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Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
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Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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The approximately 250 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family are
spoken by 65 million speakers in ten different countries including
Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and China/Tibet. They are
characterized by a fascinating linguistic, historical and cultural
diversity. The languages spoken in the Himalayas, on their southern
slopes and on the high Tibetan plateau in the north constitute the
core of this diversity. Thus, the 21 papers mainly deal with these
languages and some go even beyond to the area of the Blue Lake in
northern Amdo and to southern Kham within linguistic Tibet. The ten
papers dedicated to Tibetan linguistic studies offer approaches to
the phonological analysis of Balti, to labial place assimilation,
perfective stem renovation and stem alternation connected with
verbal valence in Amdo Tibetan, to directional markers in Tokpe
Gola in northeastern Nepal, to secondary verb constructions in Kham
Tibetan, to narrative texts in Dzongkha, to case-marking patterns
in various Tibetan dialects and to language history of Tibetan in
general. Other papers deal with deictic patterns and narratives in
western Himalayan Kinnauri and with the classification of
neighbouring Bunan. With the Tamangic languages of northern Nepal
the relationship between vowels and consonants and the development
of demonstratives and plural markers are addressed. A further paper
investigates the genetic relationship between Dzala and Dakpa, two
East Bodish languages, and another one case-marking in Rabha and
Manipuri in northeastern India. With the Kiranti languages Sampang,
Limbu, Chaurasia and Sunwar in eastern Nepal, questions of accent,
pronominally marked determiners, subclassification and language
shift are discussed. The impressive selection of languages and
linguistic topics dealt with in this book underlines the diversity
of the Tibeto-Burman languages in Central and South Asia and
highlights their place within present-day linguistic research. The
results achieved by leading experts are remarkable in general, and
the book is of interest to linguists, anthropologists and
geographers.
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