Screen LibraryHimalayan languages : past and present /
Biographical note: Anju Saxena is Professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2011. ©2004 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Trends in linguistics. studies and monographs ;
volume 149 |
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Biographical note: Anju Saxena is Professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. Main description: With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its cultural diversity, and its widespread multilingualism- both the stable and transient kind- the Himalayan region is a treasure trove of empirical data for linguistic research on language typology and universals, historical linguistics, language contact and areal linguistics. Himalayan Languages contains contributions on Himalayan linguistics written by some of the leading experts in the field. The volume is divided into three parts: First, a general overview is given of the linguistic study of Himalayan languages and language communities. The second part offers synchronic studies of individual languages of the region (Indo-Aryan languages Shina and Kalasha, and Tibeto-Burman languages Belhare, Magar, Kinnauri, Classical Tibetan and Thangmi). The papers in the third part of the volume address topics in historical and areal linguistics, with an emphasis on the Tibeto-Burman languages of the region, discussing grammaticalization processes (in Sunwar, Newar, Seke, Tshangla and Bantawa) and the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman. Review text: "With topics from descriptive Dardic phonolgy, to comparative Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax and genealogy, and universals of semantic change, this collection proves to be a diverse set of papers that would be of interest to any linguist specializing in the Himalayas, or any of the other topics mentioned here."Gwendolyn Lowes in: Journal of Himalayan Linguistics 2006 |
| Item Description: | Includes indexes. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 434 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110898873 |
| Index Number: | PL3781 |
| CLC: | H42-532 |
| Contents: |
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. 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. |