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Book SynopsisThis monograph is a contribution to the documentation of the linguistic situation of the Kinnaur district in Himachal Pradesh (Indian Himalayas) which has been so far almost undescribed. The Sino-Tibetan languages Kinnauri and Navakat and the Indo-Aryan language Kinnauri Pahari, all spoken in Kinnaur, are described both individually and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology that extends into the surrounding wider Himalayan region. The author combines traditional linguistic description and a quantitative computational procedure to disentangle genealogical and areal characteristics of the languages of Kinnaur.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notation, Terminology and Abbreviations 1 Introduction—Kinnaur: Geography, Demography and Languages 1 Introduction 2 The Geography of Kinnaur 3 Administrative Units in Kinnaur 4 Demography of Kinnaur 5 Number of KST Speakers 6 Some Questions to Be Addressed in This Work 2 A Linguistic Sketch of Kinnauri 1 Introduction 2 Phonology 3 Noun Phrase 4 The Verb Complex 5 Clauses and Sentences Appendix 2A: Kinnauri Basic Vocabulary (by Anju Saxena and Santosh Negi) 3 A Linguistic Sketch of Navakat 1 Introduction 2 Phonology 3 Noun Phrase 4 The Verb Complex 5 Clauses and Sentences Appendix 3A: Classical Tibetan Verb Stems and Their Correspondences in Navakat Appendix 3B: Navakat Basic Vocabulary (by Anju Saxena and Padam Sagar) 4 A Linguistic Sketch of Kinnauri Pahari 1 Introduction 2 Phonology 3 Noun Phrase 4 The Verb Complex 5 Clauses and Sentences Appendix 4A: Some Comparisons between Kinnauri Pahari and Other Pahari Languages Appendix 4B: Kinnauri Pahari Basic Vocabulary (by Anju Saxena and Vikram Negi) 5 Linguistic Relationships in Kinnaur I: Sino-Tibetan 1 Introduction 2 Data Collection 3 Methodology 4 Towards Linguistically Informed Computational Lexicostatistics 5 Results: Vocabulary 6 Results: Grammatical Features 7 KST Varieties and Their Classification Appendix 5A: Questionnaire Items and Vocabulary Comparison Tables 6 Linguistic Relationships in Kinnaur II: Language Contact between Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan 1 Introduction 2 Language Contact in Kinnaur 3 Kinnauri and Kinnauri Pahari: Shared Linguistic Features 4 Summary 7 The Many-Faceted Linguistic Landscape of Kinnaur References Index
