Tonogenesis in Northeastern Trans‐Himalayan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19063837 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathaniel A Sims (0000-0003-2456-5025, Department of Linguistics University of California Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 281-288 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-10 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Philological Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0079-1636 • E-ISSN: 1467-968X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-968x.12204 |
| OpenAlex | W3161068294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Tonogenesis is a topic of perennial interest in Trans‐Himalayan linguistics (the name of the family is the subject of some debate. Other terms for the family are Sino‐Tibetan and Tibeto‐Burman). The phonetic origins of the tones of the many languages in the family, such as Tibetan (Huáng 1995), Burmese (Nishi 1999; Hill 2019), and Chinese (Haudricourt 1954; Sagart 1999) are relatively well understood. However, the phonetic origins of tone in many Trans‐Himalayan languages remains an open question (Sagart 2006). There has been a paucity of work describing the origins of tone in the languages classified as belonging to the Qiangic subgroup of Trans‐Himalayan. This paper gives an account of tonogenesis in three tonal subgroups of Trans‐Himalayan languages: Rma (also called 羌 Qiāng (see Wang 1999 for a history of the terminology)) and Prinmi (also called 普米 Pǔmı̌), two modern subgroups, along with Tangut, a mediaeval Trans‐Himalayan language attested from 1042–1502 ce
Burmese · Etymology · Language family · Linguistics · Terminology · Computer Science · History · Language and cultural evolution · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |