Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages: Piats 2000: Tibetan Studies: Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, 2) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004124241 ISBN 13: 9789004124240

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2002

Synopsis

This book on the pre-modern Tibeto-Burman languages represents a movement to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics according to the classical Indo-European model. The book contains papers by T. Takeuchi on Old Zhang-zhung, A. Zadoks on Old Tibetan, K. Tamot on Early Classical Newari; C. Beckwith on Pyu, R. Yanson on Old Burmese, S. Chelliah and S. Ray on Early Meithei, D. Bradley on Tibeto-Burman, and C. Beckwith on Sino-Tibetan. Glossaries of several early Tibeto-Burman languages are included. It provides information, not found in any other source, on early Tibeto-Burman literary languages and their position within Tibeto-Burman as well as their relationship to Chinese and other languages.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher I. Beckwith, Ph.D. (1977)is a Professor at Indiana University and a MacArthur Fellow (1986) and the author of The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia: A History of the Struggle for Great Power among Tibetans, Turks, Arabs, and Chinese during the Early Middle Ages (1987) and numerous articles in the fields of medieval studies and linguistics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9004124241
• ISBN 13: 9789004124240
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Beckwith Christopher