Notes on the Kiranti verb (East Nepal)
The languages of the Kiranti group in East Nepal (see map), which I take to include Hayu, Sunwar, the languages called 'Rai', and Limbu, are noted for their complex verbal morphology, which was first described by the great pioneer of all Himalayan studies, B. H. Hodgson, in the last centur...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178659 |
| Summary: | The languages of the Kiranti group in East Nepal (see map), which I take to include Hayu, Sunwar, the languages called 'Rai', and Limbu, are noted for their complex verbal morphology, which was first described by the great pioneer of all Himalayan studies, B. H. Hodgson, in the last century. The present article includes two papers in which the method of internal reconstruction is used to study the structure of verbal roots in two of the Rai languages. A similar study of Limbu verbal roots has been made by R. K. Sprigg (1966). |
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