Author: Alfons WeidertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Concise Limbu Grammar and Dictionary
Author: Alfons WeidertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A Grammar of Limbu
Author: George van DriemPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110846810
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
The series builds an extensive collection of high quality descriptions of languages around the world. Each volume offers a comprehensive grammatical description of a single language together with fully analyzed sample texts and, if appropriate, a word list and other relevant information which is available on the language in question. There are no restrictions as to language family or area, and although special attention is paid to hitherto undescribed languages, new and valuable treatments of better known languages are also included. No theoretical model is imposed on the authors; the only criterion is a high standard of scientific quality.
Concise Limbu Grammar and Dictionary
Author: Alfons WeidertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Classical Limbu Language
Author: Tej Man AngdembePublisher:
ISBN: 9789937849166
Category : Limbu language
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A Grammar of Limbu
Author: Govindabahādura TumbāhāṅaPublisher:
ISBN: 9789937524322
Category : Limbu language
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond
Author: Roland BielmeierPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110968991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
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 Himalayas, on their southern slopes and on the high Tibetan plateau in the north constitute the core of this diversity. Thus, the 21 papers mainly deal with these languages and some go even beyond to the area of the Blue Lake in northern Amdo and to southern Kham within linguistic Tibet. The ten papers dedicated to Tibetan linguistic studies offer approaches to the phonological analysis of Balti, to labial place assimilation, perfective stem renovation and stem alternation connected with verbal valence in Amdo Tibetan, to directional markers in Tokpe Gola in northeastern Nepal, to secondary verb constructions in Kham Tibetan, to narrative texts in Dzongkha, to case-marking patterns in various Tibetan dialects and to language history of Tibetan in general. Other papers deal with deictic patterns and narratives in western Himalayan Kinnauri and with the classification of neighbouring Bunan. With the Tamangic languages of northern Nepal the relationship between vowels and consonants and the development of demonstratives and plural markers are addressed. A further paper investigates the genetic relationship between Dzala and Dakpa, two East Bodish languages, and another one case-marking in Rabha and Manipuri in northeastern India. With the Kiranti languages Sampang, Limbu, Chaurasia and Sunwar in eastern Nepal, questions of accent, pronominally marked determiners, subclassification and language shift are discussed. The impressive selection of languages and linguistic topics dealt with in this book underlines the diversity of the Tibeto-Burman languages in Central and South Asia and highlights their place within present-day linguistic research. The results achieved by leading experts are remarkable in general, and the book is of interest to linguists, anthropologists and geographers.
Politics of Culture
Author: Tanka Bahadur SubbaPublisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125016939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This book traces the cultural proximity and the similar destinies of three Kirata communities living in the eastern Himalayas the Limbu, the Rai and the Yakkha. The author reconstructs the story of these communities on the basis of historical as well as ethnographic data and explains their need to reconstruct today an identity for themselves despite the time and cultural resources they have lost.
The Sino-Tibetan Languages
Author: Randy J. LaPollaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113579717X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
There are more native speakers of Sino-Tibetan languages than of any other language family in the world. Records of these languages are among the oldest for any human language, and the amount of active research on them, both diachronic and synchronic, has multiplied in the last few decades. This volume includes overview articles as well as descriptions of individual languages and comments on the subgroups in which they occur. In addition to a number of modern languages, there are descriptions of several ancient languages.
Phonological Domains
Author: Janet GrijzenhoutPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110217104
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book puts together recent theoretical developments in prosodic phonology by leading specialists and presents language particular investigations on the morphosyntax-phonology interface by expert linguists working on diverse languages such as German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish.
The Emergence of Distinctive Features
Author: Jeff MielkePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199207916
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"The Emergence of Distinctive Features will be of essential interest to phonologists and typologists, as well as to syntacticians, cognitive scientists, and scholars outside linguistics interested in the nature of language and its acquisition."--BOOK JACKET.