Linguistics of the Himalayas and beyond [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Roland Bielmeier, Felix Haller

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Disciplina: 833/.914
• Soggetto topico: Tibeto-Burman languages - Himalaya Mountains Region - Grammar
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BielmeierRoland HallerFelix
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Reasons for language shift : theories, myths, and counterevidence / Dörte Borchers -- Directionals in Tokpe Gola Tibetan discourse / Nancy J. Caplow -- The language history of Tibetan / Philip Denwood -- Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts / George van Driem -- Stem alternation and verbal valence in Themchen Tibetan / Felix Haller -- A comparative and historical study of demonstratives and plural markers in Tamangic languages / Isao Honda -- Grammatical peculiarities of two dialects of southern Kham Tibetan / Krisadawan Hongladarom -- The Sampang word accent : phonetic realisation and phonological function / René Huysmans -- A low glide in Marphali / Martine Mazaudon -- Pronominally marked noun determiners in Limbu / Boyd Michailovsky -- About Chaurasia / Jean Robert Opgenort -- Implications of labial place assimilation in Amdo Tibetan / Karl A. Peet -- Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives / Anju Saxena -- The status of Bunan in the Tibeto-Burman family / Suhnu Ram Sharma -- Tibetan orthography, the Balti dialect, and a contemporary phonological theory / Richard K. Sprigg -- Case-marked PRO : evidence from Rabha, Manipuri, Hindi-Urdu, and Telugu / Karumuri Venkata Subbarao, Upen Rabha Hakacham, and Thokchom Sarju Devi -- Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan / Jackson T.-S. Sun -- On the deictic patterns in Kinnauri (Pangi dialect) / Yoshiharu Takahashi -- Tibetan grammar and the active/stative case-marking type / Ralf Vollmann -- The nature of narrative text in Dzongkha : evidence from deixis, evidentiality, and mirativity / Stephen A. Watters -- Case patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi : a field report / Bettina Zeisler.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Linguistics of the Himalayas and beyond
• ISBN: 3-11-096899-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464242603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]