Preliminary bibliography for the Eurasian sound-change database

Indo-European
Kmmel, Martin. 2007. Konsonantenwandel: Bausteine zu einer Typologie des Lautwandels
und ihre Konsequenzen fr die vergleichende Rekonstruktion. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

Uralic
Sammallahti, Pekka. 1988. Historical phonology of the Uralic Languages. Denis Sinor (ed.),
The Uralic languages 478554. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Dravidian
Zvelebil, Kamil. 1970. Comparative Dravidian phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Pfeiffer, Martin. 1972. Elements of Kurux historical phonology. Indologia berolinensis, Bd 3.
Leiden: Brill.

Altaic

Turkic
Tenishev, Edgem R. (ed.) 1984. Sravnitelno-istoricheskaia grammatika tiurkskikh iazykov.
Vol. 1. Phonetika. Moscow: Nauka.

Japanese
Martin, Samuel E. 1987. The Japanese language through time. New Haven: Yale University
Press.
Gunther Wenck. Japanische Phonetik (4 vols., 19541959)

Korean
Lee, Ki-Moon; and S. Robert Ramsay. 2011. A history of the Korean language. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Mongolic
Poppe, Nicholas. 1987. Introduction to Mongolian comparative studies (2nd. ed.). Finno-
Ugrian Society: Helsinki.
Nugteren, Hans. 2011. Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages (Ph.D.).
Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke LOT.

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Tungusic
Tsintsius, Vera. 1949. Sravnitelnaya grammatika tunguso-manchzhurskikh yazykov.
Leningrad: Gosuchpedgiz.
Benzing, Johannes. 1956. Die tungusischen Sprachen. Versuch einer vergleichenden
Grammatik. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Menges, Karl H. 1959. Die tungisischen Sprachen. In B. Spuler (ed.), Altaistik, vol. 3:
Tungusologie, 21256. Leiden: E. J. Brill. [1968. Die tungusischen Sprachen. In B. Spuler
(ed.), Handbuch der Orientalistik, Erste Abteilung, Fnfter Bd., Dritter Abschnitt,
Tungusologie., 21-256. Leiden.]

Semitic

General
Bennett, Patrick R. 1998. Comparative semitic linguistics: a manual. Winona Lake, Ind:
Eisenbrauns.
Lipiski, Edward. 2001. Semitic languages: outline of a comparative grammar. 2nd ed.
Leuven; Sterling, VA: Peeters.

Northwest
Several dozen descriptions of Neo-Aramaic dialects with a discussion of historical
phonology.
Garnier, Romain; and Guillaume Jacques. 2012. A neglected phonetic law: The assimilation
of pretonic yod to a following coronal in North-West Semitic. Bulletin of the School of
Oriental and African Studies 75.135145. doi:10.1017/S0041977X11001261.

Arabic
Behnstedt, Peter, Wolfdietrich Fischer, and Otto Jastrow (eds.) 1980. Handbuch der
arabischen Dialekte. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Behnstedt, Peter; and Manfred Woidich. 2011. Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte. Leiden;
Boston: Brill.

Austroasiatic

Vietnamese
Maspero, Henri. 1912. Etudes sur la phontique historique de la langue annamite. Les
initiales. Bulletin de l'Ecole franaise d'Extrme-Orient 12(1).1124.
Thompson, Laurence E. 1967. The history of Vietnamese finals. Language 43(1).362371.
Gregerson, Kenneth. 1981. A study of Middle Vietnamese phonology. Dallas: Summer
Institute of Linguistics.
Ferlus, Michel. 1982. Spirantisation des obstruantes mdiales et formation du systme
consonantique du vietnamien. Cahiers de LinguistiqueAsie Orientale 11(1).83106.

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Mon & Khmer
Ferlus, Michel. 1983. Essai de phontique historique du mn. Mon-Khmer Studies 12.190.
Ferlus, Michel. 1992. Essai de phontique historique du khmer (Du milieu du premier
millnaire de notre re l'poque actuelle). Mon-Khmer Studies 21.5789.

Katuic
Sidwell, Paul. 2005. The Katuic languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative
lexicon. LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics 58. Mnchen: Lincom Europa.
Gehrmann, Ryan. 2017. The historical phonology of Kriang, a Katuic language. Journal of
the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 10.114139.

Tai-Kadai

Thai
Brown, J. Marvin. 1965. From Ancient Thai to Modern Dialects. Bangkok: Social Science
Association Press of Thailand.
Li, Fang-kuei. 1977. Handbook of Comparative Tai. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of
Hawaii Press.
Gedney, William J.; and Robert J. Bickner. 1989. Selected papers on comparative Tai
studies. Ann Arbor: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan.

Kra
Ostapirat, Weera. 2000. Proto-Kra. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 23(1): 1-251.

Kam-Sui
Thurgood, Graham. 1988. Notes on the reconstruction of Proto-KamSui. In Jerold A.
Edmondson and David B. Solnit (eds.), Comparative Kadai: Linguistic studies beyond Tai
179-218. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.

Hlai
Norquest, Peter K. 2007. A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Hlai. University of
Arizona, Tucson Ph.D. thesis

Hmong-Mien
Ratliff, Martha Susan. 2010. Hmong-Mien language history. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.

Sino-Tibetan

Sinitic
Baxter, William Hubbard. 1992. A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology. Trends in
linguistics 64. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

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 Baxter, William Hubbard. 1999. Reconstructing Proto-Mandarin Retroflex Initials. Issues
in Chinese dialect description and classification, ed. by Richard VanNess Simmons, 135.
Journal of Chinese linguistics: Monograph series 15. Berkeley, California: Project on
Linguistic Analysis.
Norman, Jerry. 1974. The Initials of Proto-Min. Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2.2736.
Norman, Jerry. 1991. The Mn Dialects in Historical Perspective. Languages and Dialects of
China, ed. by William S.-Y. Wang, 323358. Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph
Series 3. Berkeley, California: Project on Linguistic Analysis.
Yan, Margaret Mian. 2006. Introduction to Chinese dialectology. LINCOM Studies in Asian
linguistics 22. Mnchen: LINCOM Europa.

Tibetic
Several dozen descriptions of contemporary Tibetic varieties tracing their phonological
history back to Old Tibetan.

Lolo-Burmese
Bradley, David. 1979. Proto-Loloish. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies monograph
series 39. London: Curzon Press.
Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan. 2012. Subgrouping of Nisoic (Yi) languages: A study from the
perspectives of shared Innovation and phylogenetic estimation. Ph.D. dissertation, University
of Texas at Arlington.
Hill, Nathan W. Inventory of Burmese sound changes. A presentation made at ICHLL 21
Oslo, 2014.
Hill, Nathan W. Burmese. Nathan W. Hill. A draft monograph on the comparative phonology
of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese. Ms.

Kuki-Chin-Naga
VanBik, Kenneth. 2009. Proto-Kuki-Chin: a reconstructed ancestor of the Kuki-Chin
languages. STEDT monograph series 8. Berkeley, California: University of California.
Bruhn, Daniel. 2014. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga. University of
California, Berkeley Ph.D. thesis.

TGMT & Himalayish

Mazaudon, Martine. 1996. An outline of the historical phonology of the dialects of Nar-Phu
(Nepal). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 19(1).103114.
Mazaudon, Martine. 2012. The influence of tone and affrication on manner: Some irregular
manner correspondences in the Tamang group. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area
35(2).97112.
Ronkos, Danielle. 2015. Obstruent voicing and tone in Siklis Gurung. CUNY Academic
Works. http://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1110
Wilde, Christopher P. 2017. A phonological comparison of Gamale, Sheram and Ghusbang
three Kham varieties. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 10.6790.

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Qiangic & rGyalrongic
Evans, Jonathan. 2001. Introduction to Qiang lexicon and phonology: synchrony and
diachrony. Tokyo: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Jacques, Guillaume. 2014. Esquisse de phonologie et de morphologie historique du tangoute.
Leiden; Boston: Brill.

Kiranti
Opgenort, Jean-Robert. 2005. A grammar of Jero, with a historical comparative study of the
Kiranti languages. Leiden: Brill.
Jacques, Guillaume. 2017. A reconstruction of Proto-Kiranti verb roots. Ms.

Other ST
Sun, Jackson T.-S. 1993. A historical-comparative study of the Tani (Mirish) branch in
Tibeto-Burman. University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. thesis.
Jacques, Guillaume; and Alexis Michaud. 2011. Approaching the historical phonology of
three highly eroded Sino-Tibetan languages: Naxi, Na and Laze. Diachronica 28.468498.
doi:10.1075/dia.28.4.02jac.
Yu, Dominic. 2012. Proto-Ersuic. University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. thesis.

Kartvelian
Schmidt, Karl Horst. 1962. Studien zur Rekonstruktion des Lautstandes der sdkaukasischen
Grundsprache. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner.
Klimov, Georgij. 1994. Einfhrung in die kaukasische Sprachwissenschaft. Hamburg: Buske.

North Caucasian

Nakh-Daghestanian
Nichols, Johanna. 2003. The Nakh-Daghestanian Consonant Correspondences. In: Holisky,
Dee Ann, and Tuite, Kevin. (eds.) Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner
Asian Linguistics. Papers in Honor of Howard I. Aronson. 207-264. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Abkhaz-Adyghe
Chirikba, Viacheslav. 1996. Common West Caucasian. The reconstruction of its
phonological system and parts of its lexicon and morphology. Leiden: Research School
CNWS.

Ainu
Vovin, Alexander. 1993. A reconstruction of proto-Ainu. Leiden; New York: Brill.

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 Basque
Michelena, Luis. 1990. Fontica histrica vasca. San Sebastin: Diputacin Foral de
Guipuzkoa.
Trask, Robert L. 1997. The history of Basque. London: Routledge.

Burushaski
Holst, Jan Henrik. 2014. The dialects and comparative method. Advances in Burushaski
linguistics, 51106. Tbingen: Narr Verlag.

Chukotko-Kamchatkan
Fortescue, Michael D. 2005. Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan dictionary. Berlin; New
York: Mouton de Gruyter.

EskimoAleut
Fortescue, Michael; Steven Jacobson; and Lawrence Kaplan. 2010. Comparative Eskimo
Dictionary with Aleut Cognates. United states of America: Alaska Native Language Center.

Yukaghir
Nikolaeva, Irina. 2006. A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir. Berlin; New York: Walter de
Gruyter.

Yeniseian
Starostin, Sergei. 1982. Prayenisayskaya rekonstruktsiya i vneshniye svyazi yeniseyskikh
yazykov. Ketskiy sbornik. Antropologiya, etnographiya, mifologiya, lingvistika, 144237.
Leningrad: Nauka.