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Author : Mark Turin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : 9004223754
Author : Mark Turin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004223769
This monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalcok in central-eastern Nepal. The language is spoken by upwards of 30,000 people belonging to an ethnic group of the same name. The Thangmi are one of Nepal’s least documented communities. These two volumes include a grammatical description of the Dolakha dialect of Thangmi, a collection of glossed oral texts and a comprehensive lexicon with relevant examples. In addition, the reader will find an extensive ethnolinguistic introduction to the speakers and their culture. For students and scholars of anthropology and linguistics, this study is a compelling illustration of the interweaving of these disciplines in the context of Himalayan studies. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).
Author : Mark Turin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1003 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789004155268
This monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the districts of Dolakha and Sindhupalcok in central-eastern Nepal. The language is spoken by upwards of 30,000 people belonging to an ethnic group of the same name. The Thangmi are one of Nepal s least documented communities.These two volumes include a grammatical description of the Dolakha dialect of Thangmi, a collection of glossed oral texts and a comprehensive lexicon with relevant examples. In addition, the reader will find an extensive ethnolinguistic introduction to the speakers and their culture.For students and scholars of anthropology and linguistics, this study is a compelling illustration of the interweaving of these disciplines in the context of Himalayan studies.With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).
Author : Jean Robert Opgenort
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 948 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004138315
An exhaustive reference work for Wambule/Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, linguistic theory "and" Wambule society and culture, and as such indispensable for any linguistic and anthropological library.
Author : Mark W. Post
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004344884
Tangam is a critically endangered Trans-Himalayan language spoken by 150 hilltribespeople in the Far Eastern Himalaya. This work presents a cultural, historical and grammatical introduction to the Tangam language, a trilingual lexicon in Tangam, English and Minyong, and analysed texts.
Author : Masato Kobayashi,Bablu Tirkey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004347663
Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey’s The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon offers a comprehensive grammar, transcribed and glossed texts, and a dictionary of Kurux, an isolated Dravidian tribal language in Eastern India.
Author : Jean Robert Opgenort
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Rai (Nepalese people)
ISBN : 9080715816
Author : Dörte Borchers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004167094
This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. Verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references are also presented. Contact between the Sunwar and Nepali languages resulted in language change, most visible in the verbal system, where the older biactantial agreement system typical for Kiranti languages disappeared and suffix conjugations emerged. This book will interest those interested in descriptive linguistics, language change and languages of South Asia.
Author : King John T.,John Timothy King
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004175730
The present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little known and endangered tongue spoken in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal by about 20,000 individuals, is detailed in this work. With data gathered in the village of hiy b r , the author crafts a readable description of the western dialect, using over 1000 examples to illustrate usage. Included in this reference work are seventeen texts, riddles, songs and a Dhimal-English glossary. Joining other recent ground-breaking linguistic descriptions by researchers from the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University, this grammar of Dhimal will have lasting scientific value and aid the Dhimal community in preserving their language.
Author : Christopher Moseley
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789231040962
Languages are not only tools of communication, they also reflect a view of the world. Languages are vehicles of value systems and cultural expressions and are an essential component of the living heritage of humanity. Yet, many of them are in danger of disappearing. UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger tries to raise awareness on language endangerment. This third edition has been completely revised and expanded to include new series of maps and new points of view.
Author : Jean-Luc Achard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004168237
Within the tradition of the "Great Perfection," the Works of Shardza Tashi Gyeltsen stand as textual references of an exceptional erudition. As a sign of realization, the author manifested the Rainbow Body, the ultimate fruit of Dzogchen, in 1934.
Author : Anna Balikci
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004167063
This careful study of the co-existence over time of Buddhism and shamanism among the Lhopo (Bhutia) people of Sikkim sheds new light on their supposedly hostile relationship. It examines the working relationships between Buddhist lamas and practitioners of "bon," taking into consideration the sacred history of the land as well as its more recent political and economic transformation. Their interactions are presented in terms of the contexts in which lamas and shamans meet, these being rituals of the sacred land, of the individual and household, and of village and state. Village lamas and shamans are shown to share a conceptual view of reality which is at the base of their amiable coexistence. In contrast to the hostility which, the recent literature suggests, characterizes the lama-shaman relationship, their association reveals that the real confrontation occurs when village Buddhism is challenged by its conventional counterpart.
Author : Li Jiang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004293045
In A Grammar of Guìqióng, Jiāng Lì describes the grammar of Guìqióng, a hitherto undocumented language spoken by alpine people in Kāngdìng county, China. Guìqióng has a lot to offer in its phonology, verbal and nominal morphology, syntax and glossary, distinguishing itself from the neighbouring Tibetan, Chinese, Qiangic and Loloish languages. The newly discovered features of Guìqióng include breathy vs. modal voice, indefinite number, ablative, ergative, instrumental, dative and genitive case markers, topic and emphatic markers, the diminutive suffixes, the pronominal and deictic systems, demonstratives and numerals, a rich store of differentiated copular verbs expressing equationality, inchoative, animacy vs. inanimacy, dependent existence and negation, verbal affixes indicating directions, present tense of experienced perceptions, gnomic tense, perfective vs. imperfective aspect, modality and evidentiality.
Author : Thomas Stolz,Nataliya Levkovych,Aina Urdze,Julia Nintemann,Maja Robbers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110539516
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 : Hendrik Karel Jan Cowan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789401765886