Medieval Tibeto-BurmanLanguages IV; TABLE OF CONTENTS; 0. INTRODUCTION; 1. WHEN DID MIDDLE MON BEGIN?; 2. ASPIRATION IN THE BURMESE PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM: A DIACHRONIC ACCOUNT; 3. TWO LEPCHA DELÚK TEXTS; 4. HIGHLIGHTS IN THE DECIPHERMENT OF THE NAM LANGUAGE; 5. A PRELIMINARY REASSESSMENT OF THE PYU FACES OF THE MYAZEDI INSCRIPTIONS AT PAGAN1; 6. RE-ANALYSIS OF "TANGUT-TIBETAN" PHONOLOGICAL MATERIALS; 7. VERBS OF EXISTENCE IN TANGUT AND MU-NYA; 8. THE TANGUT KINSHIP SYSTEM IN QIANGIC PERSPECTIVE1 Guillaume JACQUES (CNRS, CRLAO) and 9. NOTES ON THE PREDICATIVE PERSONAL SUFFIXES OF THE TANGUT LANGUAGE10. THE CHÁN TEACHING OF NÁNYÁNG HUÌZHŌNG ( -775) IN TANGUT TRANSLATION; 11. FEATURES OF THE TANGUT CONSONANT SYSTEM AS REFLECTED IN SANSKRIT-TANGUT TRANSLITERATIONS; 12. TIBETAN PALATALIZATION AND THE GY VERSUS G.Y DISTINCTION; 13. A NOTE ON THE THEME AND THE AUTHOR OF PT 239 RECTO; 14. THE ORIGIN OF THE HEADLESS SCRIPT(DBU MED) IN TIBET; 15. ORTHOGRAPHY OF TRADITIONAL YI WRITING:CONVENTIONS OF SIGN USEIN THE RITUAL SCRIPTURES OF THE YI1.
Summary
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.
