Characteristics and Controlling Power of Disyllabification in Tibeto-Burman Languages-A Comparative Review of the Development of Disyllabification in Chinese
The phenomenon of disyllabification is prevalent in Tibeto-Burman languages and serves as a common feature among them.This paper employs the theory of linguistic typology with an analytical perspective,and based on a substantial corpus of Tibeto-Burman languages,it analyzes the characteristics of their disyllabification.It points out that the disyllabification of Tibeto-Burman languages is both universal and imbalanced,resulting from a combination of internal motivations and external influences.Its formation pathways include combinatory,rhythmic,reduplicative,augmentative-reductive,and borrowing methods.Disyllabification has a certain controlling influence on the characteristics and evolution of phonetic types,word formation methods,grammatical forms,grammatical meanings,and syntactic features.The paper also notes that Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages share a genetic relationship,both contain analytical features,and both exhibit tendencies towards disyllabification.However,due to the diverging evolutionary characteristics of Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages,their approaches to disyllabification and the strength of its influence also differ.In summary,this paper analyzes the commonalities and differences between the disyllabification in Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages,suggesting that such comparison contributes to deeper research into Sino-Tibetan languages.
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