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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


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Subject index
Language index

About the Author

Anju Saxena is Professor at the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Reviews

"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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