considered in terms of three styles, ' spelling style ', ' reading style ', and ' speakin…
A tonal analysis of Gurung, with separate systems for register and contour pitch features
The Gurung language made itsBulletindébut in 1955 with an article by Burton-Page: 'Two studies in Gurungkura: I. tone; II. rhotacization and retroflexion' (BSOAS, 17/1, 1955, 111ff.). Since tone is the subject of one of these studies, it might seem that there would be little point in adding a further study of that same topic, important though it is; but a different dialect can lead to a considerable difference in the appearance of Gurung phonolog…
Controversy in the tonal analysis of Tibetan
Tonemade its appearance in descriptions of Tibetan pronunciation as early as 1881, when Jäschke introduced the term into an account of the prosodic features of the spoken Tibetan dialects: 'A system of tones has been introduced. ... I am told by European students of reputation, who have made the Tonic languages of eastern Asia their special department, that only the first principles of what are known as thehigh and low Tones, have made their way …
The root finals of Bantawa Rai verbs, and the congruence of phonology with grammar and lexis
The meaning of texts is dealt with by a dispersal of analysis at mutually congruent series of levels, beginning with contexts of situation and proceeding throughcollocation, syntax (includingcolligation) to phonology and phonetics⃜ Stylistics with some notice of phonaesthetic features, lexicography and the place and use of translation are to be included to complete the spectrum' (Firth, 1957: 30
Phonation types
The Eighth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Leeds, 1975) provided an opportunity, at a discussion seminar called specially for that purpose, ‘The larynx and language’, for phoneticians anxious to put phonation distinctions on a more systematic footing to appeal to specialists in the aerodynamic aspects of laryngal activity and in the physiology of the larynx to help them with criteria to define the phonation distinctions so far observ…
Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan-III
There is one important respect in which әW differs from yW and wW. For these last it was sufficient to state exponents of ' y ' and ' w '; the exponents of ' ә ' however can be stated only by introducing a further prosodic system, of the initial syllable, y/w, i.e. ' y neutral words ' (yәW) and ' w neutral words ' (wәW). The prosodic and phonematic systems of yәW resemble those stated above for the initial syllable of yW, and those of wәW resembl…
Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan-II
Part I concluded with the suggestion that certain general-phonetic features, those of rounding and spreading, and those of vowel closure, might profitably be given a prosodic statement for the word as a whole, as:-I. a 3-term system: y/w/әII. a 2-term system: o/cA given word might thus be assigned to a prosodic category, to the ' y ', the ' w ', or the ' ә ' term, and treated as a ' y word ', ' w word ', or ' neutral word ' (yW, wW, әW). Similarl…
Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan-III
There is one important respect in which әW differs from yW and wW. For these last it was sufficient to state exponents of ' y ' and ' w '; the exponents of ' ә ' however can be stated only by introducing a further prosodic system, of the initial syllable, y/w, i.e. ' y neutral words ' (yәW) and ' w neutral words ' (wәW). The prosodic and phonematic systems of yәW resemble those stated above for the initial syllable of yW, and those of wәW resembl…
Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan-II
Part I concluded with the suggestion that certain general-phonetic features, those of rounding and spreading, and those of vowel closure, might profitably be given a prosodic statement for the word as a whole, as:-I. a 3-term system: y/w/әII. a 2-term system: o/cA given word might thus be assigned to a prosodic category, to the ' y ', the ' w ', or the ' ә ' term, and treated as a ' y word ', ' w word ', or ' neutral word ' (yW, wW, әW). Similarl…
Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan-I
This article is based on a study of selected utterances in ' Lhasa Tibetan' (LT) as spoken by Mr. Rigẖdzin dBaṅpo (R.) in a particular style (' speaking style '). The term LT is used for the class-dialect spoken by members of the sku-drag class in Lhasa and elsewhere, and also by other Tibetans who associate with members of this class. R.'s utterances may be considered in terms of three styles, ' spelling style ', ' reading style ', and ' speakin…
Vowel harmony in Lhasa Tibetan
In his phonemic analysis of Lhasa Tibetan in Love songs of the sixth Dalai Lama Jaw Yuanrenn (Y. R. Chao) notices 'variations' of some of the phonemes, and ascribes some of these 'variations' to differences in tempo or to chance: of the phoneme that he writes as 'e' he says ' i, 10 3 khrel gzhung tş'ilcuῃtş'ilcuŋ' [it may sometimes change to l, e.g. in song 10, line 3, khrel gzhung tş'cuῃ is pronounced tş'ilcuῃ]; of the phoneme 'a', 'ә 1 2 lam bu…
The Lepchas
A Polysystemic Approach, in Proto-Tibetan reconstruction, to tone and syllable-initial consonant clusters
In an earlier article (Sprigg, 1963b) I drew on Burmese, with only a few examples from certain Tibetan dialects (Lhasa, Sherpa), to advocate applying prosodic analysis, the name commonly given to the polysystemic type of phonological analysis devised by J. R. Firth, to the languages of the TibetoBurman group for purposes of comparison and reconstruction; since then I have had an opportunity of studying two typologically different Tibetan dialects…
The lexical item as a phonetic entity
‘“... there is more near-ambiguity in language than it is always convenient to admit”; and in studying stress and juncture it would be especially valuable, in order to avoid too great a reliance either on introspection or on artificially contrived confrontations, to make a collection of ambiguities in action in the form of fully-documented instances of uncertainty of interpretation or of actual misunderstanding‘ (Sharp, 1960: 112–13)
Phonation types
The Eighth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Leeds, 1975) provided an opportunity, at a discussion seminar called specially for that purpose, ‘The larynx and language’, for phoneticians anxious to put phonation distinctions on a more systematic footing to appeal to specialists in the aerodynamic aspects of laryngal activity and in the physiology of the larynx to help them with criteria to define the phonation distinctions so far observ…
The Golok Dialect and Written Tibetan past-tense verb forms
Tibetan orthography looks phonetically challenging, to say the least; and one may well wonder whether such tongue-twisting combinations as thebrjofbrjes, theblt-ofbltas, or thebst-ofbstanever did twist a Tibetan tongue, or whether the significance of these and other such orthographic forms might not have been morphophonemic in origin, with the lettersr, l, and s in the syllable initial of forms such as these serving to associate these past-tense …
Vocalic alternation’ in the Balti, the Lhasa, and the Sherpa verb, as a guide to alternations in Written Tibetan, and to Proto-Tibetan Reconstruction
In Sino-Tibetan (1972) P. K. Benedict has offered two different accounts of the significance, for Tibeto-Burman (TB) and Sino-Tibetan (ST) reconstruction, of the three types of ‘vocalic alternation’ in the Written Tibetan (WT) verb, a/a/o, e/a/o and o/a/o . His original account ( c. 1942–3) reads: ‘Tibetan, however, shows a puzzling type of vocalic alternation in its verbs, in which stems in a regularly take o in the imperative and often either o…
Vowel harmony in noun-and-particle words in the Tibetan of Baltistan
In an earlier study, 'Assimilation, and the definite nominal particle in Balti Tibetan' (Sprigg, 1972), I dealt with vowel harmony in words in which the noun is colligated with the definite nominal particle, a particle that has the constant phonetic form po when in junction with the final syllable of a noun ending in a consonant (-Cpo), e.g. smenpo 'the medicine' sman, but variable phonetic features where the final syllable of the noun ends in a …
Hooker's expenses in Sikkim
Some years ago I received from the India Office Library a xerox copy of a short document found at Kew among the papers of Sir Joseph Hooker, with an inquiry as to whether it was a permit for him to travel in Sikkim for the botanical research described in hisHimalayan Journals(1854/1905). I knew enough Lepcha to be able to report to the India Office Library that the 42 lines of Lepcha script (romanized and translated at (II) below) were some sort …
The root finals of Bantawa Rai verbs, and the congruence of phonology with grammar and lexis
The meaning of texts is dealt with by a dispersal of analysis at mutually congruent series of levels, beginning with contexts of situation and proceeding throughcollocation, syntax (includingcolligation) to phonology and phonetics⃜ Stylistics with some notice of phonaesthetic features, lexicography and the place and use of translation are to be included to complete the spectrum' (Firth, 1957: 30
Controversy in the tonal analysis of Tibetan
Tonemade its appearance in descriptions of Tibetan pronunciation as early as 1881, when Jäschke introduced the term into an account of the prosodic features of the spoken Tibetan dialects: 'A system of tones has been introduced. ... I am told by European students of reputation, who have made the Tonic languages of eastern Asia their special department, that only the first principles of what are known as thehigh and low Tones, have made their way …
A tonal analysis of Gurung, with separate systems for register and contour pitch features
The Gurung language made itsBulletindébut in 1955 with an article by Burton-Page: 'Two studies in Gurungkura: I. tone; II. rhotacization and retroflexion' (BSOAS, 17/1, 1955, 111ff.). Since tone is the subject of one of these studies, it might seem that there would be little point in adding a further study of that same topic, important though it is; but a different dialect can lead to a considerable difference in the appearance of Gurung phonolog…
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