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Autor:
Randy J. LaPolla
Publikováno v:
Languages, Vol 9, Iss 4, p 135 (2024)
This article responds to a conference call for papers that makes universalist assumptions about clause structures, assuming all languages in the world basically follow the same organizing principles in terms of clause structure, argument structure, a
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https://doaj.org/article/f219359040ba4fb183b86d605b258b26
Autor:
Rik De Busser, Randy J. LaPolla
Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languag
Autor:
Randy J. LaPolla, Chenglong Huang
This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic b
Autor:
Randy J. LaPolla
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American Oriental Society. 136
This article discusses issues of scholarship and methodology in Sino-Tibetan linguistics in the context of reviewing the cutting-edge articles included in the recent Festschrift for W. South Coblin.
Autor:
Randy J. LaPolla
Publikováno v:
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 42:143-147
This short note discusses the origin and development of the use of the term “pronomenalisation” (pronominalization) in Sino-Tibetan linguistics, pointing out that the concept was originally a typological one, and that the phenomenon was seen as t
Autor:
Randy J. LaPolla
The comparative study of unrelated languages did not begin with Joseph Greenberg in the 1960’s, but began more than 150 years earlier in Europe with scholars of the Romanticist movement. The most prominent of these scholars was the German scholar W
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::c34fb85988486cff70acb2a9822da332
https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152669
https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152669
Autor:
Randy J. LaPolla
Publikováno v:
Nature. 569:45-47
A robust computational approach with added finesse provides evidence to support the view that the Sino-Tibetan languages arose in northern China and began to split into branches about 5,900 years ago. This language family originated in China in the Y
Autor:
Randy J. LaPolla
Publikováno v:
Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 39:282-297
There have been challenges to the received view of the structure of the Sino-Tibetan language family. This is all well and good, as we should constantly challenge our most basic assumptions. In this paper I look at the arguments presented with a view