Trans-Himalayan linguistics
Subtitle: historical and descriptive linguistics of the Himalayan area
By: edited by Thomas Owen-Smith and Nathan W. Hill
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 266; Trends in linguistics -- 266.
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9783110310740
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Tibeto-Burman languages; History; Languages; Historical linguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trans-Himalayan / George van Driem; title: Creolization in the divergence of the Tibeto-Burman languages / Scott DeLancey; title: Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages / Roger Blench and Mark W. Post; title: The Tibetic languages and their classification / Nicolas Tournadre; title: Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon / Isao Honda; title: A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish / Gwendolyn Hyslop; title: Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo-European origin / Ilija Čašule; title: Subject and object agreement in Shumcho / Christian Huber; title: The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na : a synchronic description and analysis / Alexis Michaud; title: Rengmitca : the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh / David A. Peterson; title: Initial grammatical sketch of Tilung / Jean Robert Opgenort; title: Tshangla phonology and a standard Tshangla orthography / Tim Bodt.