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Title Himalayan languages and linguistics : studies in phonology, semantics, morphology and syntax / edited by Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 322 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Brill's Tibetan studies library, 1568-6183 ; v. 5/12. Languages of the greater Himalayan region
Brill's Tibetan studies library ; v. 5/12.
Brill's Tibetan studies library. Languages of the greater Himalayan region.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Notes on contributors; Introduction; PART ONE: The Himalayas in history; Lost in the sands of time somewhere north of the Bay of Bengal; PART TWO: Phonology and script; A key to four transcription systems of Lepcha; Dialectal particularities of Sogpho Tibetan -- an introduction to the "Twenty-four villages' patois"; PART THREE: Semantics (words and word classes); On the Old Tibetan Term Khrin in the legal and ritual lexicons; A functional analysis of adjectives in Newar; PART FOUR: Morphology and syntax; The role of animacy in the verbal morphology of Dongwang Tibetan.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Tibeto-Burman languages.
Tibeto-Burman languages.
Himalaya Mountains Region -- Languages.
Himalaya Mountains Region.
Language and languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Turin, Mark.
Zeisler, Bettina.
Other Form: Print version: Himalayan languages and linguistics. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004194489 (DLC) 2011012997 (OCoLC)709890522
ISBN 9789004216532 (electronic book)
9004216537 (electronic book)
1283161168
9781283161169
9789004194489
9004194487