Himalayan Languages and Linguistics Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology and Syntax

✍ Scribed by Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Himalayan Languages and Linguistics gathers together nine outstanding and original contributions on the Tibeto-Burman and Indo-Aryan languages of this important and culturally diverse mountainous area. Filling a marked gap in our understanding of the languages of this underdocumented region, the collection offers a snapshot of the state of the field of Himalayan language research and linguistic comparison. Drawing on primary fieldwork in China, India, Nepal and Pakistan, as well as on comparative sources, the new analyses outlined in these contributions will interest a readership of linguists, philologists, anthropologists, historians, lexicographers and specialists in the languages and cultures of Inner and South Asia. Contributions cover topics as diverse as linguistic palaeontology, orthographical standardisation, dialectology, phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
PART ONE: The Himalayas in history......Page 19
Lost in the sands of time somewhere north of the Bay of Bengal......Page 21
PART TWO: Phonology and script......Page 47
A key to four transcription systems of Lepcha......Page 49
Dialectal particularities of Sogpho Tibetan – an introduction to the “Twenty-four villages’ patois”......Page 63
PART THREE: Semantics (words and word classes)......Page 83
On the Old Tibetan Term Khrin in the legal and ritual lexicons......Page 85
A functional analysis of adjectives in Newar......Page 107
PART FOUR: Morphology and syntax......Page 139
The role of animacy in the verbal morphology of Dongwang Tibetan......Page 141
The Sampang verbal agreement system......Page 191
Ergativity in Kundal Shahi, Kashmiri and Hindko......Page 227
Kenhat, the dialects of Upper Ladakh and Zanskar......Page 243
Index......Page 311

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Типология и сопоставительное языкознание;