The Linguistic Landscape of the Indian Himalayas

Languages in Kinnaur
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51224-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 946 g

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

This monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in Kinnaur, are described both individually and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology that extends into the surrounding
wider Himalayan region.

The author combines traditional linguistic description and a quantitative computational procedure to disentangle genealogical and areal
characteristics of the languages of Kinnaur.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saxena, Anju

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Notation, Terminology and Abbreviations

1 Introduction—Kinnaur: Geography, Demography and Languages

1 Introduction

2 The Geography of Kinnaur

3 Administrative Units in Kinnaur

4 Demography of Kinnaur

5 Number of KST Speakers

6 Some Questions to Be Addressed in This Work

2 A Linguistic Sketch of Kinnauri

1 Introduction

2 Phonology

3 Noun Phrase

4 The Verb Complex

5 Clauses and Sentences

Appendix 2A: Kinnauri Basic Vocabulary (by Anju Saxena and Santosh Negi)

3 A Linguistic Sketch of Navakat

1 Introduction

2 Phonology

3 Noun Phrase

4 The Verb Complex

5 Clauses and Sentences

Appendix 3A: Classical Tibetan Verb Stems and Their Correspondences in Navakat

Appendix 3B: Navakat Basic Vocabulary (by Anju Saxena and Padam Sagar)

4 A Linguistic Sketch of Kinnauri Pahari

1 Introduction

2 Phonology

3 Noun Phrase

4 The Verb Complex

5 Clauses and Sentences

Appendix 4A: Some Comparisons between Kinnauri Pahari and Other Pahari Languages

Appendix 4B: Kinnauri Pahari Basic Vocabulary (by Anju Saxena and Vikram Negi)

5 Linguistic Relationships in Kinnaur I: Sino-Tibetan

1 Introduction

2 Data Collection

3 Methodology

4 Towards Linguistically Informed Computational Lexicostatistics

5 Results: Vocabulary

6 Results: Grammatical Features

7 KST Varieties and Their Classification

Appendix 5A: Questionnaire Items and Vocabulary Comparison Tables

6 Linguistic Relationships in Kinnaur II: Language Contact between Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan

1 Introduction

2 Language Contact in Kinnaur

3 Kinnauri and Kinnauri Pahari: Shared Linguistic Features

4 Summary

7 The Many-Faceted Linguistic Landscape of Kinnaur

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anju Saxena, Ph.D. (1992), University of Oregon, is Professor of Linguistics at Uppsala University. She has long experience with researching and conducting fieldwork on South Asian languages. Her publications include Himalayan Languages (De Gruyter Mouton, 2004) and the co-edited volume Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences (De Gruyter Mouton, 2013). She has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton) and as Series Editor of Brill’s Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages (Brill).