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Author : David Bradley
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UVA:X006076194
Author : Roland Bielmeier,Felix Haller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110968996
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 : George van Driem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004514928
Author : George van Driem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004514911
The survey work Languages of the Himalayas provides a bird's eye view of Himalayan languages and language communities. It also constitutes a primary source for much new, hitherto unpublished data on several languages. The demographic mosaic of the Himalayas today is viewed in a historical and comparative linguistic perspective. The reader will find an outline of the historical and prehistorical developments that have determined the modern ethnolinguistic composition of the Himalayan region, involving various independent linguistics stocks or language families. Maps illustrate the distribution of language communities and trace the routes of ancient migrations. There is an illuminating discussion of grammatical features found in Himalayan languages. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004103900).
Author : George van Driem
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Austronesian languages
ISBN : 9004120629
Author : Hongkai Sun,Guangkun Liu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047430308
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004216532
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 : Anju Saxena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110898873
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 : Umbavu Joseph
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047404699
The Rabha’s inhabit the plains on both sides of the Brahmaputra river in Assam, in the North East of India. Their language is Rabha, a member of the Tibeto-Burman language family. This is the first ever comprehensive grammar of the Róngdani dialect of Rabha, as spoken in, a.o., the Rabha heartlands. Based on extensive field work by the author, this work is yet another significant step in the meticulous task of piecing together the jigsaw of Himalayan languages as undertaken by George van Driem and his team. Given the steady decline of the Rabha language in favour of Assamese, all those interested in the language and history of the Himalayas and Northern India will welcome this volume. With a Rabha dictionary/vocabulary, and a series of key Rabha texts shedding light on its people’s customs. With financial support of the International Institute of Asian Studies.
Author : Thomas Owen-Smith,Nathan Hill
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110310832
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 : Austin Hale
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110825497
No detailed description available for "Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages".
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004233454
While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model. The volume includes six papers on Tangut, three on Tibetan and one each on the languages Mon, Burmese, Lepcha, Pyu, Nam, and Yi. Building a bridge between linguistic and literary research the range of studies treats phonology, decipherment, literature and religion.
Author : Yasuhiko Nagano,Randy J. LaPolla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bon (Tibetan religion)
ISBN : UVA:X004545634
Author : Gerard Tolsma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789047418160
This book is the first description of Kulung, a complex-pronominalising Kiranti (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in eastern Nepal. This grammar of Kulung is an exhaustive reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, and linguistic theory.
Author : Philip Denwood
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027238030
The Tibetan language comprises a wide range of spoken and written varieties whose known history dates from the 7th century AD to the present day. Its speakers inhabit a vast area in Central Asia and the Himalayas extending into seven modern nation states, while its abundant literature includes much of vital importance to the study of Buddhism. After surveying all the known varieties of Tibetan, including their geographical and historical background, this book concentrates on a phonological and grammatical description of the modern spoken Lhasa dialect, the standard spoken variety. The grammatical framework which has been specially devised to describe this variety is then applied to the written varieties of Preclassical and Classical Tibetan, demonstrating the fundamental unity of the language. The writing system is outlined, though all examples and texts are given in roman script and where appropriate, the International Phonetic Alphabet. The volume includes a comprehensive bibliography.
