33.1833, Books: Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi: Saxena, Borin

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Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 18:52:51
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi: Saxena, Borin

 


Title: Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects of Kanashi 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110703245/html 


Author: Anju Saxena
Author: Lars Borin

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110703245 Pages: 330 Price: ----   Comment: Open Access
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110703153 Pages: 330 Price: ----  154.99


Abstract:

Kanashi, a Sino-Tibetan (ST) language belonging to the West Himalayish (WH)
subbranch of this language family, is spoken in one single village (Malana in
Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh state, India), which is surrounded by
villages where – entirely unrelated – Indo-Aryan (IA) languages are spoken.
Until we started working on Kanashi, very little linguistic material was
available. Researchers have long speculated about the prehistory of Kanashi:
how did it happen that it ended up spoken in one single village, completely
cut off from its closest linguistic relatives? Even though suggestions have
been made of a close genealogical relation between Kanashi and Kinnauri
(another WH language), at present separated by over 200 km of rugged
mountainous terrain, their shared linguistic features have not been discussed
in the literature.

Based on primary fieldwork, this volume presents some synchronic and
diachronic aspects of Kanashi, including the linguistic description of its
intriguing numeral systems as well as basic vocabulary lists (Kanashi-English,
English-Kanashi).

As for the diachronic and genealogical aspects, we compare and contrast
Kanashi with other ST languages of this region (in particular languages of
Kinnaur, notably Kinnauri), thereby uncovering some intriguing linguistic
features common to Kanashi and Kinnauri which provide insights into their
common history. Intriguingly, traces of some of these features are also found
in some ST languages belonging to different ST subgroups (both WH and non-WH),
spoken in Uttarakhand in India and in western Nepal (e.g. Rongpo, Chaudangsi,
Raji and Raute). This raises fundamental questions regarding genealogical
classification, language contact and prehistory of the WH group of languages
and of this part of the Indian Himalayas, which are also discussed in the
volume.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Kanashi (xns)


Written In: English  (eng)

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