Madhumita Barbora
List of John Benjamins publications for which Madhumita Barbora plays a role.
Articles
2015 The Bugun language: Maintenance issues Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 38:2, pp. 187–206 | Article
One of the goals for researchers of an endangered language is to help the indigenous group to revive and maintain the language that is at risk of disappearing. Sange Phiang, a native Bugun, told me on my first field trip to the Bugun area in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh that “our… read more
2007 The Particle ne in Direct yes-no Questions Linguistic Theory and South Asian Languages: Essays in honour of K. A. Jayaseelan, Bayer, Josef, Tanmoy Bhattacharya and M.T. Hany Babu (eds.), pp. 199–214 | Article
This paper examines the particle ne in direct yes-no questions in Assamese. The particle ne occurs in the clause final position. When overt it is optionally followed by a negative element nai ‘is not’ or the k-word ki ‘what’. Constituent wh-questions have an abstract Q morpheme in the C position.… read more