Comparative Tibeto-Burman Verb Morphology

抽象叙事 这是历史语言学的一个项目，一项努力 重建了原始藏语语法的关键部分， 缅甸语，一个几百人家庭的祖先语言 现在亚洲说的语言。 研究者 也试图重建类似的语法系统 对于父语言之间的一些中间语言， 语言和目前的语言，并划定 家庭的历史发展和适当的分 现代语言的分类。 的结果 该项目将对我们的 了解世界上这一地区的早期历史， 也是我们对 语言的变化 首席研究员是一名国际 著名的藏缅语权威 家庭，以及一些土著北方的语言 美国参考 他一直是非常富有成效的，他的工作是 被认为是彻底的、严谨的和有洞察力的。 他是 完全有资格进行拟议的研究， 把它进行到底，直到圆满结束。

Abstract Narrative This is a project in historical linguistics, an effort to reconstruct a key portion of the grammar of Proto-Tibeto- Burman, the ancestral language of a family of several hundred present-day languages spoken in Asia. The investigator is also attempting to reconstruct comparable grammatical systems for a number of the intermediate languages between the parent language and the present languages, and to delineate the historical development of the family and the proper sub- grouping of the present-day languages. The results of the project will constitute a significant contribution to our understanding of the early history of that part of the world, and also to our general understanding of the processes of linguistic change. The Principal Investigator is an internationally renowned authority on the languages of the Tibeto-Burman family, as well as on some of the languages of native North America. He has been enormously productive, and his work is recognized as thorough, rigorous, and insightful. He is entirely well qualified to undertake the proposed research and carry it through to a successful conclusion.