[Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Antwort: Re: Descriptive grammar of Kinnauri - DD Sharma

Sun Jun 18 19:18:16 UTC 2017

Dear Stephen,

the only two persons who have done a substantial amount of fieldwork on Homskad (a.k.a. Hamskat / Standard Kinnauri / Milchan) over the past two decades are Anju Saxena and Yoshiharu Takahashi. As far as I am aware, only Yoshiharu Takahashi has been working towards a grammar of the language. However, when I was in touch with him the last time, he told me that he was only making slow progress. I have not been in contact with im since January 2015 and have no idea how far he has come with his project. 

There are three other persons working in the area: Christian Huber (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Philippe Martinez (SOAS), and myself. However, our primary interests lie in languages different from Homskad (note that Kinnaur district is home to many different Tibeto-Burman languages. There are six West Himalayish languages and Tibetic varieties spoken in the area).

If you want to, you are more than welcome to put your friend in contact with me. It's always nice to be in touch with people from local communities who are interested in supporting fieldwork on their languages.

Best,
Manuel

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An: Nathan Hill <nh36 at soas.ac.uk>, "B. Zeisler" <zeis at uni-tuebingen.de>
Von: Stephen Morey 
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Betreff: Re: [Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Descriptive grammar of Kinnauri -	DD Sharma

Dear Everyone,

One of my Facebook friends, Mr Chander Mohan Negi, who lives at Recong Peo in Kinnaur district, has asked me the following question:

"what are the chances to document the dialect of trans Himalayan region like Homskad and various other."

I have sent him a copy of Takahashi's description of the Pangi village variety,  but I am wondering who is currently working in this area, so that I can inform Mr Negi and put them into contact with him? 

Stephen

Stephen Morey
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Department of Languages and Linguistics
La Trobe University
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Subject: Re: [Tibeto-burman-linguistics] Descriptive grammar of Kinnauri - DD Sharma

Dear Bettina, 

You are certainly right that Sharma's descriptions are not unproblematic in all details; I find that Takahashi is the most reliable scholar working on Kinnauri. I attach his Kinnauri works that I happen to have electronically. 

best, 
Nathan

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On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 10:48 AM, B. Zeisler <zeis at uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
I wouldn't rely on DD Sharma.
What I have seen of his work is most problematic.
Perhaps ask Anju Saxena for more reliable data?
Best
Bettina

Alice Vittrant- Villejuif schrieb:
Dear Colleagues, 

Would anyone happen to have an electronic version of the Descriptive grammar of Kinnauri  by DD Sharma, and be able to share it with me? 

A Descriptive Grammar of Kinnauri, 1988
Devīdatta Śarmā
MITTAL Publications, INDIA

Thank you, 

Alice
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