Screen LibraryTrans-himalayan linguistics : historical and descriptive linguistics of the himalayan area /
The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. This volume brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs [tilsm];
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. This volume brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region. |
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1 online resource(viii,444pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110310832（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | PL3781 |
| CLC: | H42 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- List of contributors -- Content -- Introduction / Trans-Himalayan / Creolization in the Divergence of the Tibeto-Burman Languages / Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages / The Tibetic languages and their classification / Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon / A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish / Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo- European origin / Subject and object agreement in Shumcho / The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na: a synchronic description and analysis / Rengmitca: the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh / Initial Grammatical Sketch of Tilung / Tshangla Phonology and a Standard Tshangla Orthography / Index. |