The impressive selection of languages and linguistic topics dealt with in this book underlines the diversity of the Tibeto-Burman languages in Central and South Asia and highlights their place within present-day linguistic research. The results achieved by leading experts are remarkable in general, and the book is of interest to linguists, anthropologists and geographers.
Reasons for language shift : theories, myths, and counterevidence / Dörte Borchers -- Directionals in Tokpe Gola Tibetan discourse / Nancy J. Caplow -- The language history of Tibetan / Philip Denwood -- Dzala and Dakpa form a coherent subgroup within East Bodish, and some related thoughts / George van Driem -- Stem alternation and verbal valence in Themchen Tibetan / Felix Haller -- A comparative and historical study of demonstratives and plural markers in Tamangic languages / Isao Honda -- Grammatical peculiarities of two dialects of southern Kham Tibetan / Krisadawan Hongladarom -- The Sampang word accent : phonetic realisation and phonological function / René Huysmans -- A low glide in Marphali / Martine Mazaudon -- Pronominally marked noun determiners in Limbu / Boyd Michailovsky -- About Chaurasia / Jean Robert Opgenort -- Implications of labial place assimilation in Amdo Tibetan / Karl A. Peet -- Context shift and linguistic coding in Kinnauri narratives / Anju Saxena -- The status of Bunan in the Tibeto-Burman family / Suhnu Ram Sharma -- Tibetan orthography, the Balti dialect, and a contemporary phonological theory / Richard K. Sprigg -- Case-marked PRO : evidence from Rabha, Manipuri, Hindi-Urdu, and Telugu / Karumuri Venkata Subbarao, Upen Rabha Hakacham, and Thokchom Sarju Devi -- Perfective stem renovation in Khalong Tibetan / Jackson T.-S. Sun -- On the deictic patterns in Kinnauri (Pangi dialect) / Yoshiharu Takahashi -- Tibetan grammar and the active/stative case-marking type / Ralf Vollmann -- The nature of narrative text in Dzongkha : evidence from deixis, evidentiality, and mirativity / Stephen A. Watters -- Case patterns and pattern variation in Ladakhi : a field report / Bettina Zeisler.