03907nam 2200625Ia 450 991046203610332120211105022607.03-11-089887-X10.1515/9783110898873(CKB)2670000000250889(EBL)938713(OCoLC)811407687(SSID)ssj0000559854(PQKBManifestationID)11344690(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000559854(PQKBWorkID)10583541(PQKB)10470919(MiAaPQ)EBC938713(WaSeSS)Ind00014218(DE-B1597)56285(OCoLC)979628598(DE-B1597)9783110898873(Au-PeEL)EBL938713(CaPaEBR)ebr10597655(EXLCZ)99267000000025088920040106d2004 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrHimalayan languages[electronic resource] past and present /edited by Anju SaxenaBerlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyter20041 online resource (444 p.)Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;149Description based upon print version of record.3-11-017841-9 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Front matter --Introduction --Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world - The study of Himalayan languages /Saxena, Anju --Descriptive linguistics --A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects /Schmidt, Ruth Laila --Retroflex vowels and other peculiarities in the Kalasha sound system /Heegård, Jan / Mørch, Ida Elisabeth --Direction and differential dative case marking in Magar /Grunow-Hårsta, Karen --Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective /Turin, Mark --Hidden syntax in Belhare /Bickel, Balthasar --On the notion of sentence in Classical Tibetan /Oetke, Claus --On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives /Saxena, Anju --Language change --Preverbal modifiers in Sunwar /Winter, Werner --Directional prefixes in Kathmandu Newar /Hargreaves, David --Grammaticalization of deictic motion verbs in Seke /Honda, Isao --"Do" as subordinator in Tshangla /Andvik, Erik --Morphosyntactic transparency in Bantawa /Gvozdanović, Jadranka --Areal semantics - Is there such a thing? /Matisoff, James A. --Shafer's proto-West Bodish hypothesis and the formation of the Tibetan verb paradigms /Bielmeier, Roland --Newaric and Mahakiranti /van Driem, George --Subject index --Language indexWith its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its great cultural diversity, and its widespread multilingualism - both the stable and transient kind - the Himalayan region is a treasure trove of empirical data for research on language typology and universals, historical linguistics, language contact and areal linguistics. Himalayan Languages contains an overview of Himalayan linguistics, synchronic studies of individual languages, and papers on the historical and areal linguistics of language families and languages in the region, contributed by some of the leading experts in the field.Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]Tibeto-Burman languagesCongressesHimalaya Mountains RegionLanguagesCongressesElectronic books.Tibeto-Burman languages495/.4Saxena Anju1959-847625Himalayan Languages Symposium(7th :2001 :Uppsala, Sweden)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462036103321Himalayan languages1893175UNINA