Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 612 pages)
ISBN:
9789047429173
Series Statement:
Brill's Tibetan studies library 5
Content:
Preliminary Material /J.T. King -- Chapter One. Introduction /J.T. King -- Chapter Two. Phonology /J.T. King -- Chapter Three. Nominal Morphology /J.T. King -- Chapter Four. Verbal Morphology /J.T. King -- Chapter Five. The Sentence /J.T. King -- Text One. Courting /J.T. King -- Text Two. Catching Rats /J.T. King -- Text Three. Hunting Monitor Lizards /J.T. King -- Text Four. The Lowland Strong Man /J.T. King -- Text Five. The Tiger And The Yogi /J.T. King -- Text Six. The Splitting Of The Banana Leaf /J.T. King -- Text Seven. The Jackal And The Bear /J.T. King -- Text Eight. The Snake Husband /J.T. King -- Text Nine. The Boy And The Kings Daughter /J.T. King -- Text Ten. The Evil Stepmother /J.T. King -- Text Eleven. Where Chickens Come From /J.T. King -- Text Twelve. Shit Eater /J.T. King -- Text Thirteen. The Sick One /J.T. King -- Text Fourteen. Text Fourteen /J.T. King -- Text Fifteen. Wedding Ceremony /J.T. King -- Text Sixteen. Asare Celebration /J.T. King -- Text Seventeen. Later Clan Worship During Parba /J.T. King -- Riddles /J.T. King -- Songs /J.T. King -- Inflexional Paradigms /J.T. King -- Kinship Terms /J.T. King -- Dhimal-English Glossary /J.T. King -- Bibliography /J.T. King.
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004175730
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004175733
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe King, John T., 1960 - A grammar of Dhimal Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2009 ISBN 9789004175730
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Dhimal-Sprache
;
Grammatik
