Author: Dorte Borchers
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: greater, himalayan, region, grammar, languages, tibetan, studies, library, brill, sunwar, texts, paradigms, descriptive, glossary
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 2008-03-15
List price: $132.00
ISBN-10: 9004167099
ISBN-13: 9789004167094

This description of Sunwar, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal, is based on extensive field work by the author and contains a chapter with background information on the Sunwar language, its speakers and their culture, followed by sections on the phonology, the indigenous writing system and the morphology of Sunwar. Verb paradigms, glossed texts, a Sunwar-English glossary and bibliographical references are also presented. Contact between the Sunwar and Nepali languages resulted in language change, most visible in the verbal system, where the older biactantial agreement