Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV

While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model. The volume includes six papers on Tangut, three on Tibetan and one each on the languages Mon, Burmese, Lepcha, Pyu, Nam, and Yi. Building a bridge between linguistic and literary research the range of studies treats phonology, decipherment, literature and religion.

0. Nathan W. HILL-Introduction
1. Christian BAUER-When Did Middle Mon Begin?
2. Rudolf A. YANSON-Aspiration in the Burmese Phonological System: A Diachronic Account
3. Heleen PLAISIER-Two Lepcha deluk Texts
4. IKEDA Takumi-Highlights in the Decipherment of the Nam Language
5. Uwe KRECH-A Preliminary Reassessment of the Pyu Faces of the Myazedi Inscriptions at Pagan
6. ARAKAWA Shintaro-Re-analysis of "Tangut-Tibetan" Phonological Materials
7. IKEDA Takumi-Verbs of Existence in Tangut and Mu-nya
8. Guillaume JACQUES-The Tangut Kinship System in Qiangic Perspective
9. NIE Hongyin-Notes on the Predicative Personal Suffixes of the Tangut Language
10. Kirill SOLONIN-The Chan Teaching of Nanyang Huizhong (-775) in Tangut Translation
11. SUN Bojun and Chung-pui TAI-Features of the Tangut Consonant System as Reflected in Sanskrit-Tangut Transliterations
12. Nathan W. HILL-Tibetan Palatalization and the gy versus g.y Distinction
13. ISHIKAWA Iwao-A Note on the Theme and the Author of PT 239 Recto 399
14. Sam VAN SCHAIK-The Origin of the Headless Script (dbu med) in Tibet
15. Halina WASILEWSKA-Orthography of Traditional Yi Writing: Conventions of Sign Use in the Ritual Scriptures of the Yi