Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study from the Perspectives of Shared Innovation and Phylogenetic Estimation - Tapa blanda

Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan

 
9783659425462: Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study from the Perspectives of Shared Innovation and Phylogenetic Estimation
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ISBN 10: 365942546X ISBN 13: 9783659425462
Editorial: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

Sinopsis

Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages reflected Dr. Ziwo LAMA (aka. QIU Fuyuan)’s insight on language subgrouping of Nisoic (or Yi Branch, Loloish or Ngwi) and Niso-Burmese, a language stock spoken in Southwest China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar as well as India. This book studies the affiliation of 34 Nisoic and three Burmic languages from two perspectives: shared innovation and phylogenetic estimation. Shared phonological innovations and shared elements of word formation were used to establish the language relationship of Nisoic. This comparative study yielded eight subgroups: Nisoish, Lisoish, Kazhuoish, Nusoish, Naxish, Lahoish, Hanoish, and Mondzish. These eight groups and Burmish group made up the nine members of Niso-Burmic Branch. Both Bayesian inference and Neighbor-Net were used to estimate the evolution of Niso-Burmic descent. The phylogenetic database matrix was comprised of 38 taxa and 4099 character states. The results of the phylograms produced by MrBayes and networks generated by SplitsTree were almost identical, and they were essentially the same as the subgroups of Nisoic and Niso-Burmic determined by shared innovations.

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Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) Languages reflected Dr. Ziwo LAMA (aka. QIU Fuyuan)'s insight on language subgrouping of Nisoic (or Yi Branch, Loloish or Ngwi) and Niso-Burmese, a language stock spoken in Southwest China, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar as well as India. This book studies the affiliation of 34 Nisoic and three Burmic languages from two perspectives: shared innovation and phylogenetic estimation. Shared phonological innovations and shared elements of word formation were used to establish the language relationship of Nisoic. This comparative study yielded eight subgroups: Nisoish, Lisoish, Kazhuoish, Nusoish, Naxish, Lahoish, Hanoish, and Mondzish. These eight groups and Burmish group made up the nine members of Niso-Burmic Branch. Both Bayesian inference and Neighbor-Net were used to estimate the evolution of Niso-Burmic descent. The phylogenetic database matrix was comprised of 38 taxa and 4099 character states. The results of the phylograms produced by MrBayes and networks generated by SplitsTree were almost identical, and they were essentially the same as the subgroups of Nisoic and Niso-Burmic determined by shared innovations.

Biografía del autor

Ziwo LAMA, Ph.D. in linguistics (UT Arlington), professor at SW Univ. for Nationalities and director of Int’l Center for Yi-Burmese Linguistic Studies SWUN. A native Nuosu Yi. Interested in phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, writing systems, endangered languages, and multilingualism. Has researched on Tibeto-Burman languages since 1991.

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Editorial
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Año de publicación
2013
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ISBN 10 
365942546X
ISBN 13 
9783659425462
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Número de páginas
464
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