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Proto-Bodo-Garo correspondences word list

Description: Typed table comparing multiple Boro-Garo languages to Proto-Bodo-Garo reconstructed forms, arranged alphabetically by English gloss. Includes handwritten notes clarifying glosses, tones, and sources of information.
Date: [2005..2015]
Creator: Burling, Robbins & Jacquesson, Francois
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Notes on Rabha field work and word lists

Description: Handwritten and typed notes on Rabha phonology with phoneme inventory and brief summary of Burling's work with Rabha consultants. Includes word lists in multiple semantic domains (natural world, body parts, animals, kinship terms, insects, physical descriptors) and notes on regional variation, Assamese influence, and comparisons to Garo, Khasi, Atong, Koch, and KokBorok.
Date: [1995..2005]
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Notes on KokBorok grammar

Description: Handwritten notes from the 1978-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. There are word lists of verbs and common nouns and notes from elicitations of grammatical categories including TAM, gender, classifiers, particles, negation, subordinators, and adverbials. See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: 1987/1988
Creator: Matisoff, James A.
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KokBorok grammar drafts and notes

Description: Notes from the 1987-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. These are the handwritten and typed drafts of the KokBorok grammar with notes and questions from the authors to each other. See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: 1988
Creator: Matisoff, James A.; Tripura, Prashanta & Jurafsky, Dan
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Some Preliminary Issues in the Reconstruction of Proto-KokBorok

Description: This is a description of Proto-KokBorok prepared as part of the 1987-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with some handwritten notes from Jim Matisoff. Tripura describes regional variation and provides a phoneme inventory, rhyme classes, and correspondences with Bodo.
Date: May 27, 1988
Creator: Tripura, Prashanta
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Notes on KokBorok grammar

Description: Handwritten notes from the 1978-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. Grammatical notes cover reduplication, compound nouns, verbal particles, and serial verbs. Some notes are in Bengali and other languages. Sociolinguistic and historical notes describe sound changes, regional variation, and the relationships between KokBorok and other Bodo-Garo languages. See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: 1987/1988
Creator: Tripura, Prashanta; Jurafsky, Dan & Matisoff, James A.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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KokBorok dictionary drafts and notes

Description: Notes from the 1978-88 Linguistic Field Methods course at University of California, Berkeley on KokBorok with the consultant Prashanta Tripura. These are typed drafts of a KokBorok dictionary with notes and questions from the authors to each other. The drafts are organized by initial and rhyme. For some entries, the form is also provided in Bengali (Bng.), Bodo (B.), or the Naitong variety of KokBorok (Ntg.). See table of contents for detailed listing.
Date: May 1988
Creator: Matisoff, James A.; Tripura, Prashanta & Jurafsky, Dan
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Notes on KokBorok phonology and word lists

Description: Handwritten notes on KokBorok phonology focusing on tone and phonotactics, with phoneme inventory and comparisons to Garo. Includes word lists ranging multiple semantic domains (kinship terms, numerals, animals, agriculture, natural world, colors, physical descriptors, verbs of motion, verbs of perception, body parts, interrogatives, and time).
Date: January 1997
Creator: Burling, Robbins
Partner: UNT College of Information
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