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View article: The Typological Position of The Languages of Nepal: Morphosyntax
The Typological Position of The Languages of Nepal: Morphosyntax Open
We examine the typological position of the languages of Nepal among the languages of the world, considering a broad sample of morphosyntactic features. Following a computational analysis, we find that: most of the languages of Nepal occupy…
View article: Vowels of Nubri from the Perspective of Other Tibetan Languages
Vowels of Nubri from the Perspective of Other Tibetan Languages Open
This paper presents the first illustration of the vowel system of the Samagaun dialect of Nubri. We present acoustic data for the nine oral vowels and illustrate the contrastive nasalisation that may be added to three of these vowels. We p…
View article: Putting the <i>Dark Emu</i> debate into context
Putting the <i>Dark Emu</i> debate into context Open
In this review of the Dark Emu debate we start out by summarising Bruce Pascoe's original work and Peter Sutton and Keryn Walshe's critique. However, the majority of this contribution is to place this Australian‐focussed debate into broade…
View article: The segmental inflection of Bumthang verbs: exploring the boundary between phonology and morphophonology
The segmental inflection of Bumthang verbs: exploring the boundary between phonology and morphophonology Open
This paper presents a synoptic account of verbal suffixation in the Ura dialect of Bumthang, a language of central Bhutan. Examining verbal allomorphy shows the persistence of exceptions to historical sound changes in contemporary allophon…
View article: Mapping the middle ground between foragers and farmers
Mapping the middle ground between foragers and farmers Open
View article: Phonotactic dataset of Austronesian languages of Southeast Asia
Phonotactic dataset of Austronesian languages of Southeast Asia Open
Dataset for the Malayo-Polynesian languages included in the chapter: Donohue, Mark. To appear (2021?). Phonotactic and morphophonological notes. In Antoinette Schapper and Sander Adelaar, eds, The Oxford Guide of Malayo-Polynesian lang…
View article: Phonotactic dataset of Austronesian languages of Southeast Asia
Phonotactic dataset of Austronesian languages of Southeast Asia Open
Dataset for the Malayo-Polynesian languages included in the chapter: Donohue, Mark. To appear (2021?). Phonotactic and morphophonological notes. In Antoinette Schapper and Sander Adelaar, eds, The Oxford Guide of Malayo-Polynesian lang…
View article: Word order in the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia
Word order in the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia Open
Dataset for the Malayo-Polynesian languages included in the chapter: Donohue, Mark. To appear (2021?). Word Order. In Antoinette Schapper and Sander Adelaar, eds, The Oxford Guide of Malayo-Polynesian languages. Oxford: Oxford Uni…
View article: Dataset for Donohue and Gil 'Morphology' chapter (Malayo-Polynesian languages)
Dataset for Donohue and Gil 'Morphology' chapter (Malayo-Polynesian languages) Open
This is the dataset on which the discussion of the following publication is based. Donohue, Mark, and David Gil To appear (2021?). Morphology. In Antoinette Schapper and Sander Adelaar, eds, The Oxford Guide of Malayo-Polynesian langua…
View article: Word order in the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia
Word order in the Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia Open
Dataset for the Malayo-Polynesian languages included in the chapter: Donohue, Mark. To appear (2021?). Word Order. In Antoinette Schapper and Sander Adelaar, eds, The Oxford Guide of Malayo-Polynesian languages. Oxford: Oxford Uni…
View article: Dataset for Donohue and Gil 'Morphology' chapter (Malayo-Polynesian languages)
Dataset for Donohue and Gil 'Morphology' chapter (Malayo-Polynesian languages) Open
This is the dataset on which the discussion of the following publication is based. Donohue, Mark, and David Gil To appear (2021?). Morphology. In Antoinette Schapper and Sander Adelaar, eds, The Oxford Guide of Malayo-Polynesian langua…
View article: Language and dialect relations in Bumthang
Language and dialect relations in Bumthang Open
Thhis report presents basic wordlists from seven closely related East Bodish languages from Bumthang, northern Trongsa and far eastern Wangdue Phodrang districts in Bhutan. These wordlists are analysed, with lexico-statistical comparison t…
View article: Women’s Suffrage Movement Monument
Women’s Suffrage Movement Monument Open
“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.” – Susan B. Anthony Women’s struggle for equality is an issue that has persisted in the United States from its inception. At the first Wom…
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View article: The asymmetrical categories of negation in Bumthang
The asymmetrical categories of negation in Bumthang Open
Less inflectional categories are found in negated clauses than are found in affirmative clauses in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language of Bhutan. It is common cross-linguistically for languages to make fewer contrasts in negative clauses th…
View article: Extended ergativity in Bumthang
Extended ergativity in Bumthang Open
This paper addresses ergativity in Bumthang. In 2016, Donohue & Donohue reported on the variable use of the ergative case marker in Bumthang transitive clauses. They identified a number of largely pragmatic, semantic, and informational str…
View article: The complexity of tone in Nubri
The complexity of tone in Nubri Open
This paper introduces the tonal system of the amagaun dialect of Nubri. We first present an introduction to linguistic tone, with a focus on tone as it is found in Tibetan languages, before moving on to describe the tones in Samagaun Nubri…
View article: Foreign Exchange Rate and Economic Growth: The Case of Hong Kong
Foreign Exchange Rate and Economic Growth: The Case of Hong Kong Open
The relationship between the exchange rate and the real GDP of Hong Kong in the long period from 1955 to 2015 is investigated using a structural VAR model. The mutual effect of the two variables is studied in three periods: The results ind…
View article: Commentary: Culture mediates the effects of humidity on language
Commentary: Culture mediates the effects of humidity on language Open
Does (the presence or complexity of) tone inversely correlate with dryness of climate? The authors (Everett et al.) suggest that the absence of ambient humidity in the air negatively correlates with the presence of (complex?) lexical tone,…
View article: Polarity, case marking and aspect in Bumthang, a central Bhutanese language
Polarity, case marking and aspect in Bumthang, a central Bhutanese language Open
of presentation for ALS2016
View article: Areal typology, history, and a central Bhutanese language
Areal typology, history, and a central Bhutanese language Open
of presentation for ALS2016
View article: The Original Banana Split: Multi-disciplinary implications of the generation of African and Pacific Plantains in Island Southeast Asia
The Original Banana Split: Multi-disciplinary implications of the generation of African and Pacific Plantains in Island Southeast Asia Open
Traditional starchy banana cultivation in the humid tropics
\nis dominated by two widespread, but geographically
\ndiscrete, groups of AAB cultivars: plantains in Africa and
\nmaoli-popo`ulu in the Pacific. Both AAB subgroups exhibit
\nexc…