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Himalayan languages : past and present /

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 univers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Himalayan Languages Symposium
Otros Autores: Saxena, Anju, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 149.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world : the study of Himalayan languages / Anju Saxena
  • A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects / Ruth Laila Schmidt
  • Retroflex vowels and other peculiarities in the Kalasha sound system / Jan Heegård and Ida Elisabeth Mørch
  • Direction and differential dative case marking in Magar / Karen Grunow-Hårsta
  • Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective / Mark Turin
  • Hidden syntax in Belhare / Balthasar Bickel
  • On the notion of sentence in Classical Tibetan / Claus Oetke
  • On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives / Anju Saxena
  • Preverbal modifiers in Sunwar / Werner Winter
  • Directional prefixes in Kathmandu Newar / David Hargreaves
  • Grammaticalization of deictic motion verbs in Seke / Isao Honda
  • "Do" as subordinator in Tshangla / Erik Andvik
  • Morphosyntactic transparency in Bantawa / Jadranka Gvozdanović
  • Areal semantics : is there such a thing? / James A. Matisoff
  • Shafer's proto-West Bodish hypothesis and the formation of the Tibetan verb paradigms / Roland Bielmeier
  • Newaric and Mahakiranti / George van Driem.