A Grammar of Kham
A Grammar of Kham

Author: David E. Watters

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1139436082

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First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjectivals. Its verb morphology has implications for the understanding of the history of the entire Tibeto-Burman family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, deals with all major aspects of the language including segmental phonology, tone, word classes, noun phrases, nominalizations, transitivity alterations, tense-aspect-modality, non-declarative speech acts, and complex sentence structure. It provides copious examples throughout the exposition and includes three short native texts and a vocabulary of more than 400 words, many of them reconstructed for Proto-Kham and Proto-Tibeto-Burman.

A Grammar of Jero
A Grammar of Jero

Author: Jean Robert Opgenort

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2005-06-01

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 9047415086

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This description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the endangered (Tibeto-Burman) Jero language as spoken in eastern Nepal, appears in sequel to the author's 2004 Grammar of Wambule, the language most closely related to Jero. It pictures the complex-pronominalising language of the Jero Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal. With a historical comparative study of the Kiranti languages, the branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family to which both Jero and Wambule belong. An exhaustive and model reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology and linguistic theory. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies (www.iias.nl).

A Grammar of Dumi
A Grammar of Dumi

Author: George van Driem

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-07-22

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 3110880911

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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. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert.

The Genesis of Grammar
The Genesis of Grammar

Author: Bernd Heine

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-10-04

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 0199227764

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This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind. It considers whether these languages derive from a single ancestral language; what the structure of language was when it first evolved; and how the properties associated with modern human languages first arose.

A Grammar of Dumi
A Grammar of Dumi

Author: George van Driem

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9783110123517

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Dumi Rai is a Kiranti language spoken in Khotan district in the Everest zone of eastern Nepal. The Dumi speaking area is limited to five pancayats all abutting the Rava and Tap rivers near their confluence and upriver therefrom. The Dumi are now a minority in the area to which they are indigenous (constituting roughly a quarter of the population in Khotan district); retention is low and surviving speakers of Dumi are scarce. The material in this volume likely will comprise what is saved of the language for posterity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics

Author: Rajendra Singh

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-12-21

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 3110279754

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South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability.

Atlas of the World's Languages
Atlas of the World's Languages

Author: R.E. Asher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1317851099

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Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.

A Grammar of Wambule
A Grammar of Wambule

Author: Jean Robert Opgenort

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 948

ISBN-13: 9004138315

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An exhaustive reference work for Wambule/Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, linguistic theory "and" Wambule society and culture, and as such indispensable for any linguistic and anthropological library.

The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System
The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System

Author: James A. Matisoff

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-11-18

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0520098714

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This pioneering book is the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. It presents nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with discussions of possible Chinese cognates. Special attention is paid to patterns of semantic associations between the reproductive system and other areas of the lexicon.