Himalayan Languages and Linguistics ：Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology and Syntax ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology and Syntax

Publication series ：1

Author： Turin   Mark;Zeisler   Bettina  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2011

E-ISBN: 9789004216532

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004194489

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004194489

Subject： H42 the Tibeto - Burman

Language： ENG

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Description

Himalayan Languages and Linguistics is an edited collection of new and unpublished primary research findings, some fresh from the field and others derived from comparative textual material, on the Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan and Austroasiatic languages of this important and underdocumented mountainous region.

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Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Notes on contributors

pp.：  7 – 8

Introduction

pp.：  9 – 18

PART ONE: The Himalayas in history

pp.：  19 – 46

Lost in the sands of time somewhere north of the Bay of Bengal

pp.：  21 – 46

PART TWO: Phonology and script

pp.：  47 – 82

A key to four transcription systems of Lepcha

pp.：  49 – 62

Dialectal particularities of Sogpho Tibetan – an introduction to the “Twenty-four villages’ patois”

pp.：  63 – 82

PART THREE: Semantics (words and word classes)

pp.：  83 – 138

On the Old Tibetan Term Khrin in the legal and ritual lexicons

pp.：  85 – 106

A functional analysis of adjectives in Newar

pp.：  107 – 138

PART FOUR: Morphology and syntax

pp.：  139 – 310

The role of animacy in the verbal morphology of Dongwang Tibetan

pp.：  141 – 190

The Sampang verbal agreement system

pp.：  191 – 226

Ergativity in Kundal Shahi, Kashmiri and Hindko

pp.：  227 – 242

Kenhat, the dialects of Upper Ladakh and Zanskar

pp.：  243 – 310

Index

pp.：  311 – 330

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