Alexis Michaud
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexis Michaud is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0731-3500 | E‑ISSN 2214‑5907
2015 Strata of standardization: The Phong Nha dialect of Vietnamese (Quảng Bình Province) in historical perspective Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 38:1, pp. 124–162 | Article
The present research, based on first-hand data, is intended as a contribution to the study of the present-day diversity of lesser-described Vietnamese dialects, and of the range of evolutionary paths to which they testify. The Vietnamese dialect of the hamlet of Phong Nha (commune of Sơn Trạch,… read more
2012 Historical transfer of nasality between consonantal onset and vowel: From C to V or from V to C? Diachronica 29:2, pp. 201–230 | Article
Comparative data from several language families show that nasality can be transferred between a syllable-initial consonant cluster and the following vowel. The cases reported to date are summarized, and a new analysis is proposed for a set of Sino-Tibetan data. The evolution appears to go in both… read more
2011 Approaching the historical phonology of three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze Diachronica 28:4, pp. 468–498 | Article
Naxi, Na and Laze are three languages whose position within Sino-Tibetan is controversial. We propose that they are descended from a common ancestor (‘Proto-Naish’). Unlike conservative languages of the family, such as Rgyalrong and Tibetan, which have consonant clusters and final consonants, Naxi,… read more
2006 Prosodic Constituents in French: A Data-Driven Approach Prosody and Syntax: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Ivan Fónagy and Tsunekazu Moriguchi (eds.), pp. 47–64 | Article