Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas

Anju Saxena, Ph.D. (1992), University of Oregon, is Professor of Linguistics at Uppsala University. She has long experience with researching and conducting fieldwork on South Asian languages. Her publications include Himalayan Languages (De Gruyter Mouton, 2004) and the co-edited volume Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences (De Gruyter Mouton, 2013). She has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton) and as Series Editor of Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages (Brill).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotation, Terminology and Abbreviations1 Introduction—Kinnaur: Geography, Demography and Languages1 Introduction2 The Geography of Kinnaur3 Administrative Units in Kinnaur4 Demography of Kinnaur5 Number of KST Speakers6 Some Questions to Be Addressed in This Work2 A Linguistic Sketch of Kinnauri1 Introduction2 Phonology3 Noun Phrase4 The Verb Complex5 Clauses and SentencesAppendix 2A: Kinnauri Basic Vocabulary (by Anju Saxena and Santosh Negi)3 A Linguistic Sketch of Navakat1 Introduction2 Phonology3 Noun Phrase4 The Verb Complex5 Clauses and SentencesAppendix 3A: Classical Tibetan Verb Stems and Their Correspondences in NavakatAppendix 3B: Navakat Basic Vocabulary (by Anju Saxena and Padam Sagar)4 A Linguistic Sketch of Kinnauri Pahari1 Introduction2 Phonology3 Noun Phrase4 The Verb Complex5 Clauses and SentencesAppendix 4A: Some Comparisons between Kinnauri Pahari and Other Pahari LanguagesAppendix 4B: Kinnauri Pahari Basic Vocabulary (by Anju Saxena and Vikram Negi)5 Linguistic Relationships in Kinnaur I: Sino-Tibetan1 Introduction2 Data Collection3 Methodology4 Towards Linguistically Informed Computational Lexicostatistics5 Results: Vocabulary6 Results: Grammatical Features7 KST Varieties and Their ClassificationAppendix 5A: Questionnaire Items and Vocabulary Comparison Tables6 Linguistic Relationships in Kinnaur II: Language Contact between Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan1 Introduction2 Language Contact in Kinnaur3 Kinnauri and Kinnauri Pahari: Shared Linguistic Features4 Summary7 The Many-Faceted Linguistic Landscape of KinnaurReferencesIndex