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Author | : Umbavu Joseph |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 892 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9047404696 |
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The Rabha’s inhabit the plains on both sides of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, in the North East of India. Their language is Rabha, a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family. This is the first ever comprehensive grammar of the Róngdani dialect of Rabha, as spoken in, a.o., the Rabha heartlands. Based on extensive field work by the author, this work is yet another significant step in the meticulous task of piecing together the jigsaw of Himalayan languages as undertaken by George van Driem and his team. Given the steady decline of the Rabha language in favour of Assamese, all those interested in the language and history of the Himalayas and Northern India will welcome this volume. With a Rabha dictionary/vocabulary, and a series of key Rabha texts shedding light on its people’s customs. With financial support of the International Institute of Asian Studies.
Author | : Hongkai Sun |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9047430301 |
Download Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 9 A Grammar of Anong Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu. In the almost fifty years, Sun Hongkai has been documenting the Anong language of Yunnan China, it has undergone radical, contact-induced changes. The language of the less than forty remaining speakers is quite different than the Anong of forty years ago. Under intense contact with Lisu, major change has occurred in the language, much of it documented in this work of Sun's. The English edition is a reworking of the original Chinese version, providing annotation, an expanded lexicon, and an appendix that contains an instrumental study of the language.
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Release | : 2009 |
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Author | : John T. King |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2009-05-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9047429176 |
Download Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 8 A Grammar of Dhimal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : George van Driem |
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Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Heleen Plaisier |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9047411595 |
Download Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 5 A Grammar of Lepcha Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Lepcha language has been shrouded in a veil of tantalising mystique ever since Colonel George Mainwaring in the 1870s disseminated the myth that Lepcha was the most perfect of tongues and represented the primordial language of men and fairies. The present book is the first ever comprehensive reference grammar of this language, spoken by the indigenous tribal people of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Kalimpong. Some popular lore about Lepcha has a firm basis in fact, however. Lepcha represents a branch unto itself within the Tibeto-Burman languages. Lepcha is written in its own unique script. This highly readable grammar explains the structure of the language, its sound system and salient features, and includes a lexicon and cultural history. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).
Author | : Paul Sidwell |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 983 |
Release | : 2021-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110558149 |
Download The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.
Author | : Gerard Tolsma |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9047418166 |
Download Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 4: A Grammar of Kulung Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is the first description of Kulung, a complex-pronominalising Kiranti (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in eastern Nepal. This grammar of Kulung is an exhaustive reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, and linguistic theory.
Author | : Graham Thurgood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1268 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1315399482 |
Download The Sino-Tibetan Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Our records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them has multiplied in the last few decades. Now in its second edition and fully updated to include new research, The Sino-Tibetan Languages includes overview articles on individual languages, with an emphasis on the less commonly described languages, as well as descriptions and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. There are overviews of the whole family on genetic classification and language contact, syntax and morphology, and also on word order typology. There are also more detailed overview articles on the phonology, morphosyntax, and writing system of just the Sinitic side of the family. Supplementing these overviews are articles on Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. Tibeto-Burman is reviewed by genetic or geographical sub-group, with overview articles on some of the major groups and areas, and there are also detailed descriptions of 41 individual Tibeto-Burman languages, written by world experts in the field. Designed for students and researchers of Asian languages, The Sino-Tibetan Languages is a detailed overview of the field. This book is invaluable to language students, experts requiring concise, but thorough, information on related languages, and researchers working in historical, typological and comparative linguistics.
Author | : Jan Michiel Otto |
Publisher | : Leiden University Press |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9789087280581 |
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This is the same edition as 9789057890024 This Dzongkha textbook by George van Driem provides a practical introduction to the national language of Bhutan for both linguist and layman. The script, phonology and grammar of Dzongkha are explained at length in eight chapters. The phonological romanization officially known as Roman Dzongkha, employed throughout the book, makes the course suitable both for learners who wish to master the Bhutanese script as well as for those who wish to acquire only a spoken command of the language. Each chapter is followed by a section of translation and reading exercises with vocabulary lists. A description of the ethnolinguistic composition of the Himalayan kingdom is provided in an introduction. An answer key to the exercises and several appendices are to be found in the back of the book. The Dzongkha textbook comes with a set of audio compact disks in a multibox, containing a digital soundtrack narrated by a native speaker of the prestige dialect of Dzongkha from western Bhutan. Book and cd's are sold as a set and are not available separately. An essential book for anyone who wants to learn Dzongkha. incl. appendices & bibliogr. and 3 cd's