Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "Tibetan"
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Accusative alignment in the Old Tibetan switch reference system
(2022)The use of ནས་ -nas to mark cross-clausal co-reference in Version I of the Old Tibetan Rāmāyaṇa reveals accusative alignment in Tibetan syntax, which in turn vindicates the notion of ‘subject’ applied to Tibetan. -
A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese
(2016)Song (2014) draws renewed attention to the problem of groups of Chinese words in which the character used to write one of the words has a stop final reading in Middle Chinese but the character used to write another of the ... -
Tibetan *-as > -os
(2016)Both Jacques (2010) and Zeisler (2015) propose explanations for the synchronically unexpected past zos of the Tibetan verb 'eat'. After evaluating their proposals, this essay suggests that zos is the regular outcome of ...