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Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 4: A Grammar of Kulung
Inbunden, 2006
2563 kr
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This book is the first description of Kulung, a complex-pronominalising Kiranti (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in eastern Nepal. It contains the phonology, morphology, and syntax as well as sample texts, verbal paradigms, and a Kulung-English lexicon. The data presented here were collected during …
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar
Descriptive Grammar, Paradigms, Texts and Glossary
Inbunden, 2008
2378 kr
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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 …
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 8 A Grammar of Dhimal
Av John T. King
Inbunden, 2009
4633 kr
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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 …
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 9 A Grammar of Anong
Language Death Under Intense Contact
Av Hongkai Sun, Guangkun Liu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2668 kr
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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. In the almost fifty years, Sun Hongkai has been documenting the Anong …
Grammar of Tshangla
Av Erik Andvik
Inbunden, 2010
3036 kr
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A Grammar of Tshangla is the first major linguistic description of Tshangla, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Bhutan, northeast India, and southwest China. Written from a functional-typological perspective, it contains a wealth of illustrative examples both from elicited data and from …
Himalayan Languages and Linguistics
Studies in Phonology, Semantics, Morphology and Syntax
Inbunden, 2011
2647 kr
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Himalayan Languages and Linguistics gathers together nine outstanding and original contributions on the Tibeto-Burman and Indo-Aryan languages of this important and culturally diverse mountainous area. Filling a marked gap in our understanding of the languages of this underdocumented region, the …
Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV
Av Nathan Hill
Inbunden, 2012
3680 kr
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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 …
Grammar of Prinmi
Based on the Central Dialect of Northwest Yunnan, China
Inbunden, 2014
3143 kr
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A Grammar of Prinmi represents the first in-depth description of a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Pǔmǐ Nationality and the Zàng Nationality (in Mùlǐ, Sichuan) in southwest China. Prinmi belongs to the Qiangic branch and is closely related to the extinct language of Tangut.Picus Ding examines …
Grammar of Kurtöp
Inbunden, 2017
2633 kr
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A grammar of Kurtöp is the first descriptive grammar of Kurtöp, a threatened language of Bhutan, and the only reference grammar of any East Bodish language. The East Bodish languages are a relatively unstudied branch of the larger Tibeto-Burman family, situated in Bhutan and neighbouring regions in …
Dura Language
Grammar and Phylogeny
Inbunden, 2016
2727 kr
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In The Dura Language: Grammar & Phylogeny Nicolas Schorer provides the definite descriptive account of this hitherto poorly documented language of Lamjung, Nepal. The Dura language is effectively extinct, although attempts at revival may be undertaken by well-intentioned members of Dura ethnicity. …
Tangam Language
Grammar, Lexicon and Texts
Av Mark W. Post
Inbunden, 2017
2177 kr
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Tangam is a critically endangered Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken by around 150 hilltribespeople in the far Eastern Himalaya. A member of the Tani subgroup of Trans-Himalayan, Tangam is mutually-unintelligible with other languages of this otherwise relatively homogeneous subgroup. …
Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia
New Horizons for Tibeto-Burman Studies in honor of David Bradley
Inbunden, 2017
1948 kr
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Sociohistorical Linguistics in Southeast Asia blends insights from sociolinguistics, descriptive linguistics and historical-comparative linguistics to shed new light on regional Tibeto-Burman language varieties and their relationships across spatial, temporal and cultural differences. The approach …
Grammar of Purik Tibetan
Av Marius Zemp
Inbunden, 2018
4392 kr
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In A Grammar of Purik Tibetan, Marius Zemp offers a comprehensive description of the phonologically archaic Tibetan variety spoken in Kargil, the capital of a region called Purik, situated in the state of Jammu & Kashmir, India. This book contains the most thorough and insightful description of the …
Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa)
Inbunden, 2020
3785 kr
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With Grammar of Duhumbi (Chugpa), Timotheus Adrianus (Tim) Bodt provides the first comprehensive description of any of the Western Kho-Bwa languages, a sub-group of eight linguistic varieties of the Kho-Bwa cluster (Tibeto-Burman).Duhumbi is spoken by 600 people in the Chug valley in West Kameng …
Grammar of Poumai Naga (Poula)
A Trans-Himalayan Language of North-East India
Inbunden, 2021
4338 kr
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This is the first complete description of Poumai Naga (Poula), an understudied language spoken in Manipur in northeast India. Poumai Naga belongs to the Angami-Pochuri clade of the Trans-Himalayan family. The book comprises all aspects of the language, including phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax, …
Grammar of Bjokapakha
Inbunden, 2020
3653 kr
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A Grammar of Bjokapakha by Selin Grollmann constitutes the first description of Bjokapakha, an endangered language spoken in central Bhutan belonging to the Tshangla branch of Trans-Himalayan. This grammar comprises a description of the phonology, lexicon, nominal morphology, predicate structures …
Ethnolinguistic Prehistory
The Peopling of the World from the Perspective of Language, Genes and Material Culture
Inbunden, 2021
2170 kr
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This volume provides the most up-to-date and holistic but compact account of the peopling of the world from the perspective of language, genes and material culture, presenting a view from the Himalayas. The phylogeny of language families, the chronology of branching of linguistic family trees and …
