Preface

Yasuhiko Nagano

Introduction

Yasuhiko Nagano

Part I: Pronominals and Directives

Directional Prefixes in nDrapa and Neighboring Languages: An Areal Feature of Western Sichuan

Satoko Shirai

On the Verbal Affixes in West Himalayan

Yoshiharu Takahashi

On the Rise of the Classifier System in Newar

Kazuyuki Kiryu

The Origin of Non-Tibetan Words in the Tibetan Dialects of the Ethnic Corridor in West Sichuan

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Part II: Zhangzhung and Old Tibetan

Some Notes on‘Gold’and‘Road’in Zhangzhung and Tamangic

Isao Honda

Zhangzhung and Qiangic Languages

Guillaume Jacques

Zhangzhung and Gyarong

Yasuhiko Nagano

The Present Stage of Deciphering Old Zhangzhung

Tsuguhito Takeuchi and Ai Nishida

Part III: Comparison, Typology and Sub-grouping

When the‘Majority Rule’Does Not Apply: Ergative to Accusative Drift in Austronesian Languages and How We Know

Ritsuko Kikusawa

Challenging the Status-Quo: Drift, Direct Inheritance and Reconstruction

Lawrence A. Reid

Is There a Himalayan Tone Typology?

Jonathan P. Evans

Shared Morphology in Qiang and Tibetan

Huang Chenglong

Part IV: Some Critical Eyes on Linguistic Substrata

Causes and Effects of Substratum, Superstratum and Adstratum Influence, with Reference to Tibeto-Burman Languages

Randy J. LaPolla

The Historical Development of Youle Jino

Norihiko Hayashi

The Application of Substrate Theory in the Research on Ethnic Languages in China

Dai Qingxia

Stable Roots in Sino-Tibetan/Tibeto-Burman

James A. Matisoff

How to Establish Substratum Interference

Sarah G. Thomason