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In this presentation, we compare intonational boundary cues in three understudied languages which have three distinct typological profiles - Kera'a (Tibeto-Burman, NE India), Waima'a (Austronesian, Timor-Leste), and Warlpiri.

This talk will focus on the phonetics and phonology of Mindri, a dialect of Kera’a spoken in the Dibang Valley district.

This talk will focus on the phonetics and phonology of Mindri, a dialect of Kera’a spoken in the Dibang Valley district.

With a lack of valency-decreasing devices, and the grammaticalisation of ‘give’ for both causative and applicative functions, Bumthang stands out as a language with a verbal typology unusual for its region.

Bumthang data allows us to gain an insight into unusual ways of encoding property modification as well as a glimpse into how newer adjective classes co-exist amongst older verbal and nominal modification strategies.

The unusual order of constituents in the Bumthang noun phrase helps us map the pre-history of the Himalaya.

We find that negated clauses in Bumthang contrast with their positive counterparts in terms of both case marking on transitive subjects and on aspect marking on verbs.