Linguistics of the Himalayas 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 George van Driem
Stem alternation and verbal valence in Themchen Tibetan 85 Felix Holier
A comparative and historical study of demonstratives and plural markers in Tamangic languages 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 Amdo Tibetan 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-Urdu 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 Dzongkha: 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