Yoshihisa Taguchi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yoshihisa Taguchi is involved.
Articles
2025 On Proto-Mienic plosive initials Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 48:2, pp. 236–249 | Article
Mienic languages constitute one of two branches of the Hmong-Mien language family, Hmongic and Mienic, and are distributed over a vast area from southern China to Southeast Asia. Based on the published data, this paper argues that certain correspondence patterns found between Mienic languages… read more
2022 Nasal transfer in Hmongic Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 45:1, pp. 72–92 | Article
Hmongic languages exhibit a single nasal coda -ŋ corresponding to three codas in Mienic: -m, n, -ŋ, which suggests that Hmongic languages have lost place distinctions in nasal codas. However, in some words, Hmongic syllables with a nasal coda -ŋ correspond to Mienic syllables with no nasal coda,… read more