ANNOUNCEMENTS
For information about conferences, recent PhD completions, and other events and activities related to Tibeto-Burman linguistics, see The Tibeto-Burman Domain.
LTBA is moving to Singapore!
Starting with issue 35.1, LTBA will be edited by Dr. Alexander R. Coupe of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
New Addreess for Tibeto-Burman Linguistics Listserv
The Tibeto-Burman Linguistics discussion list is a
relatively
informal and unmoderated forum for discussion of any aspect of the
analysis of Tibeto-Burman languages (or possibly Sino-Tibetan in
general) and the culture of their speakers.
It is also a good place to announce events and activities relevant to
linguists working on these languages. It began on the La Trobe
University server in 2006, but has now been migrated to the Linguist
List server.
To join the list, send an e-mail to listserv@listserv.linguistlist.org
with no subject. In the body of the mail type
subscribe tibeto-burman-linguistics First_name Last_name
Replace "First_name" and "Last_name" with your names. After that, if
you want to post a message
to the list, send the message
to
tibeto-burman-linguistics@listserv.linguistlist.org
New e-mail address for LTBA
Because of frequent problems with the e-mail account
ltba@latrobe.edu.au, the LTBA e-mail account has been
changed to LTBA.email@gmail.com.
Anything
sent
to
the
old
account
will
be
forwarded.
Books Available for Review in LTBA
See the Books
Available
for
Review page for the books available.
Please
contact ltba.email@gmail.com
if you would like to review one of the books.
New Book Series: Gyalrong Studies
The National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka Japan) has established a new publication series, Gyalrong Studies, in which research results of "International Field Research of the Gyalrongic Languages" (2009-2012 fiscal years), a JSPS grant for field survey, will appear. Since 1995, the fruits of Prof. Nagano’s Bon studies project have been published as Bon Studies under Senri Ethnological Reports. Almost all of them can be accessed at: http://ir.minpaku.ac.jp/dspace/index.jsp?locale=en. The new series succeeds Bon Studies, but it is rather more focussed on linguistic approaches to Gyalrongic languages, texts and folklore. If you would be interested in getting the paper copies of Gyalrong Studies, please inform us of your postal mailing address and your affiliation by e-mail to the following addresses: ynagano@minpaku.ac.jp AND satoko@minpaku.ac.jp.
New Journal: 《汉藏语学报》Journal of Sino-Tibetan Linguistics
《汉藏语学报》Journal
of
Sino-Tibetan
Linguistics, edited by Prof. Dai Qingxia, is a new journal
devoted to the Sino-Tibetan language family, and so will include a
large number of papers on Tibeto-Burman languages. The first issue
appeared in mid 2007. For more
information and to submit articles,
write to Dr. Ziqun Luo at luoziqun@263.net (in Chinese) or to Randy
LaPolla at
r.lapolla@latrobe.edu.au (English or Chinese).
Classical Chinese Combinatorics:
Derivation of the Book of Changes Hexagram Sequence Now
Available
The first and most enigmatic of the Chinese
classics is the
Book of
Changes, and the reasoning behind its binary hexagram sequence remained
an unsolved mystery for some 3,000 years (according to the tradition
ascribing it to King Wen of Zhou, d. -11th c.). STEDT Monograph 5:
Classical Chinese Combinatorics: Derivation of the Book of Changes
Hexagram Sequence, by Richard S. Cook, resolves the
classical enigma.
It provides a comprehensive analysis of the hexagram sequence, showing
that its classification of binary sequences demonstrates knowledge of
the convergence of certain linear recurrence sequences (LRS; Pingala
-5th c.?, Fibonacci 1202) to division in extreme and mean ratio (DEMR,
the “Golden Section” irrational; Pythagoras -6th c.?, Euclid -4th c.).
It is shown that the complex hexagram sequence encapsulates a careful
and ingenious demonstration of the LRS/DEMR relation, that this
knowledge results from general combinatorial analysis, and is reflected
in elements emphasized in ancient Chinese and Western mathematical
traditions. This copiously illustrated 656-page volume presents a
detailed introduction of the classical problem, an overview and
in-depth derivation of the solution, an extensive terminological
glossary, and computer source code formalizing all aspects of the
derivations. The conclusion of this work situates the major findings in
a larger historical context. (ISBN 0-944613-44-6; 656 pages)
STEDT, Linguistics Dept.
1203 Dwinelle Hall #2652
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2652
ltba@socrates.berkeley.edu
US$100.00 + shipping and handling (please
specify air-mail
or
sea-mail)
Dictionary of Southern Lisu Now Available
A new dictionary of Southern Lisu by
David
Bradley has been
published as STEDT
Monograph Series No. 4. This includes a seven-page
introduction by the series editor, James A, Matisoff, a 20-page
introduction giving linguistic and other background on the Lisu, and
346 pages of dictionary entries including many sentences and other
examples. Lisu forms are given in Lisu orthography and in phonetic
transcription; the entries also include a wealth of cultural
information. The Southern Lisu dialect spoken in Thailand and
represented in this dictionary is quite different from the dialect
represented in the 1994 Northern Lisu dictionary by the same author,
published by Pacific Linguistics. Copies may be ordered from:
STEDT, Linguistics Dept.
1203 Dwinelle Hall #2652
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2652
ltba@socrates.berkeley.edu
Hard cover: US$50 + postage (please
specify
air-mail or
sea-mail)
Softbound: US$40 + postage
English-Lahu Lexicon Now Available
Lahu is an important minority
language of
Southeast Asia,
belonging
to the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is
spoken by over 500,000 people in China. Burma, Thailand, Laos and
Vietnam. This English-Lahu Lexicon (ELL) is a computer-aided but
manually edited "reversal" of the author's monumental Lahu-English
dictionary (The Dictionary of Lahu, UCPL #111, 1988, xxv + 1436 pp.).
English-Lahu Lexicon contains nearly 5400 head-entries and well over
10,000 carefully arranged subentries. Every Lahu expression is provided
with a form-class designation to indicate its grammatical function.
Eight useful Appendices (e.g. Plant and Animal Names) round out the
volume's 450 pages.
(UC
Publications in Linguistics 139. Berkeley, Los Angeles &
London: University of California Press, 2006, 450 pages. Cloth: $39.95,
£26.95
978-0-520-09855-8)
LTBA Available On Line
Beginning with Issue 29.1, LTBA has been available on line
from the Informit
e-Library
service for a separate subscription fee. It is also possible to
purchase individual articles through this service.