Joanna Bialek
List of John Benjamins publications in which Joanna Bialek is involved.
2026 Proto-Tibetic *mbras ‘ 1 grain; 2 rice’: Comparative reconstruction and dialect subgrouping Language and Linguistics 27:2, pp. 175–227 | Article
This article proposes a new historical subgrouping of Old Tibetan dialects. It demonstrates that Tibetan dialects started to differentiate in late pre-historical times, shortly before the script introduction. The emergence of the first dialects is shown to have resulted from the military… read more
2024 The cycle of applicative in Tibetic: Lexicalization, grammaticalization and pragmaticization Diachronica 41:4, pp. 437–481 | Article
This paper investigates the grammaticalization and subsequent pragmaticization of an applicative construction in Tibetic. Based on linguistic data ranging from the 8th century to modern times, we show how successive linguistic changes link a verb phrase originally meaning ‘to act as a companion… read more
2024 Evidentiality as a grammaticalization passenger: An investigation of evidential developments in Tibetic languages and beyond Evidentiality, Modality and Grammaticalization, Mélac, Eric (ed.), pp. 638–681 | Article
This article investigates the grammaticalization patterns of evidentiality from a cross-linguistic perspective with a focus on Lhasa Tibetan. It documents the history of the evidential morphemes ’dug, -song, -bzhag, and =ze from Old Literary Tibetan to modern spoken Lhasa Tibetan. Our analyses… read more
2023 Emergence of the honorific register in Tibetic languages Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 46:2, pp. 290–327 | Article
This article presents the first diachronic investigation of the honorific register in Tibetic languages. Although all historically attested Tibetic languages possess at least some rudimentary forms used to convey respect to others, no reconstruction of their origins has been previously attempted. read more
2018 Hyslop, Gwendolyn 2017. A grammar of Kurtöp Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41:1, pp. 128–132 | Review