Linguistics Of The Himalayas And Beyond

Author : Roland Bielmeier,Felix Haller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110968996

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Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond by Roland Bielmeier,Felix Haller Pdf

The approximately 250 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family are spoken by 65 million speakers in ten different countries including Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and China/Tibet. They are characterized by a fascinating linguistic, historical and cultural diversity. The languages spoken in the Himalayas, on their southern slopes and on the high Tibetan plateau in the north constitute the core of this diversity. Thus, the 21 papers mainly deal with these languages and some go even beyond to the area of the Blue Lake in northern Amdo and to southern Kham within linguistic Tibet. The ten papers dedicated to Tibetan linguistic studies offer approaches to the phonological analysis of Balti, to labial place assimilation, perfective stem renovation and stem alternation connected with verbal valence in Amdo Tibetan, to directional markers in Tokpe Gola in northeastern Nepal, to secondary verb constructions in Kham Tibetan, to narrative texts in Dzongkha, to case-marking patterns in various Tibetan dialects and to language history of Tibetan in general. Other papers deal with deictic patterns and narratives in western Himalayan Kinnauri and with the classification of neighbouring Bunan. With the Tamangic languages of northern Nepal the relationship between vowels and consonants and the development of demonstratives and plural markers are addressed. A further paper investigates the genetic relationship between Dzala and Dakpa, two East Bodish languages, and another one case-marking in Rabha and Manipuri in northeastern India. With the Kiranti languages Sampang, Limbu, Chaurasia and Sunwar in eastern Nepal, questions of accent, pronominally marked determiners, subclassification and language shift are discussed. The impressive selection of languages and linguistic topics dealt with in this book underlines the diversity of the Tibeto-Burman languages in Central and South Asia and highlights their place within present-day linguistic research. The results achieved by leading experts are remarkable in general, and the book is of interest to linguists, anthropologists and geographers.

Author : Mark Turin,Bettina Zeisler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789004194489

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Himalayan Languages and Linguistics by Mark Turin,Bettina Zeisler Pdf

Himalayan Languages and Linguistics is an edited collection of new and unpublished primary research findings, some fresh from the field and others derived from comparative textual material, on the Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan and Austroasiatic languages of this important and underdocumented mountainous region.

Author : George van Driem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004514928

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Languages of the Himalayas by George van Driem Pdf

Author : Anju Saxena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110898873

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Himalayan Languages by Anju Saxena Pdf

With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its cultural diversity, and its widespread multilingualism- both the stable and transient kind- the Himalayan region is a treasure trove of empirical data for linguistic research on language typology and universals, historical linguistics, language contact and areal linguistics. Himalayan Languages contains contributions on Himalayan linguistics written by some of the leading experts in the field. The volume is divided into three parts: First, a general overview is given of the linguistic study of Himalayan languages and language communities. The second part offers synchronic studies of individual languages of the region (Indo-Aryan languages Shina and Kalasha, and Tibeto-Burman languages Belhare, Magar, Kinnauri, Classical Tibetan and Thangmi). The papers in the third part of the volume address topics in historical and areal linguistics, with an emphasis on the Tibeto-Burman languages of the region, discussing grammaticalization processes (in Sunwar, Newar, Seke, Tshangla and Bantawa) and the subgrouping of Tibeto-Burman.

Author : Thomas Grahame Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108063777

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Languages of the Northern Himalayas by Thomas Grahame Bailey Pdf

This pioneering 1908 work on northern Himalayan dialects is a compilation of separately printed studies.

Author : Thomas Owen-Smith,Nathan Hill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110310832

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Trans-Himalayan Linguistics by Thomas Owen-Smith,Nathan Hill Pdf

The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia's heart, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. Historical developments and relationships between the region's languages also remain poorly understood. This book brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region. The volume arises from papers given and topics discussed at the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium in London in 2010. Most papers focus on Tibeto-Burman languages. These include topics relating to individual - mostly small and endangered - languages, such as Tilung, Shumcho, Rengmitca, Yongning Na and Tshangla; comparative research on the Tibetic, East Bodish and Tamangic language groups; and several papers whose scope covers the whole language family. The remaining paper deals with the origins of Burushaski, whose genetic affiliation remains uncertain. This book will be of special interest to scholars of Tibeto-Burman, and historical as well as general linguists.

Author : David Bradley
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X006076194

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Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Himalayas by David Bradley Pdf

Author : Selma K. Sonntag,Mark Turin
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783747078

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The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya by Selma K. Sonntag,Mark Turin Pdf

This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting a linguistically and historically grounded perspective, The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya offers nuanced insights into language and its relation to power in this geopolitically complex region. Edited by respected scholars in the field, the collection comprises five new research contributions by established and early-career researchers who have been significantly engaged in the Himalayan region. Grounded in a commitment to theoretically informed area studies, and covering Tibet (China), Assam (India), and Nepal, each case study is situated within contemporary debates in sociolinguistics, political science, and language policy and planning. Bridging disciplines and transcending nation-states, the volume offers a unique contribution to the study of language contact and its political implications. The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya is essential reading for researchers in the fields of language policy and planning, applied linguistics, and language and literary education. The detailed introduction and concluding commentary make the collection accessible to all social scientists concerned with questions of language, and the volume as a whole will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, sociolinguistics, political science and Asian studies.

Author : George van Driem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Austronesian languages
ISBN : 9004120629

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Handbuch Der Orientalistik by George van Driem Pdf

Author : Anju Saxena
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004513648

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The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas by Anju Saxena Pdf

This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in Kinnaur, are described both individually and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology that extends into the surrounding wider Himalayan region. The author combines traditional linguistic description and a quantitative computational procedure to disentangle genealogical and areal characteristics of the languages of Kinnaur.

Author : D. D. Sharma
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Munda languages
ISBN : 8170995159

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Studies in Tibeto-Himalayan languages by D. D. Sharma Pdf

Author : Selma K. Sonntag,Mark Turin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783747056

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The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya by Selma K. Sonntag,Mark Turin Pdf

This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting a linguistically and historically grounded perspective, The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya offers nuanced insights into language and its relation to power in this geopolitically complex region. Edited by respected scholars in the field, the collection comprises five new research contributions by established and early-career researchers who have been significantly engaged in the Himalayan region. Grounded in a commitment to theoretically informed area studies, and covering Tibet (China), Assam (India), and Nepal, each case study is situated within contemporary debates in sociolinguistics, political science, and language policy and planning. Bridging disciplines and transcending nation-states, the volume offers a unique contribution to the study of language contact and its political implications. The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya is essential reading for researchers in the fields of language policy and planning, applied linguistics, and language and literary education. The detailed introduction and concluding commentary make the collection accessible to all social scientists concerned with questions of language, and the volume as a whole will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, sociolinguistics, political science and Asian studies.

Author : Niraj Kumar,George van Driem,Phunchok Stobdan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000215496

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Himalayan Bridge by Niraj Kumar,George van Driem,Phunchok Stobdan Pdf

The centrality of the Himalayas as a connecting point or perhaps a sacred core for the Asian continent and its civilisations has captivated every explorer and scholar. The Himalaya is the meeting point of two geotectonic plates, three biogeographical realms, two ancient civilisations, two different language streams and six religions. This book is about the determinant factors which are at work in the Himalayas in the context of what it constitutes in terms of its spatiality, legends and myths, religious beliefs, rituals and traditions. The book suggests that there is no single way for understanding the Himalayas. There are layers of structures, imposition and superimposition of human history, religious traits and beliefs that continue to shape the Asian dynamics. An understanding of the ultimate union of the Himalayas, its confluences and its bridging role is essential for Asian balance. This book is a collaborative effort of an internationally acclaimed linguist, a diplomat-cum-geopolitician and a young Asianist. It provides countless themes that will be intellectually stimulating to scholars and students with varied interests. Please note: This title is co-published with KW Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Andreas Hölzl
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961101023

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A typology of questions in Northeast Asia and beyond by Andreas Hölzl Pdf

This study investigates the distribution of linguistic and specifically structural diversity in Northeast Asia (NEA), defined as the region north of the Yellow River and east of the Yenisei. In particular, it analyzes what is called the grammar of questions (GQ), i.e., those aspects of any given language that are specialized for asking questions or regularly combine with these. The bulk of the study is a bottom-up description and comparison of GQs in the languages of NEA. The addition of the phrase and beyond to the title of this study serves two purposes. First, languages such as Turkish and Chuvash are included, despite the fact that they are spoken outside of NEA, since they have ties to (or even originated in) the region. Second, despite its focus on one area, the typology is intended to be applicable to other languages as well. Therefore, it makes extensive use of data from languages outside of NEA. The restriction to one category is necessary for reasons of space and clarity, and the process of zooming in on one region allows a higher resolution and historical accuracy than is usually the case in linguistic typology. The discussion mentions over 450 languages and dialects from NEA and beyond and gives about 900 glossed examples. The aim is to achieve both a cross-linguistically plausible typology and a maximal resolution of the linguistic diversity of Northeast Asia.

Author : Hongkai Sun,Guangkun Liu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047430308

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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 9 A Grammar of Anong by Hongkai Sun,Guangkun Liu Pdf

A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu.