The Yakkha verb

Interpretation and analysis of the Omruwa material (a Kiranti language of eastern Nepal)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2823960
AutoresGeorge Van Driem (0000-0002-7185-0657, Leiden University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen57
Número2
Páginas347-355
Fecha de publicación1994-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00024915
OpenAlexW2126869526
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas15

In 1989 Jadranka Gvozdanović published data of the 'Yakkhaba' transitive verbal paradigm. In the present paper these data are identified as Yakkha, re-arranged and interpreted. Comparisons are made with other Kiranti verbal agreement systems and with my model of the Proto-Kiranti verb.1.Yakkhaba, Yakkha and YakthungbaKiranti languages are native to eastern Nepal and the western fringe of Sikkim. The Kiranti branch of the Tibeto-Burman is characterized by verbal morphologies which by Tibeto-Burman standards may be called complex. The Kiranti languages are traditionally divided into Limbu, Yakkha and the Rai languages. Limbu, at the far eastern extent of the Kiranti homeland, has several dialects, of which(Weidert and Subba, 1985) and Phedāppe (van Driem, 1987) are the best described. Yakkha occupies an intermediate position and is spoken in the vicinity of Cainpur in Saṅkhuvā Sabhā district on the slopes east of the Arūṇ river. Rai (Nep. Rāī) is a highly heterogeneous group of languages. This has to do with the fact that the name Rai, although convenient, is not a proper linguistic designation, but represents what in Nepal is perceived to be an ethnic grouping

Agreement · Ethnic group · Geography · Homeland · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Transitive relation · Verb · Anthropology · History · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Mathematics · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism