Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. List of contributors v
3. Content vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Trans-Himalayan 11
6. Creolization in the Divergence of the Tibeto-Burman Languages 41
7. Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages 71
8. The Tibetic languages and their classification 105
9. Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon 131
10. A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish 155
11. Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo- European origin 181
12. Subject and object agreement in Shumcho 221
13. The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na: a synchronic description and analysis 275
14. Rengmitca: the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh 313
15. Initial Grammatical Sketch of Tilung 329
16. Tshangla Phonology and a Standard Tshangla Orthography 393
17. Index 437