Linguistics of the Himalayas and beyond / edited by Roland Bielmeier, Felix Haller.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Bielmeier, Roland.

Haller, Felix.

Conference Name:

Himalayan Languages Symposium (8th : 2002 : Bern, Switzerland)

Series:

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 196.

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 196

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibeto-Burman languages--Himalaya Mountains Region--Grammar.

Tibeto-Burman languages.

Grammar.

Himalaya Mountains Region.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.

Contents:

Reasons for language shift: theories, myths and counterevidence / Dörte Borchers

Directionals in Tokpe Gola Tibetan discourse / Nancy J. Caplow

The language history of Tibetan / Philip Denwood

Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts / George van Driem

Stem alternation and verbal valence in Themchen Tibetan / Felix Haller

A comparative and historical study of demonstratives and plural markers in Tamangic languages / Isao Honda

Grammatical peculiarities of two dialects of southern Kham Tibetan / Krisadawan Hongladarom

The Sampang word accent: phonetic realisation and phonological function / René Huysmans

A low glide in Marphali / Martine Mazaudon

Pronominally marked noun determiners in Limbu / Boyd Michailovsky

About Chaurasia / Jean Robert Opgenort

Implications of labial place assimilation in Amdo Tibetan / Karl A. Peet

Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives / Anju Saxena

The status of Bunan in the Tibeto-Burman family / Suhnu Ram Sharma

Tibetan orthography, the Balti dialect, and a contemporary phonological theory / Richard K. Sprigg

Case-marked PRO: evidence from Rabha, Manipuri, Hindi-Urdu, and Telugu / Karumuri Venkata Subbarao, Upen Rabha Hakacham, and Thokchom Sarju Devi

Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan / Jackson T.-S. Sun

On the deictic patterns in Kinnauri (Pangi dialect) / Yoshiharu Takahashi

Tibetan grammar and the active/stative case-marking type / Ralf Vollmann

The nature of narrative text in Dzongkha: evidence from deixis, evidentiality, and mirativity / Stephen A. Watters

Sentence patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi: a field report / Bettina Zeisler.

Notes:

"The present book ... contains a selection of 21 papers from 43 presented ... at the 8th Himalayan Languages Symposium held at the University of Bern, Switzerland, September 19-22, 2002."--Editorial.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3110198282

9783110198287

OCLC:

166317563