This volume reprints — with additions and corrections — seven papers originally published 1962–1973, on the indigenous grammars of Tibet and their linguistic tradition. Two ancient treatises commonly attributed to “Thon-mi Sambhoṭa” are studied extensively, as well as extracts from many other… read more
SUMMARY Old Japanese, the language of 8th-century texts, frequently displays voicing dissimilation of certain consonants in successive syllables, a phenomenon sometimes (but incorrectly) deemed to have been sporadic, but now understood to have operated according to a rigid pattern of regular… read more