Linguistics of the Himalayas and beyond [electronic resource] / edited by Roland Bielmeier, Felix Haller. - Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007. - xii, 442 p. : ill., map. - Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 196 .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Reasons for language shift : theories, myths, and counterevidence / Dörte Borchers -- Directionals in Tokpe Gola Tibetan discourse / Nancy J. Caplow -- The language history of Tibetan / Philip Denwood -- Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts / George van Driem -- Stem alternation and verbal valence in Themchen Tibetan / Felix Haller -- A comparative and historical study of demonstratives and plural markers in Tamangic languages / Isao Honda -- Grammatical peculiarities of two dialects of southern Kham Tibetan / Krisadawan Hongladarom -- The Sampang word accent : phonetic realisation and phonological function / René Huysmans -- A low glide in Marphali / Martine Mazaudon -- Pronominally marked noun determiners in Limbu / Boyd Michailovsky -- About Chaurasia / Jean Robert Opgenort -- Implications of labial place assimilation in Amdo Tibetan / Karl A. Peet -- Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives / Anju Saxena -- The status of Bunan in the Tibeto-Burman family / Suhnu Ram Sharma -- Tibetan orthography, the Balti dialect, and a contemporary phonological theory / Richard K. Sprigg -- Case-marked PRO : evidence from Rabha, Manipuri, Hindi-Urdu, and Telugu / Karumuri Venkata Subbarao, Upen Rabha Hakacham, and Thokchom Sarju Devi -- Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan / Jackson T.-S. Sun -- On the deictic patterns in Kinnauri (Pangi dialect) / Yoshiharu Takahashi -- Tibetan grammar and the active/stative case-marking type / Ralf Vollmann -- The nature of narrative text in Dzongkha : evidence from deixis, evidentiality, and mirativity / Stephen A. Watters -- Case patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi : a field report / Bettina Zeisler.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Tibeto-Burman languages--Grammar.--Himalaya Mountains Region


Electronic books.

PL3563 / .L56 2007eb

833/.914