Comparative Tibeto-Burman Verb Morphology
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Abstract Narrative                                                                                                                                                      This is a project in historical linguistics, an effort                  to reconstruct a key portion of the grammar of Proto-Tibeto-                    Burman, the ancestral language of a family of several hundred                   present-day languages spoken in Asia.  The investigator is                      also attempting to reconstruct comparable grammatical systems                   for a number of the intermediate languages between the parent                   language and the present languages, and to delineate the                        historical development of the family and the proper sub-                        grouping of the present-day languages.  The results of the                      project will constitute a significant contribution to our                       understanding of the early history of that part of the world,                   and also to our general understanding of the processes of                       linguistic change.                                                                                                                                                      The Principal Investigator is an internationally                        renowned authority on the languages of the Tibeto-Burman                        family, as well as on some of the languages of native North                     America.  He has been enormously productive, and his work is                    recognized as thorough, rigorous, and insightful.  He is                        entirely well qualified to undertake the proposed research and                  carry it through to a successful conclusion.
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