Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. — 18, 445 p. — (Mouton Grammar Library [MGL] 31). This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province. It belongs to the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman (one of the...
Brill, 2015. — 452 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library / Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 15). In A Grammar of Guìqióng, Jiāng Lì describes the grammar of Guìqióng, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in Kāngdìng county, China. Guìqióng has a lot to offer in its phonology, verbal and nominal morphology, syntax and glossary, distinguishing itself...
Handout for PhD oral examination. — Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong, 2004. — 21 p.
This presentation outlines my research, which is an attempt to produce a lasting record of a dying language, the Puxi variety of the Qiang language. Beyond cultural preservation, this research provides empirical data for comparative research and the reconstruction of Proto-Qiang and...
Brill, 2014. — 405 p. — (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 14; Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region 14). A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pǔmǐ Nationality and the Zàng Nationality (in Mùlǐ, Sichuan) in southwest China. Prinmi belongs to the Qiangic branch and is closely related to the extinct language of...
La Trobe University, 2023. — 753 p. Namuyi Khatho is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Qiang group, spoken by approximately 5,000 people on the eastern border of the Tibetan plateau. This thesis is the first detailed linguistic investigation of the language. It is mainly based on data collected during two field trips between 2014 and 2016. This descriptive grammar gives an...
University of California – Berkeley, 2012. — 260 p. This is a reconstruction of Proto-Ersuic, the ancestor language of Lizu, Tosu, and Ersu, three closely related languages spoken in southwestern Sichuan which are generally considered to be part of the Qiangic branch of Tibeto-Burman. To date, no in-depth historical work has been carried out on these languages. Approximately...
University of California, 2017. — 64 p. This thesis is a description of suprasegmental phenomena in Yonghe Qiang, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Western Sichuan, China. The analysis, based on original data from fieldwork, presents Yonghe as having an obligatory word-level accent overlaying a privative /L/ vs. Ø tonal contrast. The thesis includes a discussion of issues of...
University of California, 2021. — 397 p. This dissertation presents the verbal morphology of the Yonghe variety of Qiang through the lens of Radical Construction Grammar. Yonghe Qiang is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in Yonghe Township, Mao County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, People’s Republic of China. Chapter 1 (Context) provides background information on...
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