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Notes on Dimasa grammar and summaries

Description: Handwritten notes on Dimasa summarizing the status of Burling's description of various aspects of the language: interrogatives, modals, post-positions and subordinators, case marking, negation, TAM, and adverbials. Includes partial index of examples across multiple Dimasa notebooks.
Date: 2008-02/2009
Creator: Burling, Robbins
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Notes on Dimasa phonology

Description: Handwritten notes on Dimasa phonology with special focus on vowel quality and final glottals. Includes partial index of examples across multiple Dimasa notebooks.
Date: 2009-03-10/2009-03-15
Creator: Burling, Robbins
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Notes on Dimasa phonology and grammar

Description: Handwritten notes on Dimasa with a brief description of the phoneme inventory and consonant clusters and notes on grammar (case marking, plural forms, question formation, tense and aspect marking) including example phrases and sentences. Word lists cover verbs of perception, verbs of motion, interrogatives, fire, insects, units of measurement, and numerals.
Date: 2008-01-25/2008-02
Creator: Burling, Robbins
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Notes on Dimasa tones and vowel length

Description: Handwritten notes on Dimasa with special focus on tone, vowel length, and final glottals. Includes regional word list, words with final -p and -k, and minimal pairs and triplets demonstrating vowel length distinctions in adjectival forms.
Date: 2008-03-27/2008-04
Creator: Burling, Robbins
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Notes on Dimasa tones, pitch, and vowel length

Description: Handwritten notes on Dimasa phonology (tone, pitch, syllable structure) with special focus on vowel quality and final glottal stops. Includes word lists of kinship terms, body parts, natural world, animals, household items, numerals, agriculture, and transitive verbs of motion.
Date: 2009-03-07/2009-06-05
Creator: Burling, Robbins
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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
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