Trans-Himalayan linguistics /
The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. This volume brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Walter De Gruyter,
[2014]
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
266. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Trans-Himalayan; Creolization in the Divergence of the Tibeto-Burman Languages; Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages; The Tibetic languages and their classification; Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon; A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish; Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo-European origin; Subject and object agreement in Shumcho; The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na: a synchronic description and analysis; Rengmitca: the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh.
- Initial Grammatical Sketch of TilungTshangla Phonology and a Standard Tshangla Orthography; Index.