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The Tapestry of Dolakha Newar: Chaining, Embedding, and the Complexity of Sentences
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In Dolakha Newar the boundaries of syntactic sentences are clearly demarcated. However, each tightly-bounded sentence has the potential for infinite expansion and structural complexity. This results from the recursive interaction of tw...
Publication · March 09, 2026
Training as Empowering Social Action: An Ethical Response to Language Endangerment
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A recent response to language endangerment has been the rise of training programs in language documentation and conservation. Here we consider the position of training activities within the sociology of language documentation and conser...
Publication · March 09, 2026
Tense-Aspect Morphology from Nominalizers in Newar
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This paper examines the historical status of tense-aspect suffixes in the Kathmandu Valley and Eastern branches of Newar. By comparing across branches and triangulating with Classical Newar, the paper demonstrates that the innovative pas...
Publication · March 09, 2026
Walking the Line: Balancing Description, Argumentation and Theory in Academic Grammar Writing
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This chapter explores how to incorporate linguistic typology, argumentation, and theoretical
innovation into a reference grammar. It provides recommendations on how to
produce a balanced grammar that is firmly grounded in theory, respons...
Publication · March 09, 2026
The Tibeto-Burman Languages of South Asia: The Languages, their Histories, and Genetic Relationships
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This survey is an introduction to the Tibeto-Burman languages of South Asia and their genetic classification; it is intended to be a brief but useful starting point for those seeking an overview and guide to the literature. The paper pr...
Publication · March 09, 2026
The {Grammatical} {Encoding} of {Space} in {Yonghe} {Qiang}
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Like other languages of the Western Sichuan linguistic area, the Yonghe variety of Qiang has robust grammatical systems for spatial concepts. Within the noun phrase, there are specialized locative casemarkers for different degrees of di...
Publication · March 09, 2026
Teaching Linguists to Document Endangered Languages
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Language documentation is a complex undertaking requiring varied technical and interpersonal skills, in addition to a strong foundation in linguistics. A full training program would include: immersion in the literature on language endang...
Publication · March 09, 2026
Grammatical Relations in Kubeo
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This paper describes a number of argument selectors for grammatical relations in Kubeo, an Eastern Tukanoan language spoken in the Vaupes River area in Northwestern Amazonia. The main selectors discussed in this paper are: verbal agreem...
Publication · March 09, 2026
Direction and Associated Motion in Tibeto-Burman
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This study analyzes systems of direction and associated motion in 23 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family. Both direction and associated motion can be encoded by a range of grammatical strategies, including affixes, clitics, particles,...
Publication · March 09, 2026
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