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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>Here are the recommended readings on language contact for Tibeto-Burman languages in NE India. Thank you all for your sending in your references. Let me know if I’ve missed anything.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Shobhana<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b> From Mark Post<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>http://jamescook.academia.edu/MarkWPost/Papers/213198/The_Siyom_River_Valley_An_essay_on_intra-subgroup_convergence_in_Tibeto-Burman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>http://jamescook.academia.edu/MarkWPost/Papers/229667/Language_contact_and_the_genetic_position_of_Milang_in_Tibeto-Burman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>http://uoregon.academia.edu/ScottDelancey/Papers/159709/On_the_Origins_of_Bodo-Garo<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]><a href="http://uoregon.academia.edu/ScottDelancey/Papers/179225/Language_Replacement_and_the_Spread_of_Tibeto-Burman">http://uoregon.academia.edu/ScottDelancey/Papers/179225/Language_Replacement_and_the_Spread_of_Tibeto-Burman</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='color:black'>From Scott DeLancey<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Jacquesson, F. 1999. "Abrégé d'histoire de l'Assam jusqu'à l'installation anglaise". Journal asiatique , 287/1, 191-283.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.</span><![endif]><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Jacquesson, F. 2000. "Deux territoires d'histoire linguistique, le Brahmapoutre et l'Iénisséï", Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris , 95/1, 343-388.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6.</span><![endif]><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>7.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Jacquesson, F. 2006 (forthcoming). "The speed of language change, typology and history. Languages, speakers and demography in NE India", in Sanchez-Mazas A, Blench R, Ross M, Peiros I, Lin M (Eds), Past human migrations in East Asia: matching archaeology, linguistics and genetics .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>7.</span><![endif]><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><b><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>8.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></b><![endif]>DeLancey, Scott. “On the origins of Bodo-Garo.” to appear in In Hyslop, Gwendolyn, Stephen Morey, and Mark Post, (eds.), North East Indian Linguistics 4. New Delhi: Foundation/Cambridge University Press India. (in Mark Post’s list).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><b><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>8.</span></b><![endif]><b><o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b>From Robbins Burling (also suggested by </b><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='color:black'>Alice Vittrant and </span></b></span><b>Bettina Zeisler</b><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='color:black'>) </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>9.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Burling, Robbins. 2009 “The Lingua Franca Cycle, Language Shift and Language Change.” Anthropological Linguistics 19: 207-244.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='color:black'>From Steve Morey<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>10.</span><![endif]>There is some discussion of the contact between the Turung variety of Singpho and the Tai Aiton in Chapter 1 of Morey, Stephen. 2010. Turung – a variety of Singpho language spoken in Assam. Canberra, Pacific Linguistics.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>11.</span><![endif]>Morey, Stephen. 2006. ‘Small languages in a polylingual situation – the case of Turung’ in R. Elangaiyan, R. McKenna Brown, Nicholas D.M. Ostler and Mahendra K. Verma eds. FEL X: Vital Voices - Endangered Languages and Multilingualism. Mysore: Foundation for Endangered Languages. 87-94<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>12.</span><![endif]>Satyanath, Shobha and Nazrin Laskar.2008. 'Lexicon in a Contact Language: The Case of Bishnupriya' in S. Morey and M. Post (eds). North East Indian Linguistics. New Delhi, Cambridge University Press India. 75-92<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>13.</span><![endif]>Laskar, Nazrin .2008. 'Temporality in Bishnupriya' in S. Morey and M. Post (eds). North East Indian Linguistics. New Delhi, Cambridge University Press India. 191-202<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>14.</span><![endif]>Phillips, Virginia Crowell. 2010. 'Case Marking in Hajong' in G. Hyslop, S. Morey and M. Post (eds). North East Indian Linguistics 3. New Delhi, Cambridge University Press India. 224-240<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>15.</span><![endif]>Barz, R.K. and A.V.N. Diller, 1985, Classifiers and standardisation: some South and South-East Asian comparisons. In David Bradley ed., Papers in South-East Asian Linguistics No. 9 – Language Policy, Language Planning and Sociolinguistics in South-East Asia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='color:black'>From Gwen Hyslop<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>16.</span></span></span><![endif]><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>Hyslop, Gwendolyn. 2008. Kurtöp Phonology in the Context of Northeast India. In eds. S. Morey and M. Post, <i>North East Indian Linguistics 1</i>, 3–25. Delhi: Cambridge University Press.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt'>From Alec Coupe<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>17.</span></span><![endif]>Moral, Dipankar. 1997. <i>North-east India as a linguistic area</i>. <b><i>MKS 27:43-53</i></b>.<span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>18.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Coupe, A.R. 2007. Converging patterns of clause linkage in Nagaland. In <i>New Challenges in Typology Broadening the Horizons and redefining the Foundations</i>. Matti Miestamo and Bernhard Walchli (eds.), 339-361. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>