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Grammar of Kharia
A South Munda Language
Inbunden, 2010
3667 kr
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Kharia, spoken in central-eastern India, is a member of the southern branch of the Munda family, which forms the western branch of the Austro-Asiatic phylum, stretching from central India to Vietnam. The present study provides the most extensive description of Kharia to date and covers all major …
Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors
The Changing Politics of Language Choice
Inbunden, 2011
2944 kr
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The book was co-edited by Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.Language policy in Central Asia, Afghanistan and the immediately surrounding neighboring countries has a long and varied history. The Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the Soviet Union in …
Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay
A Case of Extreme Language Contact
Inbunden, 2012
2550 kr
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In The Genesis of Sri Lanka Malay: A Case of Extreme Language Contact, the synchrony and diachrony of Sri Lanka Malay are investigated from a variety of angles: Experts on South Asia, South East Asia, Creole Studies, Areal Linguistics, Typology, and Sociolinguistics all contribute their share to a …
Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language
An Ethnolinguistic Study
Av Anvita Abbi
Inbunden, 2013
2593 kr
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Winner of the 2015 Kenneth L. Hale Award! A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is the first-ever detailed and exhaustive account of Great Andamanese, a moribund language spoken on the Andamanese Islands belonging to India in the Bay of Bengal. This important documentation covers all major …
Semantic Spaces of Persian Light Verbs
A Constructionist Account
Inbunden, 2014
2419 kr
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In Semantic Spaces of Persian Light Verbs, Neiloufar Family exposes the semantic organization of light verb constructions in Persian. By clustering constructions based on semantic properties, she provides an insightful and more global view of a system that has been notoriously difficult to …
Grammar of Atong
Inbunden, 2014
5197 kr
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Atong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India and Bangladesh. Seino van Breugel provides a deep and thorough coverage and analysis of all major areas of the grammar, which makes this book of great interest and value to general linguists and typologists as well as area specialists. …
Kurux Language
Grammar, Texts and Lexicon
Av Masato Kobayashi, Bablu Tirkey
Inbunden, 2017
3233 kr
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The Kurux Language: Grammar, Texts and Lexicon by Masato Kobayashi and Bablu Tirkey is a comprehensive description of Kurux, a northern Dravidian tribal language with two million speakers. Isolated in the Chota Nagpur Plateau of Eastern India, Kurux shows a unique mixture of archaic Dravidian …
Atong Texts
Glossed, Translated and Annotated Narratives in a Tibeto-Burman Language of Meghalaya, Northeast India
Inbunden, 2019
4179 kr
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Atong Texts by Seino van Breugel consists of a collection of 37 glossed, annotated and translated narratives in the Atong language (Tibeto-Burman) of Meghalaya, India, presented in phonemic standard orthography. This testimony of cultural and linguistic heritage of the Atongs, who are members of …
Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba
Av Gail Coelho
Inbunden, 2018
3210 kr
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Beṭṭa Kurumba is a Dravidian language spoken in the Nilgiri and Waynad Hills of India. Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba presents folktales and dialogues in this language, together with a grammatical sketch and a glossary. These interlinearised texts provide rich data for linguistic analysis, as …
Srinagar Burushaski
A Descriptive and Comparative Account with Analyzed Texts
Av Sadaf Munshi
Inbunden, 2018
2284 kr
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In Srinagar Burushaski: A Descriptive and Comparative Account with Analyzed Texts Sadaf Munshi offers the structural description of a lesser-known regional variety of Burushaski spoken in Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian-administered state of Jammu & Kashmir. The description includes a …
Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area
Inbunden, 2020
3010 kr
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Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area offers the first comprehensive account of this important understudied word class from synchronic, diachronic, literary, and descriptive perspectives. The work contains studies from the four major language families of South Asia (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, …
Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas
Languages in Kinnaur
Av Anju Saxena
Inbunden, 2022
2695 kr
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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 …
Grammar of Khortha
Inbunden, 2025
2198 kr
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Khortha is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in Jharkhand, India. Netra P. Paudyal provides an in-depth analysis of Khortha grammar based on the data recorded during his field trips, elicited data, and sentences culled from printed literature. Alongside, it includes a fully glossed text, a …
Functional Account of Marathi's Voice Phenomena
Passives and Causatives in Marathi
Inbunden, 2016
2177 kr
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A Functional Account of Marathi's Voice Phenomena offers a comprehensive account of the formal and semantic aspects of the two most prominent voice phenomena in Marathi: the passive and the causative. Previous studies offer many partial insights into various aspects of Marathi’s passives and …
