Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region

Edited by George L. van Driem

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George van Driem

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5
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1568-6183
€158.00$220.00
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BTSL
Volume:
13
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004232020
Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages IV
Edited by Nathan W. Hill, SOAS, London
While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model.
€115.00$149.00
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BTSL
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5/9
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Hardback
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9789004176867
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 9 A Grammar of Anong
Hongkai Sun and Guangkun Liu. Translated, annotated, and supplemented by Fengxiang Li, Ela Thurgood and Graham Thurgood
A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu.
€194.00$251.00
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BTSL
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5/8
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Hardback
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9789004175730
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 8 A Grammar of Dhimal
John T. King
This groundbreaking reference work is a linguistic description of the western dialect of Dhimal, a hitherto little-known and endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 20,000 individuals of the same name in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal and northeastern India.
€100.00$130.00
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5/7
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Hardback
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9789004167094
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar
Dörte Borchers
This description of Sunwar, spoken in eastern Nepal, offers an overview of the language, the culture of its speakers, a collection of glossed texts and a glossary; and it shows how suffix conjugations developed as the result of language contact.
€169.00$232.00
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5/6
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9789004155268
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 6: A Grammar of the Thangmi Language (2 vols)
Mark Turin
This monograph is a grammar of Thangmi, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in central-eastern Nepal. Alongside a collection of glossed oral texts and a trilingual lexicon, an extensive ethnolinguistic introduction to the speakers and their culture is also provided.
€104.00$135.00
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BTSL
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5/5
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Hardback
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9789004155251
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 5 A Grammar of Lepcha
Heleen Plaisier
This highly readable book is the first comprehensive reference grammar of the Lepcha language of Darjeeling, Sikkim and Kalimpong. This grammar explains the structure of the language, its sound system and salient features, and includes a lexicon and cultural history.
€109.00$141.00
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5/4
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9789004153301
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 4 Grammar of Kulung
Gerard Jacobus Tolsma
This book is the first description of Kulung, a complex-pronominalising Kiranti (Tibeto-Burman) language spoken in eastern Nepal. This grammar of Kulung is an exhaustive reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, and linguistic theory.
€127.00$165.00
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BTSL
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5/3
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Hardback
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ISBN13:
9789004145054
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 3 A Grammar of Jero
Jean Robert Opgenort
This is the first description of the complex-pronominalising (endangered) language of the Jero Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal. The book also contains a historical comparative study of the Kiranti languages. An exhaustive reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language ...
€190.00$246.00
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BTSL
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5/2
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Hardback
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ISBN13:
9789004138315
Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 2 A Grammar of Wambule
Jean Robert Opgenort
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.
€111.00$144.00
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BTSL
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5/12
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004194489
Himalayan Languages and Linguistics
Edited by Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler
Himalayan Languages and Linguistics is an edited collection of new and unpublished primary research findings, some fresh from the field and others derived from comparative textual material, on the Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan and Austroasiatic languages of this important and underdocumented ...
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