<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>If anyone would like to review the volume below for LTBA please send a message to <a href="mailto:ltba.email@gmail.com">ltba.email@gmail.com</a>. Do not reply to this message.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Anna Passah <<a href="mailto:apassah@cambridge.org">apassah@cambridge.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>NEW - NORTH EAST INDIAN LINGUISTICS</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">27 January 2012 8:11:11 PM AEDT<br></span></div><br><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">TITLE
</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">North
East Indian Linguistics Volume 4</font>
<br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">EDITORS Gwendolyn
Hyslop, Stephen Morey, Mark W. Post</font>
<br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">ISBN
9788175969308</font>
<br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">PRICE
$60.00</font>
<br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">BLURB North
East India is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the world,
with over 100, and perhaps as many as 200, different languages spoken.
This book aims to produce a volume reflective of both the linguistic diversity
of the region as well as the high quality of current research on North
East Indian Linguistics. </font>
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<br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The article</font><font size="1" face="Times New Roman">s</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">
in this volume cover four of the language families represented in North
East India: Tai-Kadai, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, and Austroasiatic. Divided
into seven sections, the book presents the description and analysis of
a wide variety of phonological, syntactic, morphological, socio-linguistic
and historical topics in the study of several languages of the region </font><font size="3" face="Cambria">–
</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">origin of the Boro-Garo language
family, Boro-Garo grammar, serial verbs in a hitherto undescribed variety
of Boro, information about Dimasa dialects, phonology of Hajong, a language
of Assam and Meghalaya, and analysis of copula constructions in Assam Sadri.
The volume also contains an analysis of pronouns in Madhav Kandali’s Ramayana,
a version of the Ramayana written in colloquial Assamese of the fourteenth
century. The final section in this volume discusses serial verb constructions
in the Austroasiatic language war, the most detailed discussion of war
syntax and semantics to date. </font>
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<br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Contributions in this volume range
from renowned scholars of Tibeto-Burman linguistics to students from the
North East making their first impact in the field of Linguistics. The book
will be of interest to linguists, anthropologists, social scientists and
general readers with an interest in the study, preservation and appreciation
of North East Indian cultural and linguistic diversity.</font>
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<br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Regards,</font>
<br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Anna</font>
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