Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar

Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar
Title Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar PDF eBook
Author Dörte Borchers
Publisher BRILL
Pages 344
Release 2008-05-31
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9047433491

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This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. Verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references are also presented. Contact between the Sunwar and Nepali languages resulted in language change, most visible in the verbal system, where the older biactantial agreement system typical for Kiranti languages disappeared and suffix conjugations emerged. This book will interest those interested in descriptive linguistics, language change and languages of South Asia.

Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 8 A Grammar of Dhimal

Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 8 A Grammar of Dhimal
Title Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 8 A Grammar of Dhimal PDF eBook
Author John T. King
Publisher BRILL
Pages 633
Release 2009-05-20
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9047429176

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The present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little known and endangered tongue spoken in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal by about 20,000 individuals, is detailed in this work. With data gathered in the village of Āṭhiyābārī, the author crafts a readable description of the western dialect, using over 1000 examples to illustrate usage. Included in this reference work are seventeen texts, riddles, songs and a Dhimal-English glossary. Joining other recent ground-breaking linguistic descriptions by researchers from the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University, this grammar of Dhimal will have lasting scientific value and aid the Dhimal community in preserving their language.

Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 6: A Grammar of the Thangmi Language (2 vols)

Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 6: A Grammar of the Thangmi Language (2 vols)
Title Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 6: A Grammar of the Thangmi Language (2 vols) PDF eBook
Author Mark Turin
Publisher BRILL
Pages 1002
Release 2011-12-09
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9004223762

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This monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalcok in central-eastern Nepal. The language is spoken by upwards of 30,000 people belonging to an ethnic group of the same name. The Thangmi are one of Nepal’s least documented communities. These two volumes include a grammatical description of the Dolakha dialect of Thangmi, a collection of glossed oral texts and a comprehensive lexicon with relevant examples. In addition, the reader will find an extensive ethnolinguistic introduction to the speakers and their culture. For students and scholars of anthropology and linguistics, this study is a compelling illustration of the interweaving of these disciplines in the context of Himalayan studies. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).

Trends in South Asian Linguistics

Trends in South Asian Linguistics
Title Trends in South Asian Linguistics PDF eBook
Author Ghanshyam Sharma
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 533
Release 2021-11-08
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 3110753146

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The field of South Asian linguistics has undergone considerable growth and advancement in recent years, as a wider and more diverse range of languages have become subject to serious linguistic study, and as advancements in theoretical linguistics are applied to the rich linguistic data of South Asia. In this growth and diversity, it can be difficult to retain a broad grasp on the current state of the art, and to maintain a sense of the underlying unity of the field. This volume brings together twenty articles by leading scholars in South Asian linguistics, which showcase the cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in the field, and offer the reader a comprehensive introduction to the state of the art in South Asian linguistics. The contributions to the volume focus primarily on syntax and semantics, but also include important contributions on morphological and phonological questions. The contributions also cover a wide range of languages, from well-studied Indo-Aryan languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi, Bangla and Panjabi, through Dravidian languages to endangered and understudied Tibeto-Burman languages. This collection is a must-read for all scholars interested in current trends and advancements in South Asian linguistics.

A Grammar of Sunwar

A Grammar of Sunwar
Title A Grammar of Sunwar PDF eBook
Author Dörte Borchers
Publisher BRILL
Pages 345
Release 2008
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9004167099

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This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. Verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references are also presented. Contact between the Sunwar and Nepali languages resulted in language change, most visible in the verbal system, where the older biactantial agreement system typical for Kiranti languages disappeared and suffix conjugations emerged. This book will interest those interested in descriptive linguistics, language change and languages of South Asia.

A Grammar of Wambule

A Grammar of Wambule
Title A Grammar of Wambule PDF eBook
Author Jean Robert Opgenort
Publisher BRILL
Pages 948
Release 2004-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9004138315

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An exhaustive reference work for Wambule/Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, linguistic theory "and" Wambule society and culture, and as such indispensable for any linguistic and anthropological library.

A Grammar of Tshangla

A Grammar of Tshangla
Title A Grammar of Tshangla PDF eBook
Author Erik E. Andvik
Publisher BRILL
Pages 508
Release 2010
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9004178279

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"A Grammar of Tshangla" is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functional-typological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from spontaneously generated texts. It is a truly comprehensive description, including sections on phonology, lexicon, morphophonemics, morphosyntactic structure, clause-concatenating constructions, as well as discourse-pragmatic features. The volume will be of interest to language students, and to linguists and ethnographic scholars seeking to understand the Bhutanese and South Asian linguistic situation. The large amount of raw language data presented here make this "Grammar of Tshangla" an indispensable tool for students of Tibeto-Burman comparative linguistics and morphosyntactic theory in general.