The 41st International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics

Participants and Abstracts

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Keynote speakers

Professor Carol Genetti
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Barbara; Adjunct Professor, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
“Language documentation in the Sino-Tibetan context: towards an inclusive and collaborative model”

Professor James A Matisoff
Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
“‘Stung by a bee, you fear a fly’: areal and universal aspects of Lahu proverbial wisdom”

Dr Bill Baxter
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
"Old Chinese: the Baxter-Sagart Reconstruction, Version 0.98"

* paper to be presented as part of the Mediaeval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium IV on 17 September

Family name	Given name	Institution	Paper title with link to abstract
ARAKAWA	Shintaro	ILCAA, TUFS	Re-analysis of "Tangut-Tibetan" phonological materials *
BARTRAM	Cathy	SOAS	Pitch and register in Walungge
BAXTER	William	University of Michigan	Old Chinese: the Baxter-Sagart Reconstruction, Version 0.98
BAUER	Christian	Humboldt University	The Kalyani Sima revisited * Sources for a grammatical description of Early Modern Thai (17-18C)
BEDELL	George	Payap University	Agreement in Matu
BOGUSHEVSKAYA	Victoria	Moscow State University / Far-Eastern National University, Vladivostok	Semantics of Chinese Colour Terms: The NSM Theory Approach
BRADLEY	David	La Trobe	Birth-ordinal names in Lisu and Southeastern Tibeto-Burman
BREWER	Warren	Tamkang U, Tamsui, Taiwan	Mapping Taiwanese ‘bat (chiropteran)’
BURLING	Robbins	University of Michigan	[not presenting]
BUTTON	Christopher	SOAS	Double suffixation in reconstructed Northern Chin verbal alternations
CHAN + YANG	Catherine Ching Yee CHAN + Cathryn YANG	SIL	The Eka Language: A First Look
CHANG	Kuang-yu	National Tsing-hua University	Phonological Behaviour of Chinese Lateral Initials
CHANG + XU	Chang Ya-yin 张雅音 & Xu Xiao-Tian	Yuxi Normal University	Deriving Passive Construction in Hmong
CHANG, ZHU + CUI	Chang Ya-yin Zhu Yongqiang + Cui Lei	Yuxi Normal University	The Category of Postverbal Particles in Naxi and Grammaticalization
CHELLIAH	Shobhana	Uni of North Texas	Information flow in Manipuri: a pear story study
CHEN	Shu-Fen 陳淑芬	Department of Chinese Literature National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan	A Comparision of the Sanskrit Bhaisajyaguruvaiduryaprabharajasutra with its Four Chinese Translations
CHEN	Alex Yuan-hsiang	National Cheng Chi University, Taiwan	Southern Min Pre-a tone Sandhi in Optimality Theory
CHHANGTE	Lalnunthangi	Risa Colony, Shillong	Idu Mishmi
CHIANG	Min-hua	Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica	Forms of the plural suffixes of personal pronouns and demonstrative pronouns in Hakka dialects
CHIANG	Shih-Yin	National Tsing Hua University	On the asymmetrical syntax of the interrogative adverbial in Taiwanese Southern Min ‘antsuann’
CHIRKOVA	Katia	CNRS, Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale	Essential characteristics of Lizu and the Lizu-Ersu-Tosu relationship
DAI	Zhaoming	Heilongjiang University	Light Verbs in Tiantai
DEMPSEY	Jakob田雅客	Yuan-ze University, Taiwan 32003	Was there a J-Bomb? or was it just a few firecrackers?
DEVI	Pramodini	Manipur University	The perfective aspect -le in Meiteiron
DEVI	Nahakpam Aruna	Manipur University	Manipuri poetry: a linguistic analysis
DING	Picus Sizhi	University of Hong Kong	Sibling Terminology in Prinmi
DING + FERY	Picus Sizhi Ding Caroline Fery	University of Potsdam	Word Order, Information Structure and Intonation of Discontinuous Nominal Constructions in Cantonese
DUOJIE	Dongzhi	Northwest University for Nationalities; Oxford University	On Determinative Sentence in Tun-huang Tibetan Documents
EBIHARA	Shiho	Seisen University, Japan	Copula neutralization in Amdo Tibetan
EVANS+HUANG	Jonathan Evans and Chenglong Huang	Academica Sinica, Taiwan; CASS, Beijing	House-Internal Geography in Ronghong Qiang
FENG	Hsiaochien馮筱茜	Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University	Segmental Changes of Hakka-Accented Mandarin: From The Aspect Of Generative Grammar
FERLUS	Michel	CNRS (retired)	Etymology of *wat/yuè 越 "people, principality" (as in Bǎiyuè 百越)
GARRETT	Edward	SOAS	[not presenting]
GENETTI	Carol	UCSB	Language Documentation in the Sino-Tibetan Context: Issues, prospects, and models
GOLDSTEIN	Beth	University of Kentucky	[not presenting]
HANDEL	Zev	U of Washington	Linguistic typology and the adaptation of Chinese writing to the indigenous languages of Vietnam, Korea and Japan: a preliminary investigation
HANSSON	Inga-Lill	Lund University	More about Akha Evidentials
HAYASHI	Norihiko	Kobe City U of Foreign Studies	Copula in Youle Jino
HILL	Nathan	Harvard University	Tibetan palatalization and the gy versus g.y distinction
HONDA	Isao	Nagoya College	The Kaike conjunct/disjunct revisited
HUANG	Hui-ju	National Tsing Hua University	A preliminary study of character-order neglected effect in Chinese reading
HUANG	Jincheng	Shanghai International Studies University	The Proto-diminutive of Sino-Tibetan Languages
HUANG + YU	Wan-Ju Huang, Hui-Jyun Yu	Linguistic Institute, National Chengchi University, Taipei	On the Phonological Processes in Korean Accented Mandarin
HUZIWARA	Keisuke	Kyoto University	An overview of grammatical particles in Marma
HYSLOP	Gwendolyn	University of Oregon	Internal word structure in Kurtöp
IKEDA	Takumi	Kyoto University	Spotlights to the decipherment of the Nam language
IKEDA	Takumi	Kyoto University	Verbs for existence in Tangut and Mu-nya *
INTAJAMORNRAK	Chommanad	Chulalongkorn U	The Fundamental Frequencies of Tai Yuan Tones Spoken by Lua’ (Mal) Speakers of Nan Province, Thailand
ISHIKAWA	Iwao 石川巌	The Eastern Institute	Old Tibetan Funeral Rites and Buddhism -P. T. 239 Recto Reconsidered *
IWAO	Kazushi	British Library	The costs of copying Śatasāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā in Tibetan ruled Dunhuang *
IWASA	Kazue	LACITO, CNRS Paris	Problems and prospects for research on the Yi manuscripts conserved in Europe
JACQUES	Guillaume	Université Paris Descartes, INALCO, CRLAO	A reconstruction of the Tangut kinship system *
JENNY	Mathias	University of Zuerich	Finiteness in Burmese
JOHNSEN	Sverre	Harvard University	The ban on diphthongs in open syllables in Burmese
KATO	Atsuhiko	Osaka Univ School of Foreign Studies	A first report on Htoklibang Pwo Karen and reconstruction of the Proto-Pwo phonemic system
KELLY	Barbara	University of Melbourne	Cohesion in Sherpa adult and child narratives
KIRYU	Kazuyuki	Mimasaka U	Extended usages of the causative suffix in Kathmandu Newar
KRECH (1)	Uwe	Uni of Melbourne	Reassessment of the Pyu face of the Myazedi inscriptions of Pagan
KRECH (2)	Uwe	Uni of Melbourne	Comparison of (Late) Pyu and (Early) Old Burmese (as attested in the Myazedi Inscriptions of Pagan) with Modern Spoken Burmese
LEHMAN	Kris	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	The puzzle of loun:gyi: tin tahcaung: ngin in Burmese: a problem in phonetics and history
LIDZ	Liberty	U Texas at Austin	Non-systemic ergativity, anti-ergativity, and grammaticalization in Yongning Na (Mosuo)
LIN	Yi-An	U of Cambridge	A Force Phrase in Chinese Nominal Domain
LIU	Joyce H-C	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan	Tone errors in Taiwanese
LÜ + WU	Lü Cui-Ping and Wu Yu-hsien	National Chengchi University, Taipei	Nasalization in Child Mandarin
MATISOFF	James A.	UC Berkeley	"Stung by a mosquito, you fear a fly": areal and universal aspects of Lahu proverbial wisdom
MAZAUDON	Martine	LACITO-CNRS	[not presenting]
MEISTERERNST	Barbara	U of Gent	Prepositional phrases referring to a point of time in Han period Chinese
MICHAILOVSKY	Boyd	LACITO-CNRS	On Limbu directionals and locative expressions
MICHAUD	Alexis	LACITO/CNRS, Paris	Approaching the tone system of Yongning Na (TB)
MIGLIAZZA	Brian	SIL	Ethnologue 16th Edition- Coming Soon!
MORTSENSEN	Eric	Guilford College	The Oral Performatory Nature of Naxi Pictographic Texts *
NAHAKPAM	Aruna Devi	Manipur University	Manipuri poetry: a linguistic analysis
NIE	Hongjin	CASS	Complementary notes on the predicative personal suffixes of the Tangut language *
PENG	Guozhen	CRLAO, Paris	Analysis of ‘give’ serializations in Jingpo
PENG	Hsin-yi i彭心怡	Taiwan	Two variations of stress in the Wu and gan dialects
PERLIN	Ross	University of Leiden	Maintaining minority languages in China: the Dulong case
PETERSON	David	Dartmouth	Nominalization in Kuki Chin and Mru
PHAN	John Duong	Cornell	Palatal Affricates and an Annamese dialect of Middle Chinese
PITTAYAPORN	Pittayawat	Cornell University	De-aspirating Proto-Tai
PLAISIER	Heleen	Leiden University	There is no telling: Lepcha delúk texts *
QUANG	Kim Ngoc	National Tsing Hua U, Taiwan	A case study on Dragons and rainbows
RAI	Vishnu	Chintang Puma Documentation Project	Some pragmatic features of the Puma language
ROMEO	Nicoletta	University of NSW	The grammaticalised use of the Burmese verbs la ‘come’, thwà ‘go’ and laiq ‘follow’.
ROY et al.	Somi Roy,		DigitizeMANIPUR: an international project to digitize the rare and endangered manuscripts of Manipur
SAGART	Laurent	CRLAO Paris	ST bone names
SANDS	Kathy	Biola University	Languages with Trivocalics: Proposed Linguistic Universals and Tibeto-Burman Languages
SAWADA	Hideo	RILCAA, TUFS, Tokyo	Grammatically conditioned vowel alternation in Lacid (Lashi) in Kachin State
SCHUESSLER	Axel		The Middle Chinese divisions as the result of vowel bending
SHIH	Pei-yu	NTNU, Taiwan	Central vowels in Quemoy dialect
SHIRAI	Satoko	Nagoya Institue of Technology	The role of existential verbs in verb serialization in nDrapa
SI	Fuzhen 司富珍	Beijing Language and Culture University, China	Functional Head “De” in Chinese Relative Clauses 汉语关系子句中的功能中心语“的”
SIDWELL	Paul	Centre for Research in Computational Linguistics (Bangkok); Australian National University (Canberra)	Was there ever an Austroasiatic substrate in central China?
SIMMONS	Richard	Rutgers University	A Core Sample of a Dialect Transition Zone in the Lower Yangtze Watershed
SINGH	Chungkham Yashawanta	Manipur University	One-word sentences in Manipuri
SO-HARTMANN	Helga	SIL	Nominalization and Relativization in Mro
STUMP	Greg	University of Kentucky	[not presenting]
SUN	Bojun 孙伯君	CASS	A study on the Sanskrit-Tangut transliteration in Tangut Buddhist texts *
SUZUKI	Hiroyuki	National Museum of Ethnology, Japan	/l/ ~ /j/ interchange in Shangri-La Tibetan
TAGUCHI	Yoshihisa	Chiba University	On the subgrouping of Mien dialects
TANG	Lili	City University of Hong Kong	A-not-A questions in Yangzhou dialect of Chinese
TSAO	Feng-fu	National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan	Diminutive Rime Convergence in Three Chinese Dialects
van SCHAIK	Sam	British Library	The origin of cursive writing (dbu med) in Tibet *
VITTRANT	Alice	Université de Provence CNRS-LACITO	Burmese as a language of the Mainland SoutEast Asia (MSEA) Sprachbund
WASILEWSKA	Halina	Adam Mickiewicz Uni, Poznań	Orthography of the traditional Yi writing
WILLIAMS and PETERSON	Nicholas W + Dave P	Dartmouth College	Mru directionals
WU	Chin-Wen Ariel	National Chiao Tung U, TW	Asymmetry of Negation in Mandarin and Taiwanese
WU	Juan	Cardiff University	Discerning the grammatical creations in the Chinese Buddhist translations: the case of wei-mo-jie jing (Vimalakirtinirdesa-sutra)
WU + ZENG	Wu Chinwei + Zeng Weiting	National Taiwan Normal University	A comparative study of the phonological systems of the Chinese Minnan dialects: Jinmen and Jiayi accent
YABU	Shiro	Osaka University	A historical study of the formation of Written Burmese (WrB)
YANG	Cathryn	La Trobe, SIL	Variation in Lalo: Beyond East and West
YANG + LEE	Yang He 杨贺, Lee Byumlyul 李范烈	Peking University	“Suo” Structure in Classical Chinese
YU	Dominic	UC Berkeley	The Mianning dialect of Lizu
ZEIBIG	Karin	SIL	[Not presenting]
ZENG	Guangping 曾光平	Henan University	吴语方言词探源
ZHANG	Cheng	Beijing Lang + Cult Univ	Repeaters in Chinese and other languages
ZHANG	Shengkai	TUFS	The Auxiliary Word ‘ta?4’ in Pingjiang Dialect
ZHANG	Weijia 维佳	北京语言大学	On the Issue of the Phonetic Levels of Sino-Korean
~~ZHOU~~	Facheng 周发成		A brief discussion of Qiang case markers (read by Peter Lester)
ZU	Vera / Xin	Chinese U of HK	On the so-called ‘multiple options’ of sentence-final words in Jingpo, from a minimalist perspective