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<div>Dear friends and colleagues,</div><div>I'd like to draw your attention to a PhD dissertation by Henrik Liljegren, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; ">Towards a grammatical description of Palula: An Indo-Aryan language of the Hindu Kush" <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">that was successfully defended at the Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm University a few days ago (supervisor – prof. Östen Dahl). All the members of the evaluation committee and the opponent agree that this is an excellent and comprehensive grammar, inspite of its modest title.</span></span></div><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">The abstract is given below.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">"This dissertation is intended to provide a grammatical description of the Indo-Aryan language Palula, spoken by approximately 10,000 people in Chitral District in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province. No study with the scope and detail of the current work has been presented in the past for this little-known language, and it is one of only a few in-depth studies available for languages in the immediate surrounding of the Hindu Kush region.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">The analysis is based on original data primarily collected during the period 1998-2006, mainly in the form of recorded texts but supplemented by questionnaires, notes of observed language use and the elicitation of word lists and paradigms. The field work has been conducted in close cooperation with native speakers and their communities.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">The description covers phonology, morphology, syntax and a range of the most important topics within each of these sub-disciplines, but it is not meant to be an exhaustive reference grammar. Some topics have been given greater prominence in the work, as they have particular importance to the language, whereas others have been covered more summarily. Suggestions for further research that should be undertaken are given throughout the study.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">The approach chosen is theory-informed rather than theory-driven, but an underlying framework of linguistic typology and non-formalism is assumed. Diachronic development is taken into account, particularly in the area of morphology, and comparisons with other languages and references to areal phenomena are included insofar as they were motivated and available."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div>The whole text of the dissertation can be found at </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.diva-portal.org/su/abstract.xsql?dbid=7511">http://www.diva-portal.org/su/abstract.xsql?dbid=7511</a></div></span></span></font></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm</div><div><br></div><div>Dept. of linguistics, Stockholm University</div><div>106 91 Stockholm, Sweden</div><div>tel.: +46-8-16 26 20</div><div><a href="mailto:tamm@ling.su.se">tamm@ling.su.se</a></div><div><a href="http://www.ling.su.se/staff/tamm">http://www.ling.su.se/staff/tamm</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></body></html>