Editorial -- Reasons for language shift: Theories, myths and counterevidence -- Directionals in Tokpe Gola Tibetan discourse -- The language history of Tibetan -- Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts -- Stem alternation and verbal valence in Themchen Tibetan -- A comparative and historical study of demonstratives and plural markers in Tamangic languages -- Grammatical peculiarities of two dialects of southern Kham Tibetan -- The Sampang word accent: Phonetic realisation and phonological function -- A low glide in Marphali -- Pronominally marked noun determiners in Limbu -- About Chaurasia -- Implications of labial place assimilation in Amdo Tibetan -- Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives -- The status of Bunan in the Tibeto-Burman family -- Tibetan orthography, the Balti dialect, and a contemporary phonological theory -- Case-marked PRO: Evidence from Rabha, Manipuri, Hindi-Urdu and Telugu -- Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan -- On the deictic patterns in Kinnauri (Pangi dialect) -- Tibetan grammar and the active/stative case-marking type -- The nature of narrative text in Dzongkha: Evidence from deixis, evidentiality, and mirativity -- Sentence patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi: A field report -- Subject index -- Language index.