Sangsrgyas Tshering
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sangsrgyas Tshering is involved.
Articles
2026 An interlinear glossed text in Thebo Tibetan: The story of Gser.mo.’tsho and Dngul.mo.’tsho Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 49:1, pp. 83–106 | Article
This article presents a transcribed, glossed, and translated folktale in Thebo Tibetan. The narrative is presented in four-line interlinear format with accompanying commentary and time-aligned transcription. This is the first published text in Thebo Tibetan and offers valuable insight into its… read more
2025 實現—能力 [Realization-potential]: 藏語動詞的一個重要範疇 [A necessary and important semantic category of Tibetan verbs] Language and Linguistics 26:3, pp. 496–532 | Article
以往學者對古藏語和經典藏語動詞系統的分類和描述，主要建立在以「及物性｣、｢自主性｣、｢時體｣、｢語氣/式」和「語態」這幾個範疇為核心的框架之上。本文則意在深入考察藏語動詞中另一個關注較少的重要範疇，我們稱之為「實現—能力」(realization-potential)範疇。語義上，該範疇表達「實現目的、結果」和「能力、可能性」這兩種互相關聯的意義；形式上，該範疇與時體、語氣/式和語態範疇類似，其典型的動詞成員有專門的的詞幹形態變化來表達特定語義。本文旨在前人研究的基礎上，從語義、形態兩處入手對該範疇及相關動詞做一番較為全面的考察。語義方面，通過藉助「事件整合理論」的分析， read more
2024 A voicing rule for non-continuant obstruents in Thebo Tibetan Language and Linguistics 25:4, pp. 710–746 | Article
Voicing alternation and the function of Tibetan verbal prefixes are two problems that have attracted scholars of Tibetan and Sino-Tibetan linguistics for over a century. This article presents a voicing rule in Thebo Tibetan and systematically analyzes the verb paradigm to explain the constraints… read more