Год выпуска: 2013 Автор: Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan Lama Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 464 ISBN: 9783659425462
Описание
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...
