The Yakkha verb

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

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ID2823960
AutoresGeorge Van Driem (0000-0002-7185-0657, Leiden University, autor correspondente)
Ano1994
Volume57
Fascículo2
Páginas347-355
Data de publicação1994-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0041977x00024915
OpenAlexW2126869526
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências 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