Owen-Smith / Hill Trans-Himalayan Linguistics

Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-031083-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 266, 452 Seiten

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN

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 languages also remain poorly understood. This book brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region.The volume arises from papers given and topics discussed at the 16th Himalayan Languages Symposium in London in 2010. Most papers focus on Tibeto-Burman languages. These include topics relating to individual - mostly small and endangered - languages, such as Tilung, Shumcho, Rengmitca, Yongning Na and Tshangla; comparative research on the Tibetic, East Bodish and Tamangic language groups; and several papers whose scope covers the whole language family. The remaining paper deals with the origins of Burushaski, whose genetic affiliation remains uncertain.This book will be of special interest to scholars of Tibeto-Burman, and historical as well as general linguists.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Tibeto-Burman, Historical as well as General Linguists

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owen-Smith, Thomas

Hill, Nathan

Hill, Nathan W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction;9
2;Trans-Himalayan;19
3;Creolization in the Divergence of the Tibeto-Burman Languages;49
4;Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages;79
5;The Tibetic languages and their classification;113
6;Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon;139
7;A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish;163
8;Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo-European origin;189
9;Subject and object agreement in Shumcho;229
10;The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na: a synchronic description and analysis;283
11;Rengmitca: the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh;321
12;Initial Grammatical Sketch of Tilung;337
13;Tshangla Phonology and a Standard Tshangla Orthography;401
14;Index;445

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan W. Hill and Thomas Owen-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK.