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Himalayan Languages : Past and Present / ed. by Anju Saxena.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 149Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (434 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110178418
  • 9783110898873
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 495 .4 22
LOC classification:
  • PL3781 .H575 2004eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
I-VIII -- Introduction -- Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world - The study of Himalayan languages -- Descriptive linguistics -- A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects -- Retroflex vowels and other peculiarities in the Kalasha sound system -- Direction and differential dative case marking in Magar -- Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective -- Hidden syntax in Belhare -- On the notion of sentence in Classical Tibetan -- On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives -- Language change -- Preverbal modifiers in Sunwar -- Directional prefixes in Kathmandu Newar -- Grammaticalization of deictic motion verbs in Seke -- “Do” as subordinator in Tshangla -- Morphosyntactic transparency in Bantawa -- Areal semantics - Is there such a thing? -- Shafer’s proto-West Bodish hypothesis and the formation of the Tibetan verb paradigms -- Newaric and Mahakiranti -- Subject index -- Language index
Summary: With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its great cultural diversity, and its widespread multilingualism - both the stable and transient kind - the Himalayan region is a treasure trove of empirical data for research on language typology and universals, historical linguistics, language contact and areal linguistics. Himalayan Languages contains an overview of Himalayan linguistics, synchronic studies of individual languages, and papers on the historical and areal linguistics of language families and languages in the region, contributed by some of the leading experts in the field.
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I-VIII -- Introduction -- Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world - The study of Himalayan languages -- Descriptive linguistics -- A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects -- Retroflex vowels and other peculiarities in the Kalasha sound system -- Direction and differential dative case marking in Magar -- Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective -- Hidden syntax in Belhare -- On the notion of sentence in Classical Tibetan -- On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives -- Language change -- Preverbal modifiers in Sunwar -- Directional prefixes in Kathmandu Newar -- Grammaticalization of deictic motion verbs in Seke -- “Do” as subordinator in Tshangla -- Morphosyntactic transparency in Bantawa -- Areal semantics - Is there such a thing? -- Shafer’s proto-West Bodish hypothesis and the formation of the Tibetan verb paradigms -- Newaric and Mahakiranti -- Subject index -- Language index

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With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its great cultural diversity, and its widespread multilingualism - both the stable and transient kind - the Himalayan region is a treasure trove of empirical data for research on language typology and universals, historical linguistics, language contact and areal linguistics. Himalayan Languages contains an overview of Himalayan linguistics, synchronic studies of individual languages, and papers on the historical and areal linguistics of language families and languages in the region, contributed by some of the leading experts in the field.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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