36.3246, Books: A Grammar of Kangri: Swadeshi (2025)

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Date: 23-Oct-2025
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: A Grammar of Kangri: Swadeshi (2025)


Title: A Grammar of Kangri
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 497
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783862885244%22

Author(s): Anil Kumar Swadeshi

Paperbak. 17x24cm. ISBN 978 3 86288 524 4. Languages of the
World/Materials 497. 74pp. EUR 60.80. 2025.

Abstract:

The study attempts to classify all the sounds found in Kangri language
by its phonetics and phonology and to discuss morphological and
syntactic properties of the language. The study also explores the
changes that occur in the structure of the language while showing the
properties of verb-agreement and ergativity. The study was conducted
in the Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh where ‘Kangri’ is used as
a lingua franca. This language can be classified as a lesser known
language since not much work has been done on this.
The ‘Kangri’ language like other languages in the Indo-Aryan family to
which it belongs, shows three kinds of agreement: Subject-Verb
agreement, Object-Verb Agreement and Default agreement. In terms of
its distinctive properties, the language reveals many interesting and
amusing facts that are rarely found in other languages. In
Introduction a brief introduction to the area where Kangri is spoken
and to the language family to which it belongs has been given. In
second chapter ‘phonetics and phonology’ all the sounds have been
classified with reference to the occurrence of these sounds in the
words whereas in the third and fourth chapter morphology and syntax of
the language respectively have been defined.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Kangri (xnr)

Written In: English (eng)



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