OLAC Record oai:gial.edu:21466 |
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Title: | Himalayan languages : past and present | |
Contributor: | Saxena, Anju, 1959- | |
Date (W3CDTF): | 2004 | |
Description: | "The Himalayan Languages Symposium brings together scholars working on the languages and language communities of the greater Himalayan region: north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan Plateau, northern Burma and Sichuan, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski-speaking area in the west." -- preface | |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes | ||
Extent: | viii, 434 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm | |
Identifier: | ISBN: 3110178419 (cloth : alk. paper) | |
Is Part Of: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 149 | |
Language: | English | |
Multiple languages | ||
Language (ISO639): | eng | |
mul | ||
Publisher: | Berlin New York : Mouton de Gruyter | |
Spatial Coverage: | Himalaya Mountains Region | |
Nepal | ||
Subject: | PL3781.H575 2004 | |
495/.4 | ||
Subject (LCSH): | Tibeto-Burman languages--Congresses | |
Himalaya Mountains Region--Languages--Congresses | ||
Nepal--Congresses--Languages | ||
Table Of Contents: | Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world - The study of Himalayan languages / Anju Saxena -- A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects / Ruth Laila Schmidt -- Retroflex vowels and other peculiarities in the Kalasha sound system / Jan Heegård and Ida Elisabeth Mørch -- Direction and differential dative case marking in Magar / Karen Grunow-Hårsta -- Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective / Mark Turin -- Hidden syntax in Belhare / Balthasar Bickel -- On the notion of sentence in Classical Tibetan / Claus Oetke -- On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives / Anju Saxena -- Preverbal modifiers in Sunwar / Werner Winter - Directional prefixes in Kathmandu Newar / David Hargreaves -- Grammaticalization of deictic motion verbs in Seke / Isao Honda -- "Do" as subordinator in Tshangla / Erik Andvik -- Morphosyntactic transparency in Bantawa / Jadranka Gvozdanović -- Areal semantics - Is there such a thing? / James A. Matisoff -- Shafer's proto-West Bodish hypothesis and the formation of the Tibetan verb paradigms / Roland Bielmeier -- Newaric and Mahakiranti / George van Driem | |
Type (DCMI): | Text | |
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DateStamp: | 2009-05-27 | |
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Citation: | Saxena, Anju, 1959-. 2004. Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 149. | |
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