Himalayan languages : past and present / edited by Anju Saxena.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Saxena, Anju, 1959-

Conference Name:

Himalayan Languages Symposium (7th : 2001 : Uppsala, Sweden)

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 149

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibeto-Burman languages--Congresses.

Tibeto-Burman languages.

Himalaya Mountains Region--Languages--Congresses.

Himalaya Mountains Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Introduction

Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world - The study of Himalayan languages / Saxena, Anju

Descriptive linguistics

A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects / Schmidt, Ruth Laila

Retroflex vowels and other peculiarities in the Kalasha sound system / Heegård, Jan / Mørch, Ida Elisabeth

Direction and differential dative case marking in Magar / Grunow-Hårsta, Karen

Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective / Turin, Mark

Hidden syntax in Belhare / Bickel, Balthasar

On the notion of sentence in Classical Tibetan / Oetke, Claus

On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives / Saxena, Anju

Language change

Preverbal modifiers in Sunwar / Winter, Werner

Directional prefixes in Kathmandu Newar / Hargreaves, David

Grammaticalization of deictic motion verbs in Seke / Honda, Isao

"Do" as subordinator in Tshangla / Andvik, Erik

Morphosyntactic transparency in Bantawa / Gvozdanović, Jadranka

Areal semantics - Is there such a thing? / Matisoff, James A.

Shafer's proto-West Bodish hypothesis and the formation of the Tibetan verb paradigms / Bielmeier, Roland

Newaric and Mahakiranti / van Driem, George

Subject index

Language index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110898873

311089887X

OCLC:

811407687