0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure

Buy Now

Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond (Hardcover, Reprint 2011) Loot Price: R4,150
Discovery Miles 41 500
Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Roland Bielmeier, Felix Haller

Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)

Roland Bielmeier, Felix Haller

Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R4,150 Discovery Miles 41 500 | Repayment Terms: R389 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

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.

General

Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Release date: November 2007
First published: 2007
Editors: Roland Bielmeier • Felix Haller
Dimensions: 230 x 155 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 454
Edition: Reprint 2011
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-019828-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
Promotions
LSN: 3-11-019828-2
Barcode: 9783110198287

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Become A Better Writer - How To Write…
Donald Powers, Greg Rosenberg Paperback R245 R226 Discovery Miles 2 260
Syntax: A Generative Introduction 4e and…
A Carnie Paperback R2,154 Discovery Miles 21 540
A Unified Theory of Polarity Sensitivity…
Ahmad Alqassas Hardcover R3,247 Discovery Miles 32 470
Anti-contiguity - A Theory of Wh…
Jason Kandybowicz Hardcover R2,580 Discovery Miles 25 800
The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics
Yan Huang Hardcover R4,819 Discovery Miles 48 190
The Morphosyntax of Portuguese and…
Mary A. Kato, Francisco Ordonez Hardcover R4,001 Discovery Miles 40 010
The Oxford Handbook of Information…
Caroline Fery, Shinichiro Ishihara Hardcover R4,855 Discovery Miles 48 550
Women, Language and Grammar in Italy…
Helena Sanson Hardcover R3,626 Discovery Miles 36 260
Aspects of Split Ergativity
Jessica Coon Hardcover R4,083 Discovery Miles 40 830
Beyond Functional Sequence - The…
Ur Shlonsky Hardcover R3,806 Discovery Miles 38 060
How Words Mean - Lexical Concepts…
Vyvyan Evans Hardcover R4,682 Discovery Miles 46 820
Multiple Exponence
Alice C. Harris Hardcover R3,791 Discovery Miles 37 910

See more

Partners