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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bielmeier, Roland.

Haller, Felix.

Series:

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 196

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 196

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Tibeto-Burman languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The approximately 250 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family are spoken by 65 million speakers in ten different countries including Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and China/Tibet. They are characterized by a fascinating linguistic, historical and cultural diversity. The languages spoken in the Himalayas, on their southern slopes and on the high Tibetan plateau in the north constitute the core of this diversity. Thus, the 21 papers mainly deal with these languages and some go even beyond to the area of the Blue Lake in northern Amdo and to southern Kham within linguistic Tibet. The ten papers dedicated to Tibetan linguistic studies offer approaches to the phonological analysis of Balti, to labial place assimilation, perfective stem renovation and stem alternation connected with verbal valence in Amdo Tibetan, to directional markers in Tokpe Gola in northeastern Nepal, to secondary verb constructions in Kham Tibetan, to narrative texts in Dzongkha, to case-marking patterns in various Tibetan dialects and to language history of Tibetan in general. Other papers deal with deictic patterns and narratives in western Himalayan Kinnauri and with the classification of neighbouring Bunan. With the Tamangic languages of northern Nepal the relationship between vowels and consonants and the development of demonstratives and plural markers are addressed. A further paper investigates the genetic relationship between Dzala and Dakpa, two East Bodish languages, and another one case-marking in Rabha and Manipuri in northeastern India. With the Kiranti languages Sampang, Limbu, Chaurasia and Sunwar in eastern Nepal, questions of accent, pronominally marked determiners, subclassification and language shift are discussed. The impressive selection of languages and linguistic topics dealt with in this book underlines the diversity of the Tibeto-Burman languages in Central and South Asia and highlights their place within present-day linguistic research. The results achieved by leading experts are remarkable in general, and the book is of interest to linguists, anthropologists and geographers.

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110968996

3110968991

OCLC:

843206734