Xun Gong
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xun Gong is involved.
Articles
2020 How many vowels are there in Lhasa Tibetan? Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 43:2, pp. 226–255 | Article
Lhasa Tibetan is described in a number of independent research traditions which give different accounts of its phonology. To what extent do these discrepancies reflect real dialectal or idiolectal differences? To what extent do they reflect different analyses of the same system? In this paper,… read more
2020 Uvulars and uvularization in Tangut phonology Language and Linguistics 21:2, pp. 175–212 | Article
Tangut, a mediaeval Qiangic language (Sino-Tibetan family) distinguishes three grades (děng 等). The traditional Sofronov-Gong reconstruction of this distinction postulates different degrees of medial yod: Grade I {-Ø-}, Grade II {-i-}, Grade III {-j-}. The yods, however, are not supported by the… read more