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: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 266, 452 Seiten

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

Zielgruppe

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owen-Smith, Thomas

Hill, Nathan

Fachgebiete

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

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.