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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. The volume includes six papers on Tangut, three on Tibetan and one each on the languages Mon, Burmese, Lepcha, Pyu, Nam, and Yi. Building a bridge between linguistic and literary research the range of studies treats phonology, decipherment, literature and religion.

Tibeto-Burman languages. --- Tibeto-Burman languages --- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Southeast Asian Languages. --- Himalayan languages --- Sino-Tibetan languages --- Chin languages --- History

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This edited volume brings together work on the evidential systems ofTibetan languages. This includes diachronic research, synchronicdescription of systems in individual Tibetan varieties and papersaddressing broader theoretical or typological questions. Evidentiality inTibetan languages interacts with other features of modality,interactional context and speaker knowledge states in ways that provideimportant perspectives for typologists and our general understanding ofevidential systems. This book provides the first sustained attempt tocapture this complexity and diversity from both a synchronic anddiachronic perspective.

Tibetan literature. --- Tibetan literature --- E-books --- Tibetan language --- Evidentials (Linguistics) --- Grammar. --- Indic literature --- Evidentiality. --- Tibetan. --- Tibeto-Burman.