Introduction
Linguistic synchrony and diachrony on the roof of the world - the
study of Himalayan languages Anju Saxena
Descriptive linguistics
A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects Ruth Laila Schmidt ·
Retroflex vowels and other peculiarities in the Kalasha sound
system Jan Heegård and Ida Elisabeth Mørch · Direction and
differential dative case marking in Magar Karen Grunow-Hårsta ·
Thangmi kinship terminology in comparative perspective Mark Turin ·
Hidden syntax in Belhare Balthasar Bickel · On the notion of
sentence in Classical Tibetan Claus Oetke · On discourse functions
of the finite verb in Kinnauri narratives Anju Saxena
Language change
Preverbal modifiers in Sunwar Werner Winter · Directional prefixes
in Kathmandu Newar David Hargreaves · Grammaticalization of deictic
motion verbs in Seke Isao Honda · "Do" as subordinator in Tshangla
Erik Andvik · Morphosyntactic transparency in Bantawa Jadranka
Gvozdanovic · Areal semantics - is there such a thing? James A.
Matisoff · Shafer's proto-West Bodish hypothesis and the formation
of the Tibetan verb paradigms Roland Bielmeier · Newaric and
Mahakiranti George van Driem
Indices
Subject index
Language index
Anju Saxena is Professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.
"With topics from descriptive Dardic phonolgy, to comparative Tibeto-Burman morphosyntax and genealogy, and universals of semantic change, this collection proves to be a diverse set of papers that would be of interest to any linguist specializing in the Himalayas, or any of the other topics mentioned here."Gwendolyn Lowes in: Journal of Himalayan Linguistics 2006
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