Languages of the Himalayas
Author | : George van Driem |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 924 |
Release | : 2022-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004514929 |
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Author | : George van Driem |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 924 |
Release | : 2022-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004514929 |
Author | : George van Driem |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2022-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004514910 |
The survey work Languages of the Himalayas provides a bird's eye view of Himalayan languages and language communities. It also constitutes a primary source for much new, hitherto unpublished data on several languages. The demographic mosaic of the Himalayas today is viewed in a historical and comparative linguistic perspective. The reader will find an outline of the historical and prehistorical developments that have determined the modern ethnolinguistic composition of the Himalayan region, involving various independent linguistics stocks or language families. Maps illustrate the distribution of language communities and trace the routes of ancient migrations. There is an illuminating discussion of grammatical features found in Himalayan languages. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004103900).
Author | : Anju Saxena |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 311089887X |
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 universals, historical linguistics, language contact and areal linguistics. Himalayan Languages contains contributions on Himalayan linguistics written by some of the leading experts in the field. The volume is divided into three parts: First, a general overview is given of the linguistic study of Himalayan languages and language communities. The second part offers synchronic studies of individual languages of the region (Indo-Aryan languages Shina and Kalasha, and Tibeto-Burman languages Belhare, Magar, Kinnauri, Classical Tibetan and Thangmi). The papers in the third part of the volume address topics in historical and areal linguistics, with an emphasis on the Tibeto-Burman languages of the region, discussing grammaticalization processes (in Sunwar, Newar, Seke, Tshangla and Bantawa) and the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman.
Author | : George van Driem |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Austronesian languages |
ISBN | : 9789004120624 |
Author | : Thomas Grahame Bailey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Chamba Lahuḷi dialect |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Heleen Plaisier |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004155252 |
This highly readable book is the first comprehensive reference grammar of the Lepcha language of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Kalimpong. This grammar explains the structure of the language, its sound system and salient features, and includes a lexicon and cultural history.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2011-04-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004216537 |
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.
Author | : Roland Bielmeier |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110968991 |
The approximately 250 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family are spoken by 65 million speakers in ten different countries including Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and China/Tibet. They are characterized by a fascinating linguistic, historical and cultural diversity. The languages spoken in the Himalayas, on their southern slopes and on the high Tibetan plateau in the north constitute the core of this diversity. Thus, the 21 papers mainly deal with these languages and some go even beyond to the area of the Blue Lake in northern Amdo and to southern Kham within linguistic Tibet. The ten papers dedicated to Tibetan linguistic studies offer approaches to the phonological analysis of Balti, to labial place assimilation, perfective stem renovation and stem alternation connected with verbal valence in Amdo Tibetan, to directional markers in Tokpe Gola in northeastern Nepal, to secondary verb constructions in Kham Tibetan, to narrative texts in Dzongkha, to case-marking patterns in various Tibetan dialects and to language history of Tibetan in general. Other papers deal with deictic patterns and narratives in western Himalayan Kinnauri and with the classification of neighbouring Bunan. With the Tamangic languages of northern Nepal the relationship between vowels and consonants and the development of demonstratives and plural markers are addressed. A further paper investigates the genetic relationship between Dzala and Dakpa, two East Bodish languages, and another one case-marking in Rabha and Manipuri in northeastern India. With the Kiranti languages Sampang, Limbu, Chaurasia and Sunwar in eastern Nepal, questions of accent, pronominally marked determiners, subclassification and language shift are discussed. The impressive selection of languages and linguistic topics dealt with in this book underlines the diversity of the Tibeto-Burman languages in Central and South Asia and highlights their place within present-day linguistic research. The results achieved by leading experts are remarkable in general, and the book is of interest to linguists, anthropologists and geographers.
Author | : Anju Saxena |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2022-05-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004513647 |
This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in Kinnaur, are described both individually and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology that extends into the surrounding wider Himalayan region. The author combines traditional linguistic description and a quantitative computational procedure to disentangle genealogical and areal characteristics of the languages of Kinnaur.