34.170, Books: A Grammar of Lhowa: Regmi, Regmi, Gelek

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:56:48
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammar of Lhowa: Regmi, Regmi, Gelek

 


Title: A Grammar of Lhowa 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 98  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   https://lincom-shop.eu/
	

Book URL: https://lincom-shop.eu/LSASL-98-A-Grammar-of-Lhowa/en 


Author: Dan Raj Regmi
Author: Ambika Regmi
Author: Jamyang Gelek Gurung

Hardback: ISBN:  9783969391396 Pages: 224 Price: Europe EURO 164


Abstract:

A Grammar of Lhowa
 
Dan Raj Regmi, Ambika Regmi & Jamyang Gelek Gurung
Tribhuvan University, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu University
 
This grammar, within the framework of adaptive approach, describes and
analyzes phonological and grammatical codes in Lhowa, a southern Tibetic
language, and compares them with those in Lhasa Tibetan and other Central
Bodish languages from typological perspective. Lhowa, a tonal language,
exhibits high-front and mid-front rounded vowels, murmured plosives and
voiceless lateral.
 
Typologically, it is an agglutinating and consistently ergative language.
Nouns are not marked for grammatical gender and number for agreement in the
complex of the verbs. However, they are marked for three numbers (viz.,
singular vs. dual vs. plural) and twelve case-roles. Lhowa distinguishes
personal pronouns in terms of social standing (viz., ordinary vs. honorific)
and clusivity (viz., inclusive vs. exclusive) in the first person plural.
Adjectives, numerals and quantifiers follow the nouns whereas demonstratives
and possessive pronouns precede the nouns.
 
In Lhowa, tense markers interact with aspect, modality and evidentiality.
Besides, Lhowa presents a verb agreement system which is closely related to
conjuct-disjunct distinction. Especially, egophoricity (viz., marking
distinctly for the first person) in the past tense is governed exclusively by
volitionality. Egophoricity is also evident in essential and existential
copulas. Like in Tibetan, tense is deduced from the general context of the
text. Lhowa, a dependent marking and extremely nominalizing language,
registers non-promotional type of passive. As a Tibetic language, Lhowa shares
a number of phonological and grammatical coding devices with Lhasa Tibetan and
languages belonging to gTsang cluster of Central Bodish. However, due to
inter-language contact, Lhowa exhibits some contact induced changes in the
phonological and grammatical coding devices which Lhasa Tibetan and other
members of gTsang cluster  do not normally display.
 
The co-author, Dr. Dan Raj Regmi, is Professor and former Head of  Central
Department of Linguistics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
 
The co-author, Dr. Ambika Regmi, has worked as the senior researcher in
Linguistic Survey of Nepal (LinSuN), Central Department of Linguistics,
Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
 
The co-author, Mr. Jamyang Gelek Gurung, a native speaker of Lhowa, is a young
and dedicated activist for the preservation, promotion and development of his
mother tongue. 
 
ISBN 9783969391396 (Hardbound). LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 98. 224
pp.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Tibetan (bod)


Written In: English  (eng)

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