Linguistics of the and Beyond

edited by Roland Bielmeier Felix Haller

Mouton de Gruyter Berlin • New York Contents

Editorial . v

Reasons for language shift: Theories, myths and counterevidence 1 Dorte Borchers

Directionals in Tokpe Gola Tibetan discourse 23 Nancy J. Caplow

The language history of Tibetan 47 Philip Denwood

Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts 71

Stem alternation and verbal valence in Themchen Tibetan 85 Felix Holier

A comparative and historical study of demonstratives and plural markers in 97 Isao Honda

Grammatical peculiarities of two dialects of southern Kham Tibetan 119 Krisadawan Hongladarom

The Sampang word accent: Phonetic realisation and phonological function 153 RendHuysmans

A low glide in Marphali 163 Martine Mazaudon

Pronominally marked noun determiners in Limbu 189 Boyd Michailovsky xii Contents

About Chaurasia 203 Jean Robert Opgenort

Implications of labial place assimilation in 225 KarlA.Peet

Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives 247 Anju Saxena

The status of Bunan in the Tibeto-Burman family 265 Suhnu Ram Sharma

Tibetan orthography, the Balti dialect, and a contemporary phonological theory 279 Richard K. Sprigg

Case-marked PRO: Evidence from Rabha, Manipuri, Hindi- and Telugu 291 Karumuri Venkata Subbarao, Upen Rabha Hakacham, and Thokchom Sarju Devi

Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan 323 Jackson T.-S. Sun

On the deictic patterns in Kinnauri (Pangi dialect) 341 Yoshiharu Takahashi

Tibetan grammar and. the active/stative case-marking type 355 Ralf Vollmann

The nature of narrative text in : Evidence from deixis, evidentially, and mirativity 381 Stephen A. Waiters

Sentence patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi: A field report 399 Bettina Zeisler.

Subject index 427 Language index 436