Himalayan Languages: Past and Present
by Saxena, Anju
Review text: "With topics from descriptive Dardic phonology, to comparative Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax and genealogy, and universals of semantic change, this collection proves to be a diverse set of papers that would be of interest to any linguist specializing in the Himalayas, or any of the other topics mentioned here."Gwendolyn Lowes in: Journal of Himalayan Linguistics 2006.
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Review text: "With topics from descriptive Dardic phonology, to comparative Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax and genealogy, and universals of semantic change, this collection proves to be a diverse set of papers that would be of interest to any linguist specializing in the Himalayas, or any of the other topics mentioned here."Gwendolyn Lowes in: Journal of Himalayan Linguistics 2006.
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- Publication Date:2004
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- Publisher(s):De Gruyter, De Gruyter Mouton
- Place of Publication:Berlin/Boston
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2004
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- Description:Online-Ressource.
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- ISBN:9783110898873, 311089887X, 3110178419, 9783110178418
- DOI:10.1515/9783110898873
- oclc:ocn853253878
- LC Classification:PL3781
- Dewey Decimal:490
Table of Contents
Introduction; Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world -- The study of Himalayan languages; Descriptive linguistics; A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects; Retroflex vowels and other peculiarities in the Kalasha sound system; Direction and differential dative case marking in Magar; Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective; Hidden syntax in Belhare; On the notion of sentence in Classical Tibetan; On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives; Language change; Preverbal modifiers in Sunwar; Directional prefixes in Kathmandu Newar.
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