Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area is a peer reviewed (refereed) journal devoted to the synchronic and diachronic study of the languages of the Southeast Asian linguistic area, especially the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman family. In addition to Tibeto-Burman, articles have appeared on all the major language families of mainland Southeast Asia (see Cumulative Index and the individual tables of contents).

LTBA was founded in 1974, and has been in continuous publication ever since, attracting contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field.

ISSN: 0731-3500
Library of Congress No.: 82-640813
OCLC No.: 4790670

Table of Contents 25.2 (Fall 2002)

SUN Hongkai A discussion of Qiang bilingualism-with concurrent comments on the influence of Chinese on the Qiang language
 1
IKEDA Takumi
 On pitch accent in the Mu-nya language 27
Sarju DEVI & K.V. SUBBARAO
 Reduplication and case copying: the case of lexical anaphors in Manipuri and Telegu  47
S. Imoba SINGH & L. Sarbajit SINGH
 Manipuri adjectives: a new approach
 73
Helga HARTMANN
 Verb stem alternation in Daai Chin
 81
Kenneth VANBIK
 Three types of causative constructions in Hakha Lai
 99
Lorenz LÖFFLER
 The tonal system of Chin final stops
 123
Kavita RASTOGI
 Raji: language of a vanishing Himalayan tribe
 155
W. South COBLIN
 On certain functions of 'a-chung in early Tibetan transcriptional texts
 169
Anju SAXENA
 Request and command in Kinnauri: the pragmatics of translating politeness 185
CHEN Baoya & HE Fang 
 Relativistic rank analysis of kernel consistent corresponding words between Chinese and Kam-Tai 
 195
James A. MATISOFF
 The present state of PST/PTB reconstruction: can we even write a fable in Proto-Lolo-Burmese?
 225
David MORTENSEN 
 Review of Les langues Hmong-Mjen (Miao-Yao): Phonologie historique by Barbara Niederer
 243