Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond / / ed. by Roland Bielmeier, Felix Haller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• HerausgeberIn: Bielmeier, Roland,; Haller, Felix,
• MitwirkendeR: Borchers, Dörte,; Caplow, Nancy J.,; Denwood, Philip,; Devi, Thokchom Sarju,; Hakacham, Upen Rabha,; Haller, Felix,; Honda, Isao,; Hongladarom, Krisadawan,; Huysmans, René,; Mazaudon, Martine,; Michailovsky, Boyd,; Opgenort, Jean Robert,; Peet, Karl A.,; Saxena, Anju,; Sharma, Suhnu Ram,; Sprigg, Richard K.,; Subbarao, Karumuri Venkata,; Sun, Jackson T.-S.,; Takahashi, Yoshiharu,; Vollmann, Ralf,; Watters, Stephen A.,; Zeisler, Bettina,; van Driem, George,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 196
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (442 p.)

The approximately 250 languages of the Tibeto-Burman family are spoken by 65 million speakers in ten different countries including Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and China/Tibet. They are characterized by a fascinating linguistic, historical and cultural diversity. The languages spoken in the...

Table of Contents

• I-XII
• Reasons for language shift: Theories, myths and counterevidence
• Directionals in Tokpe Gola Tibetan discourse
• The language history of Tibetan
• Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts
• Stem alternation and verbal valence in Themchen Tibetan
• A comparative and historical study of demonstratives and plural markers in Tamangic languages
• Grammatical peculiarities of two dialects of southern Kham Tibetan
• The Sampang word accent: Phonetic realisation and phonological function
• A low glide in Marphali
• Pronominally marked noun determiners in Limbu
• About Chaurasia
• Implications of labial place assimilation in Amdo Tibetan
• Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives
• The status of Bunan in the Tibeto-Burman family
• Tibetan orthography, the Balti dialect, and a contemporary phonological theory
• Case-marked PRO: Evidence from Rabha, Manipuri, Hindi-Urdu and Telugu
• Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan
• On the deictic patterns in Kinnauri (Pangi dialect)
• Tibetan grammar and the active/stative casemarking type
• The nature of narrative text in Dzongkha: Evidence from deixis, evidentially, and mirativity
• Sentence patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi: A field report
• Subject index
• Language index