Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 5 A Grammar of Lepcha

Biographical note Readership

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Book

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xvi, 256 pp.

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BRILL

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English

Biographical note

Heleen Plaisier defended her Ph.D. in Leiden in 2006. She published a descriptive catalogue of the extensive collection of old Lepcha manuscripts at Leiden in 2003 and is currently working on a critical edition of an unpublished late nineteenth-century Lepcha dictionary.

Readership

All those interested in Himalayan, Tibeto-Burman and Sino-Tibetan languages, linguistics and cultures, as well as those interested in descriptive linguistics in general or in the history of scripts and writing.

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9789004255692

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