Linguistics of the Himalayas and beyond
By: edited by Roland Bielmeier, Felix Haller.
Contributors: Bielmeier, Roland.; Haller, Felix.
Series: Trends in linguistics -- 196
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9783110198287
Subjects: Tibeto-Burman languages -- Himalaya Mountains Region -- Grammar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reasons for language shift : theories, myths, and counterevidence / Dörte Borchers; title: Directionals in Tokpe Gola Tibetan discourse / Nancy J. Caplow; title: The language history of Tibetan / Philip Denwood; title: Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts / George van Driem; title: Stem alternation and verbal valence in Themchen Tibetan / Felix Haller; title: A comparative and historical study of demonstratives and plural markers in Tamangic languages / Isao Honda; title: Grammatical peculiarities of two dialects of southern Kham Tibetan / Krisadawan Hongladarom; title: The Sampang word accent : phonetic realisation and phonological function / René Huysmans; title: A low glide in Marphali / Martine Mazaudon; title: Pronominally marked noun determiners in Limbu / Boyd Michailovsky; title: About Chaurasia / Jean Robert Opgenort; title: Implications of labial place assimilation in Amdo Tibetan / Karl A. Peet; title: Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives / Anju Saxena; title: The status of Bunan in the Tibeto-Burman family / Suhnu Ram Sharma; title: Tibetan orthography, the Balti dialect, and a contemporary phonological theory / Richard K. Sprigg; title: Case-marked PRO : evidence from Rabha, Manipuri, Hindi-Urdu, and Telugu / Karumuri Venkata Subbarao, Upen Rabha Hakacham, and Thokchom Sarju Devi; title: Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan / Jackson T.-S. Sun; title: On the deictic patterns in Kinnauri (Pangi dialect) / Yoshiharu Takahashi; title: Tibetan grammar and the active/stative case-marking type / Ralf Vollmann; title: The nature of narrative text in Dzongkha : evidence from deixis, evidentiality, and mirativity / Stephen A. Watters; title: Case patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi : a field report / Bettina Zeisler.