Ebook: An outline of Gyarong grammar

Osaka: Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology, 2001. 国立民族学博物館研究報告 26巻1号，131-164頁。This paper is designed to outline Gyarong grammar. Many scholars have paid attention to this language because some lexical items are very close or sometimes identical to those of Written Tibetan (WT) . Looking into its grammatical systems carefully, however, has led many to recognize that the language is far from WT and in fact rather closer to Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB) both in terms of phonological shapes and morpho-syntax. There have been only a limited number of grammatical descriptions of this important language, and this small paper is an attempt to improve the situation.