Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi

• Autore: Saxena Anju <1959->
• Pubblicazione: Berlin/Boston : , : De Gruyter, Inc., , 2022; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 pages)
• Disciplina: 495/.47
• Soggetto topico: Western Pahari languages - India - Himachal Pradesh; Western Pahari languages
• Soggetto geografico: India Himachal Pradesh
• Altri autori: BorinLars
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Volumes in the Trends in Linguistics. Documentation series focus on the presentation of linguistic data. The series addresses the sustained interest in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, grammars and editions of under-described and hitherto undocumented languages. All world-regions and time periods are represented.
• Titolo autorizzato: Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi
• ISBN: 3-11-070324-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996463251803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC]