A Grammar And Dictionary Of Indus Kohistani Dictionary

Author : Claus Peter Zoller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110179477

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A Grammar and Dictionary of Indus Kohistani: Dictionary by Claus Peter Zoller Pdf

Indus Kohistani is a major language of the Dardic group of Indo-Aryan languages. It is spoken in North Pakistan along the west bank of the Indus. The Dardic languages are - in the words of the eminent linguist R.L. Turner - linguistically of great interest. They are of crucial importance for our understanding of the early stages of Indo-Aryan (Sanskrit) and of its prehistory. The dictionary contains around 8.000 entries, many of which are supplemented with parallels from other languages (Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Dravidian, etc.), and with information about their origin. The book is presently the most comprehensive dictionary of a Dardic language and a rich source for linguists and South Asian philologists.

Author : Claus Peter Zoller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English language
ISBN : LCCN:2005012901

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A Grammar and Dictionary of Indus Kohistani by Claus Peter Zoller Pdf

Author : Claus Peter Zoller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197303

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Dictionary by Claus Peter Zoller Pdf

Volume 1 of A Grammar and Dictionary of Indus Kohistani contains around 8.000 lemmata, many of which are supplemented with parallels from adjacent dialects, from other Dardic, from Nuristani, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Dravidian and Munda languages, and from Burushaski. The lemmata have been, wherever possible, provided with information about their origin, and they are connected by numerous cross-references. Since Indus Kohistani is a pitch accent language with complicated rules governing the behaviour of the two pitch accents in compounding, derivation, and inflexion, the lemmata are not only marked with their appropriate pitch accents, but the behaviour of the accents (change of value, shift) is illustrated with a large number of inflected forms and cross-references. And since Indus Kohistani has a rich (and frequently irregular) inner and outer conjugation, most verbs are provided with many finite and participle forms. In addition, the dictionary contains two indexes (English - Indus Kohistani and Old Indo-Aryan - Indus Kohistani), and lists with place and clan names, names of the months, etc.

Author : Ruth Laila Schmidt,Razval Kohistānī
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Indo-Iranian languages
ISBN : 3447056762

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A Grammar of the Shina Language of Indus Kohistan by Ruth Laila Schmidt,Razval Kohistānī Pdf

The Shina language is a Dardic speech spoken in the mountainousregions of the upper Indus River and its tributaries in Pakistan and India, an area which extends more than eight hundred kilometers from east to west and three hundred kilometers from north to south - an area larger than Norway. It is divided into three major dialects: the Gilgiti, Kohistani and Astori. Until now, only the Gilgiti dialect has received the attention of scholars; this work is the only grammar of the Kohistani dialect, as well as the ? rst modern grammar of any Shina dialect.Table of contents: PrefaceMapList of Abbreviations1. The Geographic and Historical Setting2. The Sound System3. Nouns and Postpositions4. Pronouns and Deixis5. Adjectives6. Verbs7. Adverbs, Participles and Verbal Nouns8. Compound Verbs9. ConjunctionsBibliographyInde

Author : Danesh Jain,George Cardona
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135797119

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The Indo-Aryan Languages by Danesh Jain,George Cardona Pdf

The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.

Author : Hans Henrich Hock,Elena Bashir
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 927 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110423303

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The Languages and Linguistics of South Asia by Hans Henrich Hock,Elena Bashir Pdf

With nearly a quarter of the world’s population, members of at least five major language families plus several putative language isolates, South Asia is a fascinating arena for linguistic investigations, whether comparative-historical linguistics, studies of language contact and multilingualism, or general linguistic theory. This volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of linguistic research on the languages of South Asia, with contributions by well-known experts. Focus is both on what has been accomplished so far and on what remains unresolved or controversial and hence offers challenges for future research. In addition to covering the languages, their histories, and their genetic classification, as well as phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics, the volume provides special coverage of contact and convergence, indigenous South Asian grammatical traditions, applications of modern technology to South Asian languages, and South Asian writing systems. An appendix offers a classified listing of major sources and resources, both digital/online and printed.

Author : Henrik Liljegren
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234319

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A grammar of Palula by Henrik Liljegren Pdf

This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula, an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10,000 people in the Chitral district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This is the first extensive description of the formerly little-documented Palula language, and is one of only a few in-depth studies available for languages in the extremely multilingual Hindukush-Karakoram region. The grammar is based on original fieldwork data, collected over the course of about ten years, commencing in 1998. It is primarily in the form of recorded, mainly narrative, texts, but supplemented by targeted elicitation as well as notes of observed language use. All fieldwork was conducted in close collaboration with the Palula-speaking community, and a number of native speakers took active part in the process of data gathering, annotation and data management. The main areas covered are phonology, morphology and syntax, illustrated with a large number of example items and utterances, but also a few selected lexical topics of some prominence have received a more detailed treatment as part of the morphosyntactic structure. Suggestions for further research that should be undertaken are given throughout the grammar. The approach is theory-informed rather than theory-driven, but an underlying functional-typological framework is assumed. Diachronic development is taken into account, particularly in the area of morphology, and comparisons with other languages and references to areal phenomena are included insofar as they are motivated and available. The description also provides a brief introduction to the speaker community and their immediate environment.

Author : Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269171

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The Linguistics of Temperature by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Pdf

The volume is the first comprehensive typological study of the conceptualisation of temperature in languages as reflected in their systems of central temperature terms (hot, cold, to freeze, etc.). The key issues addressed here include questions such as how languages categorize the temperature domain and what other uses the temperature expressions may have, e.g., when metaphorically referring to emotions (‘warm words’). The volume contains studies of more than 50 genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages and is unique in considering cross-linguistic patterns defined both by lexical and grammatical information. The detailed descriptions of the linguistic and extra-linguistic facts will serve as an important step in teasing apart the role of the different factors in how we speak about temperature – neurophysiology, cognition, environment, social-cultural practices, genetic relations among languages, and linguistic contact. The book is a significant contribution to semantic typology, and will be of interest for linguists, psychologists, anthropologists and philosophers.

Author : Johanneke Caspers,Yiya Chen,Willemijn Heeren,Jos Pacilly,Niels O. Schiller,Ellen van Zanten
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269065

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Above and Beyond the Segments by Johanneke Caspers,Yiya Chen,Willemijn Heeren,Jos Pacilly,Niels O. Schiller,Ellen van Zanten Pdf

Above and Beyond the Segments presents a unique collection of experimental linguistic and phonetic research. Mainly, it deals with the experimental approach to prosodic, and more specifically melodic, aspects of speech. But it also treats segmental phonetics and phonology, second language learning, semantics and related topics. Apart from European languages and dialects (including Dutch, English, Greek, Danish, and dialects from Italy and The Netherlands) there also are chapters on regions as widespread as China, Russia, South Africa, South Sudan, and Surinam. These all testify the enormous diversity of language and speech in the world. This book is of special interest to linguists working on prosodic aspects of speech in general and to those studying non-Western languages in particular.

Author : Jacqueline H. Fewkes,Megan Adamson Sijapati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429560064

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Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas by Jacqueline H. Fewkes,Megan Adamson Sijapati Pdf

This book chronicles individual perspectives and specific iterations of Muslim community, practice, and experience in the Himalayan region to bring into scholarly conversation the presence of varying Muslim cultures in the Himalaya. The Himalaya provide a site of both geographic and cultural crossroads, where Muslim community is simultaneously constituted at multiple social levels, and to that end the essays in this book document a wide range of local, national, and global interests while maintaining a focus on individual perspectives, moments in time, and localized experiences. It presents research that contributes to a broadly conceived notion of the Himalaya that enriches readers’ understandings of both the region and concepts of Muslim community and highlights the interconnections between multiple experiences of Muslim community at local levels. Drawing attention to the cultural, social, artistic, and political diversity of the Himalaya beyond the better understood and frequently documented religio-cultural expressions of the region, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Anthropology, Geography, History, Religious Atudies, Asian Studies, and Islamic Studies.

Author : Rajendra Singh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110198638

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Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics by Rajendra Singh Pdf

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability. Each volume will have four major sections: I. Invited contributions consisting of state-of-the-art essays on research in South Asian languages. II. Refereed open submissions focusing on relevant issues and providing various viewpoints. III. Reports from around the world, book reviews and abstracts of doctoral theses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : UCSC:32106015842278

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Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pirkko Suihkonen,Lindsay J. Whaley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269362

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On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia by Pirkko Suihkonen,Lindsay J. Whaley Pdf

The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects, and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However, it is common to all the articles that they investigate phenomena that have not been examined previously, or they apply a new framework to a topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars with a focus on this broad geographic region, typologists, historical linguists and discourse analysts. The uniqueness of this volume is that it brings together work on a genetically diverse set of languages that have some shared areal traits.

Author : Thomas Stolz,Nataliya Levkovych,Aina Urdze,Julia Nintemann,Maja Robbers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110539516

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Spatial Interrogatives in Europe and Beyond by Thomas Stolz,Nataliya Levkovych,Aina Urdze,Julia Nintemann,Maja Robbers Pdf

The extant generalizations about the grammar of space rely heavily on the analyses of declarative sentences. There is a need to check whether these generalizations also hold in the domain of interrogation. To this end this book analyzes data from some 450 languages (including non-standard varieties). The focus is on paradigms of spatial interrogatives such as English where, whither and whence and their internal organization. These paradigms are checked for recurrent patterns of morphological mismatches (such as syncretism) and different degrees of complexity (e.g. the number of segments). The data-base consists of a large parallel literary corpus (Le petit prince and translations thereof) which is complemented by further sources of information such as descriptive grammars. The data are analyzed from a synchronic perspective. However, diachronic issues are addressed unsystematically, too. It is shown that the distribution of phenomena which characterize paradigms of spatial interrogatives are subject to areal-linguistic factors. This is the first typological study of spatial interrogatives. It provides new insights for students of the grammar of space, morphological paradigms, and language typology.

Author : Rajendra Singh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-24
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 311017989X

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The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2004 by Rajendra Singh Pdf

South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. The considerable body of linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale. Despite this, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst South Asian linguists. The YEARBOOK OF SOUTH ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability. Each volume of this annual series will have four major sections: I. Invited contributions consisting of state-of-the-art essays on research in South Asian languages. II. Refereed open submissions focusing on relevant issues and providing various viewpoints. III. Reports from around the world book reviews and abstracts of doctoral theses. IV. A forum for dialogue; critiques; comments and discussions; reports on research activities; and conference announcements. In the words of the Editor-in-Chief, 'other than excellence and non-isolationism, we have no agenda and no thematic priorities'. This pioneering series will interest all those in the fields of sociolinguistics, language studies, grammar, literature and sociology.