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A grammar of Dhimal /
This groundbreaking reference work is a linguistic description of the western dialect of Dhimal, a hitherto little-known and endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 20,000 individuals of the same name in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal and northeastern India.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Brill's Tibetan studies library ;
v. 5/8. Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- CONTENTS; EDITORIAL FOREWORD; LIST OF FIGURES; ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVENTIONS.; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER TWO: PHONOLOGY; CHAPTER THREE: NOMINAL MORPHOLOGY; CHAPTER FOUR: VERBAL MORPHOLOGY; CHAPTER FIVE: THE SENTENCE; TEXT ONE: COURTING; TEXT TWO: CATCHING RATS; TEXT THREE: HUNTING MONITOR LIZARDS; TEXT FOUR: THE LOWLAND STRONG MAN; TEXT FIVE: THE TIGER AND THE YOGI; TEXT SIX: THE SPLITTING OF THE BANANA LEAF; TEXT SEVEN: THE JACKAL AND THE BEAR; TEXT EIGHT: THE SNAKE HUSBAND; TEXT NINE: THE BOY AND THE KING'S DAUGHTER; TEXT TEN: THE EVIL STEPMOTHER.
- TEXT ELEVEN: WHERE CHICKENS COME FROMTEXT TWELVE: SHIT EATER; TEXT THIRTEEN: THE SICK ONE; TEXT FOURTEEN: MAKING RICE BEER; TEXT FIFTEEN: WEDDING CEREMONY; TEXT SIXTEEN: ASARE CELEBRATION; TEXT SEVENTEEN: LATER CLAN WORSHIP DURING PARBA; RIDDLES; SONGS; INFLEXIONAL PARADIGMS; KINSHIP TERMS; DHIMAL-ENGLISH GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY.