A Grammar of Khortha

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71266-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

Khortha is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in Jharkhand, India. Netra P. Paudyal provides an in-depth analysis of Khortha grammar based on the data recorded during his field trips, elicited data, and sentences culled from printed literature. Alongside, it includes a fully glossed text, a comparative wordlist of lexical items from three different varieties of this language and verb paradigms, making it of great interest and value to linguists and typologists. Additionally, it highlights Khortha’s influence from Munda and other Indo-Aryan languages, with notable lexical borrowings, particularly from Santali. This comprehensive study makes a significant contribution to understanding the linguistic landscape of South Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

P Paudyal, Netra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Über Autor(innen)

Netra P. Paudyal, Ph.D. (2013), University of Zurich/University of Leipzig, is a research scholar and lecturer at the University of Kiel, Germany. His work includes several articles on Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman languages, focusing on documenting and analysing South Asian languages.