Joanna Bialek
List of John Benjamins publications for which Joanna Bialek plays a role.
Articles
2024 Evidentiality as a grammaticalization passenger: An investigation of evidential developments in Tibetic languages and beyond Evidentiality and Modality, Mélac, Eric (ed.), pp. 638–681 | Article
This article investigates the grammaticalization patterns of evidentiality from a cross-linguistic perspective with a focus on Lhasa Tibetan. It documents the history of the evidential morphemes ’dug, -song, -bzhag, and =ze from Old Literary Tibetan to modern spoken Lhasa Tibetan. Our analyses… read more
2023 Emergence of the honorific register in Tibetic languages Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 46:2, pp. 290–327 | Article
This article presents the first diachronic investigation of the honorific register in Tibetic languages. Although all historically attested Tibetic languages possess at least some rudimentary forms used to convey respect to others, no reconstruction of their origins has been previously attempted. read more
2018 Hyslop, Gwendolyn 2017. A grammar of Kurtöp Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 41:1, pp. 128–132 | Review