31 - 36 of 36 results

LW/T 41: Interlinearized Texts in Dhimal with Grammar Notes

Product no.: ISBN 9783862888290
77.80
Price incl. VAT, plus delivery


Interlinearized Texts in Dhimal with Grammar Notes
 
Karnakhar Khatiwada
Tribhuvan University, Nepal
 
This book mainly contains four interlinearized texts in Dhimal. Dhimal is one of the Tibeto-Burman languages spoken by the Dhimals residing originally in the far-eastern Tarai region (i.e., Jhapa, Morang and Sunsari districts) of Nepal. According to the recent census (2011) of Nepal, the total number of Dhimal is 26, 298 which comprise 0.09% of the total population of the country.
 
The texts are transcribed using the phonetic symbols as far as practicable. Further, each word in the text is broken into morphemes. While glossing the morphemes the Leipzig glossing rules have been employed as far as possible. In this work, the interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses give information about the meanings and grammatical properties of individual words and parts of words.
 
This collection may basically serve two purposes. First, it may be instrumental as a reference material for the typological study of the Sino-Tibetan languages in general and the Tibeto-Burman languages of Himalayan  group in particular. Second, the folk-tale contents and the Dhimal indigineous knowledge embodied in these texts may provide valuable insights to those who wish to study the world view of the Dhimal speech community including the knowledge about Dhimal culture. A brief introduction of Dhimal language and major linguistic features included in this volume may be helpful to understand the linguistic structure of Dhimal.
 
ISBN 9783862888290. Languages of the World/Text Collections 41. 167pp. 2017.
Browse this category: Languages of the World/Text Collection (LW/T)

LW/T 42: Chitoniya Tharu Analyzed Text

Product no.: ISBN 9783862888429
75.80
Price incl. VAT, plus delivery


Chitoniya Tharu Analyzed Text
 
Jeetbahan: A Story Recited on the Day of Jitiya Pawani in Chitwan and Neighbouring Districts of Nepal
 
Krishna Prasad Paudyal
Tribhuvan University
 
Chitoniya Tharu is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by an indigenous group known as Tharu residing in the Chitwan and eastern part of Nawalparasi districts of Nepal. Jitiya Pawani is one of the most widely celebrated festivals in this community. It is celebrated for three days beginning on Ashwin Krishna Saptami, the seventh day of the crescent moon, and concluding on Aswin Krishna Nawami, the ninth day of the crescent moon that generally fall in the third week of September every year.
 
The text analyzed here is a mythological story that is recited during the Pooja practice in the evening of the Pawani proper when all the devotees listen to the story wishing their sons to be just like Jeetbahan, the protagonist of the story. Jeetbahan is an epic hero who wins every game when he is young and finds solutions to the problems of different people while he is in search of his God father. Having met his God father and solved the problems of concerned creatures, Jeetbahan, along with his two wives, returns home happy and prosperous. Ultimately, he conveys the God’s message to the community people that they all should celebrate a festival after Jeetbahan’s name so that they could be happy and prosperous like Jeetbahan himself. This text, thus, has great cultural importance, and as it contains different kinds of natural texts, it is even more significant from linguistic perspective.
 
ISBN 9783862888429. Languages of the World/Text Collections 42. 156pp. 2017.
Browse this category: Languages of the World/Text Collection (LW/T)

LW/T 43: Dangaura Tharu Narratives: A Textual Analysis

Product no.: ISBN 9783862888627
75.80
Price incl. VAT, plus delivery


Dangaura Tharu Narratives: A Textual Analysis
 
Krishna Prasad Paudyal
Tribhuvan University
 
Dangaura Tharu Narratives: A Textual Analysis is, as the title suggests, a collection of three Dangaura Tharu narratives which have been analyzed linguistically and translated into English. The narratives of this Indo-Aryan language analyzed here represent two different themes: adventure and social reformation. The stories “Phuljokhni Rani (A queen who weighs herself with flower)”, and “Kiranchandra and Gulbagwali” are the narratives of adventure, whereas “The King and the Carpenter’s Sons” depict a social problem in a patriarchal society.
 
The first two stories reflect the worldview of the Tharu people. As presented in these stories, this ethnic group has great faith in supernatural power and believes that a person with his knowledge and wisdom can achieve this power. The protagonists in both stories, who perform different activities which are beyond the imagination of common people, can be taken as examples. It is still believed that the Tharu ‘gurau’, the priests, used to possess supernatural power. They could perform any activity that is required for benevolent purposes. The protagonist of “Fuljokhni Rani” represents the gurau of this community.
 
The next story “The King and the Carpenter’s Sons” represents a patriarchal society with the theme of gender discrimination. The younger wife of the king is kicked out of the palace only because she gave birth to a baby girl. However, the denouement demonstrating the king’s acceptance of his daughter and wife indicates a possibility of reformation. Thus this analysis can have multiple uses. As it is a natural text collection and is abundant with linguistic information, a linguist can use it as an authentic source for comparative as well as typological studies. Besides, a sociologist or a student of literature can take it as a representation of Tharu community and their world view.
 
ISBN 9783862888627. Languages of the World/Text Collections 43. 160pp. 2018.
Browse this category: Languages of the World/Text Collection (LW/T)

LW/T 44: Texts of Niesu, a Southeastern Dialect of Nuosu: Analyzed Spontaneous Narratives and ...

Product no.: ISBN 9783969390016
69.80
Price incl. VAT, plus delivery


Texts of Niesu, a Southeastern Dialect of Nuosu: Analyzed Spontaneous Narratives and Grammatical Notes
 
Ding Hongdi, The University of Hong Kong
with
Misi Rymga
 
 
This book is a collection of the spontaneous narratives in Niesu, an under-studied member of the Ngwi (aka. Loloish) subgroup of the Burmic (aka. Burmese-Lolo or Burmese-Ngwi) language group of the Tibeto-Burman family (Bradley 1997, 2012). It is spoken by 662,922 people, who are officially recognized as Yi (彝族) (exonym) by the Han Chinese, residing in mountainous regions in Liangshan (literally 'Cool Mountains'), Sichuan, southwest China. 
 
Niesu [nie33 su33] is the autonym of the Niesu Yi people, with two sense-bearing morphemes, namely nie33  'black' and su33 'people', which means 'black people'. Niesu is the southeastern dialect of Nuosu which is a relatively well-studied variety of Nuosu proper. The current book is the first collection of texts based on Adur Niesu, spoken in Butuo, central Liangshan. 
 
ISBN 9783969390016. Languages of the World/Text Collections 44.  89pp. 2020.
Browse this category: Languages of the World/Text Collection (LW/T)

LW/T 45: Kaya pesh

Product no.: ISBN 9783969390061
81.80
Price incl. VAT, plus delivery


Kaya pesh
Relatos de la tradición oral pesh
 
Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco
Universidad de Bergen
 
Kaya pesh. Relatos de la tradición oral pesh, es el producto de un trabajo de campo en la comunidad de Subirana (Olancho, Honduras), donde se han recopilado relatos de la tradición oral de los pesh. Dichos relatos se encierran dentro de cuatro categorías: mitos, leyendas, tradiciones y anécdotas.
 
Los pesh son el único grupo étnico de afiliación chibcha presente en Honduras, los cuales aún manejan su lengua y muchas de las costumbres ancestrales; cuentan, además, con una riquísima tradición oral. Sin embargo, hasta ahora ha sido una cultura poco conocida, su lengua está en constante peligro de extinción, y los escasos estudios son muchas veces de difícil acceso; por otra parte, casi todas las leyendas y relatos tradicionales que se habían recogido anteriormente habían sido publicados en lengua española, con lo cual se restaba importancia al idioma original.
 
El presente libro intenta subsanar lo anterior, pues pretende ser un punto de partida para ahondar, de modo sistemático, en la tradición oral de este grupo hondureño. Los relatos aquí presentes se ofrecen en pesh, con una traducción estrecha en español; con esto se espera, además, avanzar en el conocimiento de su lengua, de su cultura ancestral y de su cosmovisión.
 

ISBN 9783969390061. Languages of the World/Text Collection 45. 152pp. 2020.

Browse this category: Languages of the World/Text Collection (LW/T)

LW/T 46: Bhojpuri

Product no.: ISBN 9783969390900
184.00
Price incl. VAT, plus delivery


Bhojpuri
(Analysed Corpus)
जीवंत भोजपुरी मजबून
 
Gopal Thakur
Linguistic Society of Nepal
 
This is an analysed corpus of Bhojpuri, an Indo-Aryan language, spoken mainly in the districts of central Madhesh (Sarlahi-Rupandehi) in Nepal and the adjacent Indian territories of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh with other provinces, too. Bhojpuri has also spread worldwide due to global migration. This corpus contains 13 texts that cover different genres of Bhojpuri, e.g., conversation, folktale, monologue, language use in rural surroundings and process of some agro-economic activities. Besides these, it covers examples of minimal pairs and positional arrangements of Bhojpuri phonemes.
 
In this book, texts have been provided at word and clause levels with descriptions of phonological, morpho-phonological, morphological and morphosyntactic aspects of Bhojpuri. The word or sentence is first presented in Devanagari alphabet. The text is transliterated in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). The IPA presentation is broken into morphemes. The lexical items of the morphemes are translated into English and the grammatical items are presented with their functional terminology in abbreviated form according to Leipzig glossing rules as far as practicable. At last, the free translation of the word or sentence is presented below each item.
 
Therefore, the book might be useful at home and abroad.
 

ISBN 9783969390900 (hardbound). Languages of the World/Text Collections 46. 386 pp. 2022

Browse these categories as well: New titles, Languages of the World/Text Collection (LW/T)
31 - 36 of 36 results