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.