LEADER 04665nam 2200385 450 001 9910557839803321 005 20230517112354.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110703245 035 $a(CKB)5600000000446233 035 $a(NjHacI)995600000000446233 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000446233 100 $a20230517d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aSynchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi /$fAnju Saxena, Lars Borin, editors 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter Mouton,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) 225 0 $aTrends in linguistics 311 $a3-11-070327-0 327 $aFrontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Synchrony: description -- 1 Introduction: Kanashi, its speakers, its linguistic and extralinguistic context -- 2 The sound system of Kanashi -- 3 A linguistic sketch of Kanashi -- Synchrony: variation -- 4 Linguistic variation: a challenge for describing the phonology of Kanashi -- 5 And then there was one: Kanashi numerals from borrowed superdiversity to borrowed uniformity -- Diachrony -- 6 Clues to Kanashi prehistory 1: loanword adaptation in nouns and adjectives -- 7 Clues to Kanashi prehistory 2: loanword adaptation in verbs -- Synthesis -- 8 Kanashi and West Himalayish: genealogy, language contact, prehistoric migrations -- Kanashi basic vocabulary -- 9 Kanashi basic vocabulary -- Subject and language index. 330 $aKanashi, a Sino-Tibetan (ST) language belonging to the West Himalayish (WH) subbranch of this language family, is spoken in one single village (Malana in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh state, India), which is surrounded by villages where - entirely unrelated - Indo-Aryan (IA) languages are spoken. Until we started working on Kanashi, very little linguistic material was available. Researchers have long speculated about the prehistory of Kanashi: how did it happen that it ended up spoken in one single village, completely cut off from its closest linguistic relatives? Even though suggestions have been made of a close genealogical relation between Kanashi and Kinnauri (another WH language), at present separated by over 200 km of rugged mountainous terrain, their shared linguistic features have not been discussed in the literature. Based on primary fieldwork, this volume presents some synchronic and diachronic aspects of Kanashi. The synchronic description of Kanashi includes a general introduction on Malana and the Kanashi language community (chapter 1), linguistic descriptions of its sound system (chapter 2), of phonological variation in Kanashi (chapter 4), of its grammar (chapter 3) and of its intriguing numeral systems (chapter 5), as well as basic vocabulary lists (Kanashi-English, English-Kanashi) (chapter 9). As for the diachronic and genealogical aspects (chapters 6-8), we compare and contrast Kanashi with other ST languages of this region (in particular languages of Kinnaur, notably Kinnauri), thereby uncovering some intriguing linguistic features common to Kanashi and Kinnauri which provide insights into their common history. For instance: a subset of borrowed IA nouns and adjectives in both languages end in -(a)? or -(a)s, elements which do not otherwise appear in Kanashi or Kinnauri, nor in the IA donor languages (chapter 6); and both languages have a valency changing mechanism where the valency increasing marker -ja? alternates with the intransitive marker -e(d) in borrowed IA verbs (again: elements without an obvious provenance in the donor or recipient language) (chapter 7). These features are neither found in IA languages nor in the WH languages geographically closest to Kanashi (Pattani, Bunan, Tinani), but only in Kinnauri, which is spoken further away. Intriguingly, traces of some of these features are also found in some ST languages belonging to different ST subgroups (both WH and non-WH), spoken in Uttarakhand in India and in western Nepal (e.g. Rongpo, Chaudangsi, Raji and Raute). This raises fundamental questions regarding genealogical classification, language contact and prehistory of the WH group of languages and of this part of the Indian Himalayas, which are also discussed in the volume (chapter 8). 606 $aWestern Pahari languages 615 0$aWestern Pahari languages. 676 $a491.49 702 $aSaxena$b Anju 702 $aBorin$b Lars 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910557839803321 996 $aSynchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi$92814258 997 $aUNINA