Martin Gaenszle
Biographic Data
| ID | 209480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Gaenszle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaenszle |
| SIGNATURE | GAENSZLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0782-1413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Increasing Materiality and Emerging Concepts of Ethnic Religious Identity
Traditionally lacking temples, mass processions, pilgrimage traditions, full time ritual specialists, or painting traditions, religious practice among the Rai of eastern Nepal was until recently characterized by low visibility. After the ‘People’s War’ at the turn of the millennium, new political ideas understand religion as one of the core features of ethnic identity. Since this reconceptualization of the ‘New Nepal’, an increase of materiality,…
Satyahangma rituals
The new Kirati religion founded by the spiritual leader and ‘national luminary’ Mahaguru Phalgunanda Lingden (1885–1949) is a unique blend of an ethnic tradition marked by shamanic practice and elements of Hinduism. Little is known about the ritual practice performed by the Mahaguru himself and his disciples. However, today, the principal successor, Atmananda Lingden, is propagating his version of the Satyahangma religion and building a large com…
Nouns and verbs in Chintang
Analyzing the development of the noun-to-verb ratio in a longitudinal corpus of four Chintang (Sino-Tibetan) children, we find that up to about age four, children have a significantly higher ratio than adults. Previous cross-linguistic research rules out an explanation of this in terms of a universal noun bias; instead, a likely cause is that Chintang verb morphology is polysynthetic and difficult to learn. This hypothesis is supported by the fac…
Binomials and the Noun-to-Verb Ratio in Puma Rai Ritual Speech
This article examines the pairing of nouns in the type of parallelism known as binominals, expressions of paired words, in Puma Rai ritual speech. Using a large corpus of ritual and everyday language texts resulting from a language documentation project among the Puma Rai in Nepal, we explore the characteristics of ritual binomials and provide a quantitative analysis of noun-to-verb ratios in the two major ritual speech genres (shamanic and pries…
Studies in Ditransitive Constructions
This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions: constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents…
Ritual und Verschriftlichung
Free Prefix Ordering in Chintang
This article demonstrates prefix permutability in Chintang (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal) that is not constrained by any semantic or morphosyntactic structure, or by any dialect, sociolect, or idiolect choice-a phenomenon ruled out by standard assumptions about grammatical words. The prefixes are fully fledged parts of grammatical words and are different from clitics on a large number of standard criteria. The analysis of phonological word domains suggest…
Countering the Great Traditions
Verwandtschaft und Mythologie bei den Mewahang Rai in Ostnepal
Verwandtschaft und Mythologie bei den Mehawang Rai in Ostnepal
Neue Forschungen im Himalaya
Schamanen auf dem Dach der Welt
Free Prefix Ordering in Chintang
This article demonstrates prefix permutability in Chintang (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal) that is not constrained by any semantic or morphosyntactic structure, or by any dialect, sociolect, or idiolect choice-a phenomenon ruled out by standard assumptions about grammatical words. The prefixes are fully fledged parts of grammatical words and are different from clitics on a large number of standard criteria. The analysis of phonological word domains suggest…
Binomials and the Noun-to-Verb Ratio in Puma Rai Ritual Speech
This article examines the pairing of nouns in the type of parallelism known as binominals, expressions of paired words, in Puma Rai ritual speech. Using a large corpus of ritual and everyday language texts resulting from a language documentation project among the Puma Rai in Nepal, we explore the characteristics of ritual binomials and provide a quantitative analysis of noun-to-verb ratios in the two major ritual speech genres (shamanic and pries…
Neue Forschungen im Himalaya
Schamanen auf dem Dach der Welt
Verwandtschaft und Mythologie bei den Mehawang Rai in Ostnepal
Verwandtschaft und Mythologie bei den Mewahang Rai in Ostnepal
Countering the Great Traditions
Free Prefix Ordering in Chintang
This article demonstrates prefix permutability in Chintang (Sino-Tibetan, Nepal) that is not constrained by any semantic or morphosyntactic structure, or by any dialect, sociolect, or idiolect choice-a phenomenon ruled out by standard assumptions about grammatical words. The prefixes are fully fledged parts of grammatical words and are different from clitics on a large number of standard criteria. The analysis of phonological word domains suggest…
Ritual und Verschriftlichung
Studies in Ditransitive Constructions
This rich volume deals comprehensively with cross-linguistic variation in the morphosyntax of ditransitive constructions: constructions formed with verbs (like give) that take Agent, Theme and Recipient arguments. For the first time, a broadly cross-linguistic perspective is adopted. The present volume, consisting of an overview article and twenty-odd in-depth studies of ditransitive constructions in individual languages from different continents…
Binomials and the Noun-to-Verb Ratio in Puma Rai Ritual Speech
This article examines the pairing of nouns in the type of parallelism known as binominals, expressions of paired words, in Puma Rai ritual speech. Using a large corpus of ritual and everyday language texts resulting from a language documentation project among the Puma Rai in Nepal, we explore the characteristics of ritual binomials and provide a quantitative analysis of noun-to-verb ratios in the two major ritual speech genres (shamanic and pries…
Nouns and verbs in Chintang
Analyzing the development of the noun-to-verb ratio in a longitudinal corpus of four Chintang (Sino-Tibetan) children, we find that up to about age four, children have a significantly higher ratio than adults. Previous cross-linguistic research rules out an explanation of this in terms of a universal noun bias; instead, a likely cause is that Chintang verb morphology is polysynthetic and difficult to learn. This hypothesis is supported by the fac…
Satyahangma rituals
The new Kirati religion founded by the spiritual leader and ‘national luminary’ Mahaguru Phalgunanda Lingden (1885–1949) is a unique blend of an ethnic tradition marked by shamanic practice and elements of Hinduism. Little is known about the ritual practice performed by the Mahaguru himself and his disciples. However, today, the principal successor, Atmananda Lingden, is propagating his version of the Satyahangma religion and building a large com…
Increasing Materiality and Emerging Concepts of Ethnic Religious Identity
Traditionally lacking temples, mass processions, pilgrimage traditions, full time ritual specialists, or painting traditions, religious practice among the Rai of eastern Nepal was until recently characterized by low visibility. After the ‘People’s War’ at the turn of the millennium, new political ideas understand religion as one of the core features of ethnic identity. Since this reconceptualization of the ‘New Nepal’, an increase of materiality,…
Philosophy (7 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works)