A Bantawa Dictionary

A Bantawa Dictionary
Author: Werner Winter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2003
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783110177107

Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.

A Bantawa Dictionary

A Bantawa Dictionary
Author: Werner Winter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2011-06-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110898314

Bantawa, spoken in Eastern Nepal, is the most widely used of the Rai languages, an important subgroup of the Kiranti group of Tibeto-Burman languages. This dictionary, based on material obtained in the context of the Linguistic Survey of Nepal, concise though it is, stands out as the most voluminous of the few dictionaries and word lists for Rai languages that were hitherto published with English equivalents of native forms provided. The fact that both a Bantawa-English and an English-Bantawa part give access to the forms makes the book an important research tool for specialists in Kiranti languages as well as for scholars concerned with Tibeto-Burman and Nepal studies in general.

Here – Hither – Hence and Related Categories

Here – Hither – Hence and Related Categories
Author: Julia Nintemann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110672642

As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial interrogatives (Studia Typologica 20), the present book examines the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by the expression class of spatial deictic adverbs. In a functionally motivated typological approach, equivalents of Early Modern English here – hither – hence and there – thither – thence are identified across a sample of 250 languages from all macro-areas. These are also quantitatively assessed to extrapolate areal and global trends of coding patterns. The formal relationships between spatial interrogative and spatial declarative paradigms are analyzed with a focus on the syncretism of categories and of individual cells. Qualitative discussions of patterns precede in-depth treatments of problematic cases and other relevant issues related to the research topic. The quantitative results strongly point to areal linguistic trends concerning the distribution of distinct and non-distinct coding of the three spatial relations Place, Goal, and Source. Additional aspects such as quantitative evaluations of constructional complexity are addressed subsequently.

Tocharian Studies

Tocharian Studies
Author: Václav Blažek
Publisher: Masarykova univerzita
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 8021076453

Kniha je souborem studií věnovaných tocharské etymologii a gramatice a obsahuje i dva životopisné a bibliografické portréty dvou osobností tocharistiky: Wernera Wintera a Pavla Pouchy.

A Grammar of Jero

A Grammar of Jero
Author: Jean Robert Opgenort
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2005-06-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9047415086

This description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the endangered (Tibeto-Burman) Jero language as spoken in eastern Nepal, appears in sequel to the author's 2004 Grammar of Wambule, the language most closely related to Jero. It pictures the complex-pronominalising language of the Jero Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal. With a historical comparative study of the Kiranti languages, the branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family to which both Jero and Wambule belong. An exhaustive and model reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology and linguistic theory. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).

Language in Time and Space

Language in Time and Space
Author: Brigitte L.M. Bauer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110897725

The honoree of this Festschrift has for many years now marked modern trends in diachronic and synchronic linguistics by his own publications and by stimulating those of numerous others. This collection of articles presents data-oriented studies that integrate modern and traditional approaches in the field, thus reflecting the honoree's contribution to contemporary linguistics. The articles relate to comparative data from (early) Indo-European languages and a variety of other languages and discuss the theoretical implications of phenomena such as linguistic universals, reconstruction, and language classification.

Language History and Linguistic Modelling

Language History and Linguistic Modelling
Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 2184
Release: 2010-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110820757

This work presents a collection of some 130 contributions covering a wide range of topics of interest to historical, theoretical and applied linguistics alike. A major theme is the development of English which is examined on several levels in the light of recent linguistic theory in various papers. The geographical dimension is also treated extensively with papers on controversial aspects of a variety of studies, as are topical linguistic matters from a more general perspective.