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Hi Mark,
<div>One thing that is similar to Becker’s work on classifiers and the lexical aspects you mentioned is the differentiation of copulas/locatives based on semantic classes. I discuss this briefly in my paper on parallel grammaticalizations in TB languages (1994: <a href="https://randylapolla.info/Papers/LaPolla_1994_Parallel_Grammaticalizations_in_Tibeto-Burman_-_Evidence_of_Sapirs_Drift.pdf">https://randylapolla.info/Papers/LaPolla_1994_Parallel_Grammaticalizations_in_Tibeto-Burman_-_Evidence_of_Sapirs_Drift.pdf</a>)</div>
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<div>Hope this helps!</div>
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<div>Best always,</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Could anyone point me to any papers, or sections of larger descriptions, specifically discussing cultural/environmental/contextual shaping of aspects of TH/TB languages? By which I mean the sorts
of things found in <em data-start="3" data-end="78">Language Structure and Environment: Social, Cultural, and Natural Factors</em> (eds. De Busser & LaPolla, 2015). Some clear-ish examples are topographical deixis and (arguably I suppose, but whatever) evidential/egophoricity
systems, and Becker's work on Burmese classifiers (and some similar things from other languages). I'm also aware of some relevant aspects of lexicon, e.g. prefix types (higher/lower/wild/domestic animal, kin prefixes, masculine/feminine prefixes/suffixes)
and studies of kinship terminology/systems, but I'm sure there are lots of other relevant things out there... Any/all assistance will be gratefully acknowledged!</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thanks much</div>
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