[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] TB Studies on linguistic encoding of plant–human interactions

[Rodo Pfister]

Dear Kristine,

I surely will appreciate when you feed back your list, maybe with the
option of a second round? 😛

No doubt it includes already the following item?

Chirkova Katia, Huber Franz K., Weckerle Caroline S., Daudey Henriette &
Pincuo Gerong

2016 /Plant Names as Traces of the Past in Shuiluo Valley, China/,

in: Journal of Ethnobiology 36(1): 192-214.

<https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-36.1.192
<https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-36.1.192>>

[Abstract: This study presents results of interdisciplinary fieldwork in
Southwest China by a team of linguists and ethnobotanists. It is based
on a comparative analysis of 70 common plant names in five Tibeto-Burman
languages spoken in Shuiluo Valley. The discussion focuses on (a) names
for locally important field crops and (b) plant names that are shared
between two or more languages. We make a preliminary stratification of
cognates and loanwords; we advance hypotheses about the sources of
loanwords; and we assess the distribution of loanwords against the
background of the existing historical and linguistic accounts of the
studied languages. The observed patterns shed light on the complex
migration history in the area and identify a group of plant names which
may originate in a linguistic variety which was once (or still is)
native to Shuiluo.Keywords: plant name, loanword, cognate, language
contact, linguistic history, Tibeto-Bur­man.]

Enjoy the day
rodo

Am 23.03.21 um 17:58 schrieb Kristine Hildebrandt:
> I want to thank everyone for the many useful references and leads that
> they have shared. I'll give it another couple of days, and then I will
> pull together a brief summary of what people have sent me.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Kristine
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 1:29 PM Kristine Hildebrandt <khildeb at siue.edu
> <mailto:khildeb at siue.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hello everyone,
>
>     I'm part of a small working group that is pulling together
>     research and publications on the linguistic encoding of plants and
>     plant–human interactions, with a pivot to the Himalayas (TB, and
>     other language families in that area). It's no surprise that
>     whatever is available on this is probably found in scattered
>     venues (in dictionaries, perhaps in grammars). But, I'm sure I'm
>     missing some obvious references. If anyone can direct me to
>     publications on this topic, including papers on methods as well as
>     descriptions (or else anything that expands out from that,
>     including fauna-human, agriculture-human), I would be grateful!
>
>     --
>     ----
>     Orche
>     'Thanks' in Manange <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manang_language>
>
>     Kristine Hildebrandt
>     Professor, English Language & Literature
>     <https://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/english/faculty-staff/hildebrandt.shtml>
>     Co-Director, The IRIS Digital Humanities Center
>     <https://iris.siue.edu/>
>     Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
>     President, Endangered Language Fund
>     <http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/>
>     Editor, /Himalayan Linguistics
>     <https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics>/
>
>
>
> --
> ----
> Orche
> 'Thanks' in Manange <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manang_language>
>
> Kristine Hildebrandt
> Professor, English Language & Literature
> <https://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/english/faculty-staff/hildebrandt.shtml>
> Co-Director, The IRIS Digital Humanities Center <https://iris.siue.edu/>
> Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
> President, Endangered Language Fund
> <http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/>
> Editor, /Himalayan Linguistics
> <https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics>/
>
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