Fw: H-ASIA: Member pub: Himalayan Languages and Linguistics, ed. Mark Turin & Bettina Zeisler

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Subject: H-ASIA: Member pub: Himalayan Languages and Linguistics, ed. Mark
Turin & Bettina Zeisler

> H-ASIA
> May 12, 2011
>
> Member's publication: Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler, editors Mark Turin
> and Bettina Zeisler, _Himalayan Languages and Linguistics: Studies in
> Phonology, Semantics, Morphology and Syntax_
>
> ************************************************************************
> From: Mark Turin <markturin@gmail.com>
>
> Dear Colleagues on the H-ASIA list,
>
> As editors of a new volume, we are happy to announce
> the publication of:
>
> _Himalayan Languages and Linguistics: Studies in Phonology,
> Semantics, Morphology and Syntax_
> Editors: Mark Turin, Bettina Zeisler
>
> Series: Brill's Tibetan Studies Library
> ISSN: 1568-6183
> Category: Language & Linguistics - Languages of Asia
> and Central Asia
> BIC2: Sino-Tibetan languages
>
> ISBN13: 9789004194489
> Version: Hardback
> Publication Type: Book
> Pages, Illustrations: viii, 322 pp.
> Imprint: BRILL
> Language: English
>
> The volume gathers together nine original contributions on
> the Tibeto-Burman and Indo-Aryan languages of Himalayan
> region. Drawing on primary fieldwork in China, India, Nepal
> and Pakistan, as well as on comparative sources, the new
> analyses outlined in these contributions will interest a
> readership of linguists, philologists, anthropologists, historians,
> lexicographers and specialists in the languages and cultures
> of Inner and South Asia. Contributions cover topics such
> as linguistic palaeontology, orthographical standardisation,
> dialectology, phonology, morphology, semantics and syntax.
>
> TABLE OF CONTENTS
>
> Notes on Contributors vii
>
> Introduction 1
> Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler
>
> PART ONE: The Himalayas in history
>
> Lost in the sands of time somewhere north of the Bay of Bengal 13
> George van Driem
>
> PART TWO: Phonology and script
>
> A key to four transcription systems of Lepcha 41
> Heleen Plaisier
>
> Dialectal Particularities of Sogpho Tibetan -
> An Introduction to the "Twenty-four villages' patois" 55
> Hiroyuki Suzuki
>
> PART THREE: Semantics (words and word classes)
>
> On the Old Tibetan Term Khrin in the Legal and
> Ritual Lexicons 77
> Brandon Dotson
>
> A functional analysis of adjectives in Newar 99
> Kazuyuki Kiryu*
>
> PART FOUR: Morphology and syntax
>
> The Role of Animacy in the Verbal Morphology of
> Dongwang Tibetan 133
> Ellen Bartee
>
> The Sampang verbal agreement system 183
> René Huysmans
>
> Ergativity in Kundal Shahi, Kashmiri and Hindko 219
> Khawaja A. Rehman
>
> Kenhat, the dialects of Upper Ladakh and Zanskar 235
> Bettina Zeisler
>
> Index 303
>
> More information can be found on the publisher's website:
> <http://www.brill.nl/himalayan-languages-and-linguistics>
>
> And please follow the link below for a list of contributors:
> <http://bit.ly/HLL_Contents>
>
> With all good wishes,
>
> Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler
> \
> Mark Turin
> World Oral Literature Project
> Cambridge University
>
> Bettina Zeisler
> Indologie und Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
> Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
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