Muhammad Zakaria
List of John Benjamins publications in which Muhammad Zakaria is involved.
2026 Evolutionary pathways between applicative, causative, and middle Studies in Language 50:1, pp. 109–159 | Article
An infrequently attested pattern of isomorphism between markers of valence-affecting constructions involves overlap between causatives and applicatives, with a transitivizing function, and middles, which are detransitivizing. Such synchronic overlap must be due to some feature of the development… read more
2024 Evidence of a contact-induced change: Relative-correlative clause in a South Central (Kuki-Chin) language of the Tibeto-Burman branch in Bangladesh Asian Languages and Linguistics 5:1, pp. 132–177 | Article
South Central Tibeto-Burman (also known as Kuki-Chin) forms a group of fifty languages spoken in the border area of Bangladesh, India and Burma. Due to their geographic distribution, speakers of South Central (SC) languages are in close contact with the superstrate languages, Bangla, Hindi and… read more
2023 Phonological, lexical and grammatical borrowings and replications in Hyow, a language of the Bangladesh-Burma border area Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains, Coupe, Alexander R., Randy J. LaPolla and Hideo Sawada (eds.), pp. 291–330 | Article
This paper presents a discussion of contact-induced borrowings and replications in Hyow, a Southeastern South Central (SC) Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Hyow shows two layers of contact-induced changes: an earlier layer under the influence of Burmese,… read more
2020 The segmental phonetics and phonology of Hyow, A Tibeto-Burman language of Bangladesh Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43:2, pp. 310–347 | Article
This paper presents a description and analysis of segmental phonetics and phonology of Hyow, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by almost 4,000 people in the southeast of Bangladesh. Hyow demonstrates phonological features which are absent in other Chin languages of the Tibeto-Burman branch. Proto… read more
