Keita Kurabe
List of John Benjamins publications in which Keita Kurabe is involved.
Articles
2023 Jinghpaw loanword typology: Is the Jinghpaw lexicon conservative or innovative? Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains, Coupe, Alexander R., Randy J. LaPolla and Hideo Sawada (eds.), pp. 119–135 | Article
Jinghpaw is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in northern Burma and adjacent areas of China and India. The language is known for both its conservative nature (e.g., comparative Tibeto-Burman linguistics) and the innovative nature of its speakers (e.g., social anthropology of highland Burma). In… read more
2023 Manifestations of Jinghpaw influence among Rawang speakers Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains, Coupe, Alexander R., Randy J. LaPolla and Hideo Sawada (eds.), pp. 273–290 | Article
Rawang and Jinghpaw, while both considered part of the larger Kachin ethnic group, are not seen to be closely related, though both retain proto-Tibeto-Burman forms relatively well. But as essentially all Rawang speakers speak Jinghpaw, there are a lot of loan words from Jinghpaw in Rawang, and… read more
2014 The reflexes of the Proto-Jingpho glides in modern Jingpho dialects Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 37:2, pp. 181–197 | Article
The aim of this paper is two-fold: (i) to investigate the reflexes of the Proto-Jingpho initial glides in modern Jingpho dialects based on sound correspondences between them; and (ii) to discuss vowel developments conditioned by proto-glides. The main findings of this paper can be summarized as… read more