Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. Reasons for language shift: Theories, myths and counterevidence 1
3. Directionals in Tokpe Gola Tibetan discourse 23
4. The language history of Tibetan 47
5. Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts 71
6. Stem alternation and verbal valence in Themchen Tibetan 85
7. A comparative and historical study of demonstratives and plural markers in Tamangic languages 97
8. Grammatical peculiarities of two dialects of southern Kham Tibetan 119
9. The Sampang word accent: Phonetic realisation and phonological function 153
10. A low glide in Marphali 163
11. Pronominally marked noun determiners in Limbu 189
12. About Chaurasia 203
13. Implications of labial place assimilation in Amdo Tibetan 225
14. Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives 247
15. The status of Bunan in the Tibeto-Burman family 265
16. Tibetan orthography, the Balti dialect, and a contemporary phonological theory 279
17. Case-marked PRO: Evidence from Rabha, Manipuri, Hindi-Urdu and Telugu 291
18. Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan 323
19. On the deictic patterns in Kinnauri (Pangi dialect) 341
20. Tibetan grammar and the active/stative casemarking type 355
21. The nature of narrative text in Dzongkha: Evidence from deixis, evidentially, and mirativity 381
22. Sentence patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi: A field report 399
23. Subject index 427
24. Language index 436