An Introduction to the Khasi Language

An Introduction to the Khasi Language

Author: W. Pryse

Publisher: Andesite Press

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781376220759

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A Grammar of Karbi

A Grammar of Karbi

Author: Linda Konnerth

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-06-08

Total Pages: 693

ISBN-13: 3110765039

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This is a comprehensive grammar of the Hills Karbi variety spoken predominantly in the Karbi Anglong districts. Karbi belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) family but its exact phylogenetic status has remained unclear. By providing a diachronically-oriented functional analysis of all structural levels of Karbi, this grammar offers a reference work that provides a thorough account of this language. The data in this grammar come from fieldwork that was primarily carried out in the district capital of Diphu although the corpus includes recordings of speakers from all over the two Karbi Anglong districts. This corpus is freely available both as fully glossed text in Himalayan Linguistics (Konnerth and Tisso 2018) and as original media files in ELAR (SOAS University of London). Now also including a glossary, this grammar is a thoroughly revised version of the 2014 dissertation of the author, which won the 2015 Pāṇini Award of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT). In this revised version, a few new sections have been added and numerous other sections have been thoroughly updated.


South Asian Languages

South Asian Languages

Author: Kārumūri V. Subbārāo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-03-26

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0521861489

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Explores the similarities and differences of about forty South Asian languages from the four different language families.


Khasi-English Dictionary

Khasi-English Dictionary

Author: U Nissor Singh

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016290654

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective

Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9004425608

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Austroasiatic Syntax in Areal and Diachronic Perspective elevates historical morpho-syntax to a research priority in the field of Southeast Asian language history, transcending the traditional focus on phonology and lexicon. The volume contains eleven chapters covering a wide range of aspects of diachronic Austroasiatic syntax, most of which contain new hypotheses, and several address topics that have never been dealt with before in print, such as clause structure and word order in the proto-language, and reconstruction of Munda morphology successfully integrating it into Austroasiatic language history. Also included is a list of proto-AA grammatical words with evaluative and contextualizing comments.


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.