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Gwendolyn Lowes

Papers and handouts available for download, organized by topic (comments welcome):

Papers

Kurtoep

Kurtoep Phonology in the Perspective of Northeast India [pdf]

Comparative Tibeto-Burman

Comparative Notes on Tibeto-Burman Copulas

Kurtoep and the Classification of the Languages of Bhutan [pdf]

Zapotec

Reconstructing Tonogenesis in Zapotec

Potential Aspect and the Role of Tone in Two Variants of Valley Zapotec (with Ausencia Lopez Cruz). To be published in eds. Eloina Miyares Bermudez and Leonel Ruiz Miyares Linguistics in the Twenty-First Century. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Press. [pdf]

Handouts

Comparative/Historical Tibeto-Burman

Comparative Notes on Tibeto-Burman Copulas. Presented at the 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics. University of Washington, Seattle. September 16 2006.[pdf]

Kurtoep and the Classification of the Languages of Bhutan. Presented at the 42nd annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. April 6 2006. [pdf]

Kurtoep

Kurtoep Tone: reflections on diachrony. Presented at the 2nd Typology of Tone and Intonation Conference. ZAS, Berlin. September 9 2006. [pdf]

Tonogenesis in Progress: an experimental study of Kurtoep. Presented at the LSA summer meeting. East Lansing, Michigan. June 23 2006.[pdf]

Kurtoep Phonology in the Perspective of Northeast India. Presented at the inaugural meeting of the Northeast Indian Linguistic Society. February 6 2006. [pdf]

Zapotec

Reconstructing Tonogenesis in Zapotec. Presented at the Between Stress and Tone Conference. Leiden University and IIAS. June 16 2005. [pdf] (chart available here)