Trans-Himalayan Linguistics : : Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area / / ed. by Nathan Hill, Thomas Owen-Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Blench, Roger,; Bodt, Tim,; DeLancey, Scott,; Driem, George van,; Hill, Nathan W.,; Honda, Isao,; Huber, Christian,; Hyslop, Gwendolyn,; Michaud, Alexis,; Opgenort, Jean Robert,; Owen-Smith, Thomas,; Peterson, David A.,; Post, Mark W.,; Tournadre, Nicolas,; Čašule, Ilija,
• HerausgeberIn: Hill, Nathan,; Owen-Smith, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 266
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (444 p.)

The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia's heart, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. Historical developments and relationships between the region's langu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• List of contributors
• Content
• Introduction
• Trans-Himalayan
• Creolization in the Divergence of the Tibeto-Burman Languages
• Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages
• The Tibetic languages and their classification
• Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon
• A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish
• Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo- European origin
• Subject and object agreement in Shumcho
• The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na: a synchronic description and analysis
• Rengmitca: the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh
• Initial Grammatical Sketch of Tilung
• Tshangla Phonology and a Standard Tshangla Orthography
• Index