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The language history of Tibetan

  • Philip Denwood
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Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond
This chapter is in the book Linguistics of the Himalayas and Beyond

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
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110968996.47

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
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