Tribal Languages of Ladakh: A concise grammar and dictionary of Brok-skad
Author : D. D. Sharma
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Balti language
ISBN :
Author : D. D. Sharma
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Balti language
ISBN :
Author : D. D. Sharma
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Balti language
ISBN :
Author : Devīdatta Śarmā
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Ladākhi language
ISBN : 9788170996163
Author : Devi D. Sharma
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Balti language
ISBN : 9788170999331
This Part Presents An Account Of 2 Prominent Ladakhi Dialects-Purki And Balti Along With Notes On Their Linguistic Sub-Starata And Inter-Relationship With Ladakhi And Other Speeches Of Teh Regions. This Is In Fact A Descriptive Grammar Of These 2 Dialects Purkhi And Balti.
Author : Devīdatta Śarmā
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Balti language
ISBN : 9788170995296
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004216537
Himalayan Languages and Linguistics is an edited collection of new and unpublished primary research findings, some fresh from the field and others derived from comparative textual material, on the Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan and Austroasiatic languages of this important and underdocumented mountainous region.
Author : Devīdatta Śarmā
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Balti language
ISBN : 9788170996163
Author : George van Driem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9004514929
Author : Bettina Zeisler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 39,32 MB
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110908182
This study presents a comparative approach to a universal theory of TENSE, ASPECT and MOOD, combining the methods of comparative and historical linguistics, fieldwork, text linguistics, and philology. The parts of the book discuss and describe (i) the concepts of TENSE, ASPECT and MOOD; (ii) the Tibetan system of RELATIVE TENSE and aspectual values, with main sections on Old and Classical Tibetan, “Lhasa” Tibetan, and East Tibetan (Amdo and Kham); and (iii) West Tibetan (Ladakhi, Purik, Balti); Part (iv) presents the comparative view. Discussing the similarities and differences of temporal and aspectual concepts, the study rejects the general claim that ASPECT is a linguistic universal. A new linguistic concept, FRAMING, is introduced in order to account for the aspect-like conceptualisations found in, e.g., English. The concept of RELATIVE TENSE or taxis, may likewise not be universal. Among the Tibetan varieties, West Tibetan is unique in having fully grammaticalized the concept of ABSOLUTE TENSE. West Tibetan is compared diachronically with Old and Classical Tibetan (documented since the mid 8th century) and synchronically with several contemporary Tibetan varieties. The grammaticalized forms of each variety are described on the basis of their employment in discourse. The underlying general function of the Tibetan verbal system is thus shown to be that of RELATIVE TENSE. Secondary aspectual functions are described for restricted contexts. A special focus on the pragmatic or metaphorical use of present tense constructions in Tibetan leads to a typology of narrative conventions. The last part also offers some suggestions for the reconstruction of the Proto-Tibetan verb system.
Author : Francesca Di Garbo
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release :
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3961101787
The many facets of grammatical gender remain one of the most fruitful areas of linguistic research, and pose fascinating questions about the origins and development of complexity in language. The present work is a two-volume collection of 13 chapters on the topic of grammatical gender seen through the prism of linguistic complexity. The contributions discuss what counts as complex and/or simple in grammatical gender systems, whether the distribution of gender systems across the world’s languages relates to the language ecology and social history of speech communities. Contributors demonstrate how the complexity of gender systems can be studied synchronically, both in individual languages and over large cross-linguistic samples, and diachronically, by exploring how gender systems change over time. In addition to three chapters on the theoretical foundations of gender complexity, volume one contains six chapters on grammatical gender and complexity in individual languages and language families of Africa, New Guinea, and South Asia. This volume is complemented by volume two, which consists of three chapters providing diachronic and typological case studies, followed by a final chapter discussing old and new theoretical and empirical challenges in the study of the dynamics of gender complexity.