Himalayan Languages : : Past and Present / / ed. by Anju Saxena.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Andvik, Erik,; Bickel, Balthasar,; Bielmeier, Roland,; Grunow-Hårsta, Karen,; Gvozdanović, Jadranka,; Hargreaves, David,; Heegård, Jan,; Honda, Isao,; Matisoff, James A.,; Mørch, Ida Elisabeth,; Oetke, Claus,; Saxena, Anju,; Schmidt, Ruth Laila,; Turin, Mark,; Winter, Werner,; van Driem, George,
• HerausgeberIn: Saxena, Anju,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 149
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (434 p.)
• Other title: I-VIII --; Introduction --; Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world - The study of Himalayan languages --; Descriptive linguistics --; A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects --; Retroflex vowels and other peculiarities in the Kalasha sound system --; Direction and differential dative case marking in Magar --; Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective --; Hidden syntax in Belhare --; On the notion of sentence in Classical Tibetan --; On discourse functions of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives --; Language change --; Preverbal modifiers in Sunwar --; Directional prefixes in Kathmandu Newar --; Grammaticalization of deictic motion verbs in Seke --; “Do” as subordinator in Tshangla --; Morphosyntactic transparency in Bantawa --; Areal semantics - Is there such a thing? --; Shafer’s proto-West Bodish hypothesis and the formation of the Tibetan verb paradigms --; Newaric and Mahakiranti --; Subject index --; Language index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110898873; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110898873
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Anju Saxena.

With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its great cultural diversity, and its widespread multilingualism - both the stable and transient kind - the Himalayan region is a treasure trove of empirical data for research on language typology and universals, historical linguistics, language contact and areal linguistics. Himalayan Languages contains an overview of Himalayan linguistics, synchronic studies of individual languages, and papers on the historical and areal linguistics of language families and languages in the region, contributed by some of the leading experts in the field.