Studies in Tibeto-Himalayan languages
Author : D. D. Sharma
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Balti language
ISBN : 9788170995159
Himalayan Languages
Author : Anju Saxena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311089887X
Book 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.
Trans-Himalayan Linguistics
Author : Thomas Owen-Smith
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311031083X
Book Description
The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia's heart, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. Historical developments and relationships between the region's languages also remain poorly understood. This book 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. The volume arises from papers given and topics discussed at the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium in London in 2010. Most papers focus on Tibeto-Burman languages. These include topics relating to individual - mostly small and endangered - languages, such as Tilung, Shumcho, Rengmitca, Yongning Na and Tshangla; comparative research on the Tibetic, East Bodish and Tamangic language groups; and several papers whose scope covers the whole language family. The remaining paper deals with the origins of Burushaski, whose genetic affiliation remains uncertain. This book will be of special interest to scholars of Tibeto-Burman, and historical as well as general linguists.
Studies in Tibeto-Himalayan Linguistics
Author : Devīdatta Śarmā
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Himachal Pradesh (India)
ISBN :
Book Description
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 4: A Grammar of Kulung
Author : Gerard Tolsma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9047418166
Book Description
This book is the first description of Kulung, a complex-pronominalising Kiranti (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in eastern Nepal. This grammar of Kulung is an exhaustive reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, and linguistic theory.
Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV
Author : Nathan Hill
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004232028
Book Description
While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model.
A Grammar of Dhimal
Author : King John T.
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004175733
Book Description
The present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little known and endangered tongue spoken in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal by about 20,000 individuals, is detailed in this work. With data gathered in the village of hiy b r , the author crafts a readable description of the western dialect, using over 1000 examples to illustrate usage. Included in this reference work are seventeen texts, riddles, songs and a Dhimal-English glossary. Joining other recent ground-breaking linguistic descriptions by researchers from the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University, this grammar of Dhimal will have lasting scientific value and aid the Dhimal community in preserving their language.
The Sino-Tibetan Languages
Author : Randy J. LaPolla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2006-05-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 113579717X
Book Description
There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.
Tibeto-Himalayan Languages of Uttarkhand
Author : Devīdatta Śarmā
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Dzongkha language
ISBN :
Book Description
Himalayan Languages and Linguistics
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004216537
Book Description
Himalayan Languages and Linguistics gathers together nine outstanding and original contributions on the Tibeto-Burman and Indo-Aryan languages of this important and culturally diverse mountainous area. Filling a marked gap in our understanding of the languages of this underdocumented region, the collection offers a snapshot of the state of the field of Himalayan language research and linguistic comparison. Drawing on primary fieldwork in China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, as well as on comparative sources, the new analyses outlined in these contributions will interest a readership of linguists, philologists, anthropologists, historians, lexicographers and specialists in the languages and cultures of Inner and South Asia. Contributions cover topics as diverse as linguistic palaeontology, orthographical standardisation, dialectology, phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax.
