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Languages of the Himalayas : an ethnolinguistic handbook of the greater Himalayan Region : containing an introduction to the symbiotic theory of language

Print Book, English, 2001
Brill, Leiden, 2001
History
2 volumes (xxvi, 1375 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
9789004103900, 9789004120624, 9789004120631, 9004103902, 9004120629, 9004120637
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Contentsv
Prefaceix
Conventionsxi
List of Figures
xix
Known and Unknowable Prehistory
1(203)
Continents in Collision
2(58)
Ecce homo!
8(9)
The language-ready brain
17(16)
The language parasite and the symbiotic theory of language
33(27)
Language and Culture
60(75)
Original Sin and our virtuous nature
60(6)
The splitting of the symbol and the birth of syntax
66(25)
Culture and the antiquity of language
91(21)
The survival of languages and of implicit world views
112(23)
Three Versions of Prehistory
135(69)
The monogeneticist time warp
145(5)
Gazing beyond the event horizon
150(13)
Mixed languages and the maternal strand
163(12)
Language change
175(13)
Global dispersals and Himalayan habitats
188(16)
Kings of the Forest and Distant Horizons
204(129)
South Asian Relict Groups
205(57)
The Andaman Islanders
205(12)
The aboriginals of Serendip
217(25)
The Nahali
242(11)
Kings of the Forest
253(9)
Austroasiatic
262(36)
The vacillating fate of Vietnamese
266(4)
Austroasiatic literary languages
270(2)
Ancient South Asians
272(3)
The people in the Abode of Clouds
275(5)
Austroasiatics of Southeast Asia and the Nicobars
280(9)
The Austroasiatic homeland
289(9)
Beyond the Himalayan Horizon and Back Again
298(35)
Austronesian and more speculation on Austric
305(7)
Daic, Hmong-Mien and the Austro-Tai theory
312(12)
Scattered rice
324(4)
Daic languages in the Himalayan region
328(5)
The Tibeto-Burman Language Family
333(130)
From Turanian to Tibeto-Burman
334(74)
Indo-Chinese outlives Turanian
337(6)
The precarious position of Thai, Karen and Himalayan languages
343(5)
Several theories about Chinese
348(40)
Other Tibeto-Burman subgrouping proposals
388(20)
Neolithic and Bronze Age Volkerwanderungen
408(55)
Western Tibeto-Burmans and the Indian Eastern Neolithic
411(6)
Eastern Tibeto-Burman
417(4)
Northern Tibeto-Burmans and the Himalayas
421(12)
Southern Tibeto-Burmans
433(30)
The Brahmaputra and Beyond
463(127)
A Curious Gem
463(5)
The Mountains of the Sun Chariot
468(33)
The Kho-Bwa cluster
473(6)
Hrusish
479(2)
Tani
481(15)
The Mishmi clusters
496(5)
Children of the Brahmaputra
501(72)
Kachari-Koch or Bodo-Koch
502(9)
The Chutiya
511(5)
Greater Bodo
516(12)
The Garos of the Garo Hills
528(6)
The Koch subgroup and the Rajbangsis
534(8)
At the bend of the Brahmaputra
542(6)
Toto and Dhimal
548(19)
Northern Naga and Kachinic
567(6)
The Indo-Burmese Borderlands
573(17)
The Ao Cluster
576(1)
The Angami-Pochuri Cluster
577(3)
The Zeme, Tangkhul and Meithei Clusters
580(3)
Karbi or Mikir
583(1)
Mizo-Kuki-Chin and Mru
584(6)
A Wave Washes Across the Southern Flank
590(236)
Mahakiranti and Nepal
591(72)
Subjugation and acculturation of the Kirantis
600(14)
Divisions amongst the Kiranti
614(14)
Grammatical issues in Himalayan languages
628(35)
Greater Eastern Kiranti
663(35)
The Limbu of Limbuvan
665(13)
Yakkha, Chiling and the Athpahariya dialects
678(11)
Kiranti of the Upper Arun
689(9)
Central and Western Kiranti
698(30)
The Kiranti of Khambuvan
698(7)
The Kiranti of the southern hills
705(5)
Kiranti of the Upper Dudhkosi
710(12)
Northwest Kiranti
722(6)
Newaric or Para-Kiranti Languages
728(45)
The Licchavis and the Newars
733(8)
The Malla period and early European visitors
741(16)
The language of the Newars
757(9)
The Baram and the Thangmi
766(7)
Flotsam and Jetsam Along the Southern Slopes
773(53)
Magar and Kham
775(11)
Chepang and Bhujeli
786(8)
Men of the jungle
794(6)
The Lhokpu of southwestern Bhutan
800(11)
Accessories to accession
811(7)
Lepcha
818(8)
A Wave Laps Against the Northern Flank
826(168)
Bodish Languages
826(3)
Tibet and the Tibetan languages
829(105)
Documentation of the Tibetan language
846(9)
Inhabitants of hidden lands
855(15)
Bhutan, the duars and the British
870(21)
Dzongkha and her three sisters
891(17)
East Bodish languages
908(26)
The West Himalayish Languages
934(24)
West Himalayish south of the great Himalayan divide
935(11)
Zhangzhung, the sacred language of Bon
946(12)
Tamangic and Para-Bodish
958(36)
Gurung, Tamang and Thakali
958(19)
Scattered Tamangic languages
977(10)
Tshangla
987(7)
Zagrosians and Indo-Europeans
994(183)
The Elamites and the Dravidian Indus
995(44)
The Elamites and the Indus script
999(3)
Antecedents of the Elamite and Indus civilisations
1002(2)
Post-glacial environments
1004(7)
The Aryans come to the Indus Valley
1011(6)
Flight of the Dravidians
1017(12)
Brahui and the Dravidian Indus
1029(10)
The Coming of the Indo-Europeans
1039(36)
`van een ende de selve afcomste'
1039(12)
The homeland and branches of Indo-European
1051(14)
The linguistic Piltdown Man or just wishful thinking?
1065(5)
The Indo-Aryan invasion of the Subcontinent
1070(5)
Indo-Europeans of the Himalayas
1075(102)
The Iranians come to Persia
1076(2)
Infidels in the Land of Enlightenment
1078(8)
Aryan society and language
1086(17)
The rise of Nepal and Nepali
1103(15)
The Rana period and the Restoration
1118(15)
Khas Kura or Nepali
1133(10)
The great eastward exodus
1143(13)
Indo-Aryans of the foothills and plains
1156(21)
Burushaski and Beyond
1177(47)
The Burusho and Burushaski
1177(9)
Stray Siberians in the Himalayas
1186(20)
Remote relations of the Yenisseian languages
1195(3)
Greater Yenisseian and Burushaski
1198(4)
Burusho and Yenisseians in the archaeological record
1202(4)
The Huns and the Himalayas
1206(18)
Distant relatives and their neighbours
1213(11)
Bibliography1224(135)
Index1359