Full Description
This 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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
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
