Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area

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Category : Linguistic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 934

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Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area

Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area PDF Author:
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Category : Linguistic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 934

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Egophoricity

Egophoricity PDF Author: Simeon Floyd
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027265542
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515

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Egophoricity refers to the grammaticalised encoding of personal knowledge or involvement of a conscious self in a represented event or situation. Most typically, a marker that is egophoric is found with first person subjects in declarative sentences and with second person subjects in interrogative sentences. This person sensitivity reflects the fact that speakers generally know most about their own affairs, while in questions this epistemic authority typically shifts to the addressee. First described for Tibeto-Burman languages, egophoric-like patterns have now been documented in a number of other regions around the world, including languages of Western China, the Andean region of South America, the Caucasus, Papua New Guinea, and elsewhere. This book is a first attempt to place detailed descriptions of this understudied grammatical category side by side and to add to the cross-linguistic picture of how ideas of self and other are encoded and projected in language. The diverse but conceptually related egophoric phenomena described in its chapters provide fascinating case studies for how structural patterns in morphosyntax are forged under intersubjective, interactional pressures as we link elements of our speech to our speech situation.

Tibeto-Burman Tonology

Tibeto-Burman Tonology PDF Author: Alfons Weidert
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027235481
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 531

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This monograph lays the foundation for a prosodological theory of Tibeto-Burman languages within a comparative and reconstructional framework. It is primarily based on data collections of mostly unknown languages on which the author worked for more than 10 years on several projects. This comparative study of tonology represents a significant contribution not only to the historical-comparative study of Tibeto-Burman, but also to the larger field of linguistic theory, especially now that the subject increasingly begins to be approached along diachronic lines. With this in mind, it is hoped that this work will provoke future research in the field.

Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages

Research on Tibeto-Burman Languages PDF Author: Austin Hale
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311082549X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman

Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman PDF Author: James A. Matisoff
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520098439
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 802

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A Grammar of Dhimal

A Grammar of Dhimal PDF Author: King John T.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004175733
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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The present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little known and endangered tongue spoken in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal by about 20,000 individuals, is detailed in this work. With data gathered in the village of hiy b r , the author crafts a readable description of the western dialect, using over 1000 examples to illustrate usage. Included in this reference work are seventeen texts, riddles, songs and a Dhimal-English glossary. Joining other recent ground-breaking linguistic descriptions by researchers from the Himalayan Languages Project at Leiden University, this grammar of Dhimal will have lasting scientific value and aid the Dhimal community in preserving their language.

Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV

Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV PDF Author: Nathan Hill
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004232028
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 491

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While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model.

Trans-Himalayan Linguistics

Trans-Himalayan Linguistics PDF Author: Thomas Owen-Smith
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311031083X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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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.

Sino-Tibetan

Sino-Tibetan PDF Author: Paul K. Benedict
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521081750
Category : Sino-Tibetan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia

The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia PDF Author: Paul Sidwell
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110558149
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 983

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The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.