Trans-Himalayan linguistics
by Hill, Nathan Wayne Owen-Smith, Thomas
The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. This volume brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region.
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- Full title :Trans-Himalayan linguistics / edited by Thomas Owen-Smith and Nathan W. Hill.
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The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. This volume brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):De Gruyter Mouton
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (452 pages) : : maps.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783110310832, 311031083X, 3110310740, 9783110310740
- oclc:ocn878137099
- LC Classification:PL3781
- Dewey Decimal:495/.4
Table of Contents
Trans-Himalayan / George van Driem -- Creolization in the divergence of the Tibeto-Burman languages / Scott DeLancey -- Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages / Roger Blench and Mark W. Post -- The Tibetic languages and their classification / Nicolas Tournadre -- Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon / Isao Honda -- A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish / Gwendolyn Hyslop -- Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo-European origin / Ilija Čašule -- Subject and object agreement in Shumcho / Christian Huber -- The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na : a synchronic description and analysis / Alexis Michaud -- Rengmitca : the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh / David A. Peterson -- Initial grammatical sketch of Tilung / Jean Robert Opgenort -- Tshangla phonology and a standard Tshangla orthography / Tim Bodt.
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