1 Introduction: Kanashi, its speakers, its linguistic and extralinguistic context

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements VII
4. Abbreviations IX
5. Synchrony: description
6. 1 Introduction: Kanashi, its speakers, its linguistic and extralinguistic context 1
7. 2 The sound system of Kanashi 13
8. 3 A linguistic sketch of Kanashi 53
9. Synchrony: variation
10. 4 Linguistic variation: a challenge for describing the phonology of Kanashi 131
11. 5 And then there was one: Kanashi numerals from borrowed superdiversity to borrowed uniformity 145
12. Diachrony
13. 6 Clues to Kanashi prehistory 1: loanword adaptation in nouns and adjectives 173
14. 7 Clues to Kanashi prehistory 2: loanword adaptation in verbs 215
15. Synthesis
16. 8 Kanashi and West Himalayish: genealogy, language contact, prehistoric migrations 237
17. Kanashi basic vocabulary
18. 9 Kanashi basic vocabulary 257
19. Subject and language index 317