Himalayan languages and linguistics: studies in phonology, semantics, morphology and syntax / edited by Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011Description: viii, 322 p. ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: 9789004194489 Subject(s): Tibeto-Burman languages | Himalaya Mountains Region -- LanguagesDDC classification: 495.4
Contents:
PART ONE: The Himalayas in history Lost in the sands of time somewhere north of the Bay of Bengal George van Driem PART TWO: Phonology and script A key to four transcription systems of Lepcha Heleen Plaisier Dialectal particularities of Sogpho Tibetan - an introduction to the "Twenty-four villages' patois" Hiroyuki Suzuki PART THREE: Semantics (words and word classes) On the Old Tibetan Term Khrin in the legal and ritual lexicons Brandon Dotson A functional analysis of adjectives in Newar Kazuyuki Kiryu PART FOUR: Morphology and syntax The role of animacy in the verbal morphology of Dongwang Tibetan Ellen Bartee The Sampang verbal agreement system Rene Huysmans Ergativity in Kundal Shahi, Kashmiri and Hindko. Khawaja A. Rehman Kenhat, the dialects of Upper Ladakh and Zanskar.. Bettina Zeisler
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE: The Himalayas in history
Lost in the sands of time somewhere north of the Bay of Bengal
George van Driem
PART TWO: Phonology and script
A key to four transcription systems of Lepcha
Heleen Plaisier
Dialectal particularities of Sogpho Tibetan - an introduction to
the "Twenty-four villages' patois"
Hiroyuki Suzuki
PART THREE: Semantics (words and word classes)
On the Old Tibetan Term Khrin in the legal and ritual lexicons
Brandon Dotson
A functional analysis of adjectives in Newar
Kazuyuki Kiryu
PART FOUR: Morphology and syntax
The role of animacy in the verbal morphology of Dongwang
Tibetan
Ellen Bartee
The Sampang verbal agreement system
Rene Huysmans
Ergativity in Kundal Shahi, Kashmiri and Hindko.
Khawaja A. Rehman
Kenhat, the dialects of Upper Ladakh and Zanskar..
Bettina Zeisler

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