Hanbo Liao

List of John Benjamins publications in which Hanbo Liao is involved.

Articles

Liao, Hanbo and Ryan Gehrmann 2025 Kra-Dai tonogenesis in Austro-Tai perspective Diachrony of Tone, Auderset, Sandra, Rikker Dockum and Ryan Gehrmann (eds.), pp. 382–405 | Article

The complex tone inventories of Kra-Dai languages derive in part from earlier segmental codas via transphonologization. Comparative Austro-Tai research has identified systematic correspondences between Kra-Dai tones and Austronesian codas, but significant gaps remain: the segmental origins of… read more

Liao, Hanbo 2017 Proto‑Tai reconstruction of ‘maternal grandmother’ revisited: * na:j^A , * ta:j^A or * ta:j^B ? Language and Linguistics 18:1, pp. 116–140 | Article

The word ‘maternal grandmother’ presents irregular modern forms in Tai languages. It is ta:jB1 in most Northern Tai (NT) varieties, ta:jA1 in most Central Tai (CT) varieties, na:jA2 in most Southwestern Tai (SWT) varieties, and ja:jA2 in Standard Thai. Li (1971) reconstructs the proto-form… read more