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    A Grammar Sketch of Uruangnirin
    (2026) Visser, Eline
    This paper presents a grammatical sketch of Uruangnirin, an Austronesian language of Indonesia. It provides an overview of word classes, personal pronouns, nouns and noun phrases, verbs and verbal inflection, clausal syntax, valency-changing strategies, complex predicates, clause coordination and complement clauses. A brief overview of other Uruangnirin materials and publications, notably the audio-visual corpus, is included.
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    A Grammatical Sketch of Northern Tai Long Shan
    (2026) Soh, Jyr Minn
    Current grammar descriptions of Shan varieties do not include the northern variety within the current Shan State. This article addresses this gap by providing a descriptive sketch of a northern variety of Shan, namely, northern Tai Long Shan. Primary linguistic data shows that the northern Tai Long Shan phonemic inventory consists of 5 distinct tones, 18 consonants, and 12 vowels. Sentences in this variety of Shan follow a general topic-comment structure, and clauses follow a verb-object order. Common multi-clausal structures include conjunctional constructions and adverbial constructions expressing conditional, causal, temporal, successive, and simultaneous meanings. Adverbial clauses commonly start with an adverbial to mark dependence, and they often precede the main clause. Other syntactic elements covered in this sketch are noun compounds, noun phrases, verb compounds, serial verb constructions, adjectives, adverbs, and sentence-final particles.
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    Jean-Louis Taberd’s Treatise on Vietnamese Function Words and Its Historical Context
    (2026) Phan, Trang; Paternicò, Luisa M.
    This paper presents a critical, linguistically annotated English translation of the prefatory materials in Jean-Louis Taberd’s Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum (Serampore 1838), focusing especially on the appended “Treatise on Various Particles and Pronouns Most Useful for Elegant Expression in the Annamite Language.” Situated within the history of early quốc ngữ and missionary language description, Taberd’s treatise constitutes an unusually systematic inventory of Vietnamese functional items (broadly construed), including negation and interrogation markers, clause linkers, comparatives and degree/focus expressions, classifiers, and discourse particles. Our edition preserves Taberd’s order and metalinguistic framing while providing minimal, targeted notes to clarify early modern Latin categories, dialectal/orthographic remarks, and diachronic shifts relative to present-day Vietnamese. Where Taberd explicitly flags a form as “of Chinese origin” (or restricts it to Sino-derived compounds), we supply Chinese character(s) and Sino-Vietnamese readings for cross-checking. The result makes a key nineteenth-century source accessible to a wider readership and offers new empirical material for the history of Vietnamese grammatical description, quốc ngữ development, and Sino-Vietnamese grammatical vocabulary.
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    The Phonological System of Kri Phoong in Vietnam and an Extensive Glossary
    (2026) Nguyễn, Hữu Hoành; Vũ, Thị Hải Hà; Bùi, Thị Ngọc Anh
    The Kri Phoong language (also known as Kha Phong, Coi, and Kri) is a minority language belonging to the Vietic group within the Austroasiatic language family. Kri Phoong is distributed in Vietnam and Laos, where it is simply called Kri. From a synchronic perspective, Kri in Laos has been described quite thoroughly in the phonological description and sketch grammar of Kri, a Vietic language of Laos (Enfield and Diffloth 2009), but the Kri Phoong language in Vietnam has not been described. This article will present its phonetic-phonological system and introduce 1,000 lexical items of Kri Phoong in Vietnam. The results of our research show that Kri Phoong in Vietnam is a sesquisyllabic, tonal language. The presence of tones is the most noteworthy difference between the Kri Phoong language in Vietnam and the Kri language in Laos, which lacks tones.
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    Language Shift and Endangerment of Mising, a Tani Language in Northeast India
    (2026) Doley, Normoda; Mittal,Anurag
    This study presents a qualitative evaluation of the endangerment level of Mising (ISO 639-3: mrg), a Tibeto-Burman language of the Tani branch, spoken predominantly in the Upper Assam region and parts of Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India. This research employs the nine-factor language vitality assessment framework proposed by UNESCO (2003), with data collected through sociolinguistic questionnaires, community observations, and in-depth interviews. Findings indicate that intergenerational transmission, though still present, is increasingly threatened, with younger generations showing a worrying decline in fluency and consistent use.
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    Quantification in Bodo
    (2026) Brahma, Sansuma
    This article explores the morphological composition of Bodo quantifiers. Based on their morphological features, Bodo quantifiers can be broadly categorized into core and morphologically derived complex quantifiers. Both quantifiers are further divided into Classifier:type-numeral, Classifier:type-how.much/many, Classifier:type-each/every, Classifier:cycle.of.action-numeral, Interrogative=Indefinite, and Non-classifier/Indefinite quantifier. In addition, the article discusses the morpheme or structure used for comparison. This article uses Partee’s (1995) and Keenan’s (2017) A-type and D-type classifications to look at these quantifiers’ morpho-syntactic structure and distribution.