Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi /

Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi / / Anju Saxena, Lars Borin, editors.

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Kanashi, a Sino-Tibetan (ST) language belonging to the West Himalayish (WH) subbranch of this language family, is spoken in one single village (Malana in Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh state, India), which is surrounded by villages where - entirely unrelated - Indo-Aryan (IA) languages are spoken....

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TeilnehmendeR:
Saxena, Anju,
Borin, Lars,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Trends in linguistics
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Synchrony: description
  • 1 Introduction: Kanashi, its speakers, its linguistic and extralinguistic context
  • 2 The sound system of Kanashi
  • 3 A linguistic sketch of Kanashi
  • Synchrony: variation
  • 4 Linguistic variation: a challenge for describing the phonology of Kanashi
  • 5 And then there was one: Kanashi numerals from borrowed superdiversity to borrowed uniformity
  • Diachrony
  • 6 Clues to Kanashi prehistory 1: loanword adaptation in nouns and adjectives
  • 7 Clues to Kanashi prehistory 2: loanword adaptation in verbs
  • Synthesis
  • 8 Kanashi and West Himalayish: genealogy, language contact, prehistoric migrations
  • Kanashi basic vocabulary
  • 9 Kanashi basic vocabulary
  • Subject and language index.

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