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Linguistics of the Himalayas and beyond /

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. For the first time emphasis is put on the study of the many differe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bielmeier, Roland, Haller, Felix
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2007.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 196.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.