Trans-Himalayan Linguistics: Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2014

Trans-Himalayan Linguistics

Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area

Edited by: Thomas Owen-Smith and Nathan W. Hill

Volume 266 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110310832

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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.

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Nathan W. Hill and Thomas Owen-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Thomas Owen-Smith and Nathan W. Hill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Trans-Himalayan George van Driem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Creolization in the Divergence of the Tibeto-Burman Languages Scott DeLancey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages Roger Blench and Mark W. Post Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
The Tibetic languages and their classification Nicolas Tournadre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon Isao Honda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish Gwendolyn Hyslop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo- European origin Ilija Čašule Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Subject and object agreement in Shumcho Christian Huber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na: a synchronic description and analysis Alexis Michaud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Rengmitca: the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh David A. Peterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Initial Grammatical Sketch of Tilung Jean Robert Opgenort Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
Tshangla Phonology and a Standard Tshangla Orthography Tim Bodt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars of Tibeto-Burman, Historical as well as General Linguists
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 444
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 9
- Tables: 85

eBook

Published: December 12, 2013
ISBN: 9783110310832

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Published: December 13, 2013
ISBN: 9783110310740