Trans-Himalayan Linguistics Historical and Descriptive Linguistics of the Himalayan Area

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Main Authors Owen-Smith, Thomas, Hill, Nathan
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany De Gruyter 2013
De Gruyter, Inc
De Gruyter Mouton
Edition1
SeriesTrends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
Subjects
Himalaya Mountains Region
Historical linguistics
History
Language
Languages
Tibeto-Burman languages
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Introduction -- Trans-Himalayan -- Creolization in the Divergence of the Tibeto-Burman Languages -- Rethinking Sino-Tibetan phylogeny from the perspective of North East Indian languages -- The Tibetic languages and their classification -- Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon -- A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish -- Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo-European origin -- Subject and object agreement in Shumcho -- The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na: a synchronic description and analysis -- Rengmitca: the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh -- Initial Grammatical Sketch of Tilung -- Tshangla Phonology and a Standard Tshangla Orthography -- Index