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.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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