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| Author | : Thomas Owen-Smith |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 2013-12-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311031083X |
Download Trans-Himalayan Linguistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia's heart, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. Historical developments and relationships between the region's languages also remain poorly understood. This book brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region. The volume arises from papers given and topics discussed at the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium in London in 2010. Most papers focus on Tibeto-Burman languages. These include topics relating to individual - mostly small and endangered - languages, such as Tilung, Shumcho, Rengmitca, Yongning Na and Tshangla; comparative research on the Tibetic, East Bodish and Tamangic language groups; and several papers whose scope covers the whole language family. The remaining paper deals with the origins of Burushaski, whose genetic affiliation remains uncertain. This book will be of special interest to scholars of Tibeto-Burman, and historical as well as general linguists.
| Author | : Guillaume Jacques |
| Publisher | : Language Science Press |
| Total Pages | : 1596 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3961103054 |
Download A grammar of Japhug Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Japhug is a vulnerable Gyalrongic language, which belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibetan) family. It is spoken by several thousand speakers in Mbarkham county, Rngaba district, Sichuan province, China. This grammar is the result of nearly 20 years of fieldwork on one variety of Japhug, based on a corpus of narratives and conversations, a large part of which is available from the Pangloss Collection. It covers the whole grammar of the language, and the text examples provide a unique insight into Gyalrong culture. It was written with a general linguistics audience in mind, and should prove useful not only to specialists of Trans-Himalayan historical linguistics and typologists, but also to anthropologists doing research in Gyalrong areas. It is also hoped that some readers will use it to learn Japhug and pursue research on this fascinating language in the future.
| Author | : Mark W. Post |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2017-05-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004344888 |
Download The Tangam Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tangam is a critically endangered Trans-Himalayan language spoken by 150 hilltribespeople in the Far Eastern Himalaya. This work presents a cultural, historical and grammatical introduction to the Tangam language, a trilingual lexicon in Tangam, English and Minyong, and analysed texts.
| Author | : Nathan W. Hill |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2019-08-08 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1107146488 |
Download The Historical Phonology of Tibetan, Burmese, and Chinese Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An original new perspective on the shared history of Burmese, Chinese, and Tibetan, with a particular focus on their phonological development.
| Author | : Mark Turin |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2011-04-21 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 9004194487 |
Download Himalayan Languages and Linguistics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Himalayan Languages and Linguistics is an edited collection of new and unpublished primary research findings, some fresh from the field and others derived from comparative textual material, on the Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan and Austroasiatic languages of this important and underdocumented mountainous region.
| Author | : Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Poumai Naga language |
| ISBN | : 9789004437982 |
Download Grammar of Poumai Naga (Poula) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first complete description of Poumai Naga (Poula), an understudied language spoken in Manipur in northeast India. Poumai Naga belongs to the Angami-Pochuri clade of the Trans-Himalayan family. The book comprises all aspects of the language, including phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax, syntax and discourse. This work employs the tone periodic table, an innovative method used for documenting tone languages. A bilingual lexicon and a collection of fully-analysed texts are provided in the appendices. This research work represents a substantial contribution to the field of comparative Trans-Himalayan linguistics.
| 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 | : Nicolas Schorer |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 474 |
| Release | : 2016-08-29 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004326405 |
Download The Dura Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In The Dura Language: Grammar & Phylogeny Nicolas Schorer provides the definite descriptive account of this poorly documented language of Nepal and investigates the phonology, nominal and verbal morphology, lexical and syntactic properties as well as the phylogeny of Dura.
| Author | : Selin Grollmann |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 530 |
| Release | : 2020-07-20 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004435239 |
Download A Grammar of Bjokapakha Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Grammar of Bjokapakha by Selin Grollmann constitutes the first description of Bjokapakha, an endangered language spoken in central Bhutan belonging to the Tshangla branch of Trans-Himalayan. This grammar comprises a description of the phonology, lexicon, nominal morphology, predicate structures and syntax. In addition to the descriptive parts, this book encompasses a historical-comparative account of Bjokapakha. The introductory chapter provides a comparison with the standard variety of Tshangla and corroborates the internal diversity of the Tshangla branch. The present-day structure of Bjokapakha verbal morphology is illuminated by means of an internal reconstruction. Moreover, this book contains a glossary and a text collection.
| Author | : Anju Saxena |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 445 |
| Release | : 2011-05-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 311089887X |
Download Himalayan Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its cultural diversity, and its widespread multilingualism- both the stable and transient kind- the Himalayan region is a treasure trove of empirical data for linguistic research on language typology and universals, historical linguistics, language contact and areal linguistics. Himalayan Languages contains contributions on Himalayan linguistics written by some of the leading experts in the field. The volume is divided into three parts: First, a general overview is given of the linguistic study of Himalayan languages and language communities. The second part offers synchronic studies of individual languages of the region (Indo-Aryan languages Shina and Kalasha, and Tibeto-Burman languages Belhare, Magar, Kinnauri, Classical Tibetan and Thangmi). The papers in the third part of the volume address topics in historical and areal linguistics, with an emphasis on the Tibeto-Burman languages of the region, discussing grammaticalization processes (in Sunwar, Newar, Seke, Tshangla and Bantawa) and the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman.
