SOAS Research Online

Sprigg, R. K. (2005) 'Types of R Prosodic Piece in a Firthian Phonology of English, and Their Vowel and Consonant Systems.' York Papers in Linguistics (Series 2), 4. pp. 125-156.

Sprigg, R. K. (2005) 'The short quantity piece in English lexical items, and its vowel system.' York Papers in Linguistics (Series 2), 4. pp. 157-188.

Sprigg, R. K. (1998) 'Original and sophisticated features of the Lepcha and Limbu scripts.' Nepalese Linguistics, 15. pp. 1-18.

Sprigg, R. K. (1998) 'The earliest printed books in Lepcha.' Aachuley: A Quarterly Lepcha Bilingual News Magazine, 2 (1). pp. 14-19.

Sprigg, R. K. (1997) 'A Tonal Analysis of Gurung, with Separate Systems for Register and Contour Pitch Features.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 60 (3). pp. 448-454.

Sprigg, R. K. (1997) 'The oldest dated documents of the Lepchas.' Aachuley: A Quarterly Lepcha Bilingual News Magazine, 1 (2). pp. 9-11.

Sprigg, R. K. (1996) 'My Balti-Tibetan and English dictionary, and its predecessors.' The Tibet Journal, 21 (4). pp. 3-22.

Sprigg, R. K. (1995) '1826: The End of an Era in the Social and Political History of Sikkim.' Bulletin of Tibetology, 31. pp. 88-92.

Sprigg, R. K. (1993) 'Controversy in the Tonal Analysis of Tibetan.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 56 (3). pp. 470-501.

Sprigg, R. K. (1992) 'Bantawa Rai s-, t- and z-final verb roots: transitives, intransitives, causatives and directives.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 15 (1). pp. 39-52.

Sprigg, R. K. (1991) 'The spelling style pronunciation of Written Tibetan and and the hazards of using citation forms in the phonological analysis of spoken Tibetan.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 14 (2). pp. 93-131.

Sprigg, R. K. (1990) 'M. J. Hutt. Nepali: a national language and its literature.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 53 (1). pp. 155-157.

Sprigg, R. K. (1990) 'Tone in Tamang and Tibetan and and the advantages of keeping register-based tone systems separate from contour-based systems.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 13 (1). pp. 33-56.

Sprigg, R. K. (1989) 'Oral vowels and nasalized vowels in Lepcha (Rong): as the key to a puzzling variation in spelling.' In: Davidson, Jeremy H. C. S., (ed.), Contributions to South-East Asian linguistics: essays in honour of Eugenie J. A. Henderson. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, pp. 219-235.

Sprigg, R. K. (1989) 'Review of 'A Grammar of Limbu' by George van Driem.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 52 (1). pp. 163-165.

Sprigg, R. K. (1989) 'The Root Finals of Bantawa Rai Verbs, and the Congruence of Phonology with Grammar and Lexis.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 52 (1). pp. 91-114.

Sprigg, R. K. (1987) '‘Rhinoglottophilia’ revisited: observations on ‘the mysterious connection between nasality and glottality.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 10 (1). pp. 44-62.

Sprigg, R. K. (1986) 'Review of Roland Bielmeier, Das Märchen vom Prinzen Čobzaŋ.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 9 (2). pp. 83-89.

Sprigg, R. K. (1986) 'The syllable finals of Tibetan loan words in Lepcha orthography.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 9 (1). pp. 27-46.

Sprigg, R. K. (1985) 'Alphabet or syllabary in South East Asia: 'new wine into old bottles.' In: Thurgood, Graham, Matisoff, James A. and Bradley, David, (eds.), Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan area: the state of the art. Papers presented to Paul K. Benedict for his 71st birthday. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, pp. 105-115.

Sprigg, R. K. (1985) 'The Limbu s-final and t-fmal verb roots, after Michailovsky 1979 and Weidert 1982.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 8 (2). pp. 1-35.

Sprigg, R. K. (1984) 'The Limbu s-final and t-final verb roots after Michailovsky 1979 and Weidert 1982.' Nepalese Linguistics, 3. pp. 11-55.

Sprigg, R. K. (1983) 'Hooker's Expenses in Sikkim: An Early Lepcha Text.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 46 (2). pp. 305-325.

Sprigg, R. K. (1983) 'Newari as a language without vowel systems.' Nepalese Linguistics, 2. pp. 1-22.

Sprigg, R. K. (1981) 'The Chang-Shefts tonal analysis, and the pitch variation of the Lhasa Tibetan tones.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 6 (1). pp. 49-60.

Sprigg, R. K. (1980) ''Vocalic Alternation' in the Balti, the Lhasa, and the Sherpa Verb, as a Guide to Alternations in Written Tibetan, and to Proto-Tibetan Reconstruction.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 43 (1). pp. 110-122.

Sprigg, R. K. (1980) 'Vowel Harmony in Noun-and-Particle Words in the Tibetan of Baltistan.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 43 (3). pp. 511-519.

Sprigg, R. K. (1979) 'The Golok Dialect and Written Tibetan Past-Tense Verb Forms.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 42 (1). pp. 53-60.

Sprigg, R. K. (1979) 'A Descriptive Analysis of the Boro Language by Pramod Chandra Bhattacharya.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 42 (2). pp. 393-394.

Sprigg, R. K. (1978) 'Phonation types: a re-appraisal.' Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 8 (1-2). pp. 2-17.

Sprigg, R. K. (1978) 'Studies in the Grammatical Tradition in Tibet by Roy Andrew Miller.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 41 (1). pp. 184-185.

Sprigg, R. K. (1976) 'K. S. Gurubasave Gowda. Ao grammar.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 39 (2). p. 513.

Sprigg, R. K. (1976) 'Tibetan, its relation with other languages.' Tibetan Review, 11 (4). pp. 14-16.

Sprigg, R. K. (1976) 'The inefficiency of 'tone change' in Sino-Tibetan descriptive linguistics.' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 2 (2). pp. 173-181.

Sprigg, R. K. (1975) 'Martine Mazaudon. Phonologie tamang: étude phonologique du dialecte tamang de Risiangku.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 38 (2). pp. 461-463.

Sprigg, R. K. (1974) 'James A. Matisoff. The Loloish tonal split rerisited.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 37 (1). pp. 259-262.

Sprigg, R. K. (1974) 'The London-school 'systemic value' concept, and hierarchical versus relational analysis.' In: Heilmann, Luigi, (ed.), Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress of Linguists, Bologna-Florence 1972. Volume 1. Bologna: il Mulino, pp. 667-671.

Sprigg, R. K. (1974) 'Review of Paul Benedict. A Conspectus of Sino-Tibetan Cambridge University Press. 1972.' Asia Major: New series, 19 (1). pp. 100-106.

Sprigg, R. K. (1974) 'The lexical item as a phonetic entity.' Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 4 (1). pp. 20-30.

Sprigg, R. K. (1974) 'The main features of the Tibetan dialect.' Bulletin of Tibetology, 11 (1). pp. 1-15.

Sprigg, R. K. (1972) 'Assimilation, and the definite nominal particle in Balti Tibetan.' Bulletin of Tibetology, 9 (2). pp. 5-19.

Sprigg, R. K. (1972) 'A Polysystemic Approach, in Proto-Tibetan Reconstruction, to Tone and Syllable-Initial Consonant Clusters.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 35 (3). pp. 546-587.

Sprigg, R. K. (1972) 'A Reference Grammar of Colloquial Burmese by John Okell.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 104 (2). pp. 163-170.

Sprigg, R. K. (1971) 'Review of: Tankhur Naga Vocabulary by D. N. Shankara Bhat.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 34 (2). pp. 427-428.

Sprigg, R. K. (1970) 'D. N. Shankara Bhat: Boro vocabulary (with a grammatical sketch).' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 33 (2). pp. 419-420.

Sprigg, R. K. (1970) 'The Tibeto-Burman group of languages, and its pioneers.' Bulletin of Tibetology, 7 (1). pp. 17-19.

Sprigg, R. K. (1970) 'Vyajñanabhakti, and irregularities in the Tibetan Verb.' Bulletin of Tibetology, 7 (2). pp. 5-20.

Sprigg, R. K. (1969) 'Pradyumna P. Karan: Bhutan: a physical and aultural geography.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 32 (1). p. 231.

Sprigg, R. K. (1968) 'Burling Robbins. Proto Lolo-Burmense.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 31 (3). pp. 648-649.

Sprigg, R. K. (1968) The Phonology of the grammatical constituents of verbal-phrase words in spoken Tibetan (Lhasa Dialect). PhD thesis. SOAS, University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00019875

Sprigg, R. K. (1968) 'The role of 'R' in the development of the modern spoken Tibetan dialects.' Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 21 (3). pp. 301-311.

Sprigg, R. K. (1967) 'A. Rna-Tas. Tibeto-Mongolica: the Tibetan loanwords of Monguor and the development of the archaic Tibetan dialects.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 30 (1). pp. 216-217.

Sprigg, R. K. (1967) 'Balti-Tibetan Verb Syllable Finals and a Prosodic Analysis.' Asia Major: New series, 13 (1). pp. 187-210.

Sprigg, R. K. (1967) 'Grundlagen der Phonetik des Lhasa-Dialektes by Eberhardt Richter; A Manual of Spoken Tibetan (Lhasa dialect), by Kun Chang and Betty Shefts, with the Help of Nawang Nornang and Lhadon Karsip by Kun Chang; Betty Shefts.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 30 (1). pp. 210-216.

Sprigg, R. K. (1967) 'The Lepchas: Culture and Religion of a Himalayan People 2. by Halfdan Siiger; Jorgen Rischel.' Man, 2 (3). p. 487.

Sprigg, R. K. (1966) 'Lepcha and Balti Tibetan, tonal or non tonal.' Asia Major: New series, 12. pp. 185-201.

Sprigg, R. K. (1966) 'Phonological formulae for the verb in Limbu as a contribution to Tibeto-Burman comparison.' In: Bazel, Charles Ernest, (ed.), In memory of J.R. Firth. London: Longmans.

Sprigg, R. K. (1966) 'The glottal stop and glottal constriction in Lepcha, and borrowing from Tibetan.' Bulletin of Tibetology, 3 (1). pp. 5-14.

Sprigg, R. K. (1965) 'Prosodic Analysis and Burmese Syllable-Initial Features.' Anthropological Linguistics, 7 (6). pp. 59-81.

Sprigg, R. K. (1964) 'Burmese orthography and the tonal classification of Burmese lexical items.' Journal of the Burma Research Society, 47 (2). pp. 415-444.

Sprigg, R. K. (1963) 'Prosodic analysis and phonological formulae in Tibeto-Burman linguistic comparison.' In: Shorto, H. L., (ed.), Linguistic Comparison in South East Asia and the Pacific. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, pp. 79-108. (Collected papers in Oriental and African studies)

Sprigg, R. K. (1963) 'A comparison of Arakanese and Burmese based on phonological formulae.' In: Shorto, H. L., (ed.), Linguistic Comparison in South East Asia and the Pacific. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, pp. 109-132.

Sprigg, R. K. (1961) 'Vowel Harmony in Lhasa Tibetan: Prosodic Analysis Applied to Interrelated Vocalic Features of Successive Syllables.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 24 (1). pp. 116-138.

Sprigg, R. K. (1959) 'Limbu books in the Kiranti Script.' In: Franke, Herbert, (ed.), Akten des vierundzwanzigsten Internationalen Orientalisten-Kongresses München 28. August bis 4. September 1957. Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, in Kommission bei Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 590-592.

Sprigg, R. K. (1957) 'Junction in spoken Burmese.' In: Studies in linguistic analysis. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 104-138.

Sprigg, R. K. (1956) 'The tonal system of nouns and adjectives in the Lhasa dialect of spoken Tibetan.' In: Sinor, Denis, (ed.), Proceedings of the 23rd Congress of Orientalists. London: Royal Asiatic Society, pp. 262-263.

Sprigg, R. K. (1955) 'The Tonal System of Tibetan (Lhasa Dialect) and the Nominal Phrase.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 17 (1). pp. 133-153.

Sprigg, R. K. (1954) 'Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan--I.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 16 (1). pp. 134-156.

Sprigg, R. K. (1954) 'Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan--II.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 16 (2). pp. 320-350.

Sprigg, R. K. (1954) 'Verbal Phrases in Lhasa Tibetan--III.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 16 (3). pp. 566-591.