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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
2004.
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
149. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.