A grammar of Dhimal / / by John T. King.
The present work, a grammar of Dhimal, fills an important void in the documentation of the vast and ramified Tibeto-Burman language family. Dhimal, a little known and endangered tongue spoken in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal by about 20,000 individuals, is detailed in this work. With data gathe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2009. |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Tibetan Studies Library
5/8. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (633 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / J.T. King
- Chapter One. Introduction / J.T. King
- Chapter Two. Phonology / J.T. King
- Chapter Three. Nominal Morphology / J.T. King
- Chapter Four. Verbal Morphology / J.T. King
- Chapter Five. The Sentence / J.T. King
- Text One. Courting / J.T. King
- Text Two. Catching Rats / J.T. King
- Text Three. Hunting Monitor Lizards / J.T. King
- Text Four. The Lowland Strong Man / J.T. King
- Text Five. The Tiger And The Yogi / J.T. King
- Text Six. The Splitting Of The Banana Leaf / J.T. King
- Text Seven. The Jackal And The Bear / J.T. King
- Text Eight. The Snake Husband / J.T. King
- Text Nine. The Boy And The Kings Daughter / J.T. King
- Text Ten. The Evil Stepmother / J.T. King
- Text Eleven. Where Chickens Come From / J.T. King
- Text Twelve. Shit Eater / J.T. King
- Text Thirteen. The Sick One / J.T. King
- Text Fourteen. Text Fourteen / J.T. King
- Text Fifteen. Wedding Ceremony / J.T. King
- Text Sixteen. Asare Celebration / J.T. King
- Text Seventeen. Later Clan Worship During Parba / J.T. King
- Riddles / J.T. King
- Songs / J.T. King
- Inflexional Paradigms / J.T. King
- Kinship Terms / J.T. King
- Dhimal-English Glossary / J.T. King
- Bibliography / J.T. King.