A Grammar of Jero: With a Historical Comparative Study of the Kiranti Languages (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, 5/3) - Hardcover

Opgenort, Jean Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004145052 ISBN 13: 9789004145054

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2005

Synopsis

This description of the phonology, morphology and syntax of the endangered (Tibeto-Burman) Jero language as spoken in eastern Nepal, appears in sequel to the author's 2004 Grammar of Wambule, the language most closely related to Jero. It pictures the complex-pronominalising language of the Jero Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal. With a historical comparative study of the Kiranti languages, the branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family to which both Jero and Wambule belong. An exhaustive and model reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology and linguistic theory. With financial support of the International Institute for Asian Studies.

Readership: All those interested in Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology, linguistic theory and Kiranti society and culture.

About this title

About the Author

Jean Robert M.L. Opgenort, Ph.D. (2002) in Descriptive Linguistics, Leiden University, is post-doctoral fellow at Leiden University. He has written A Grammar of Wambule (2004) and published several articles on the Kiranti languages of the Himalayas.

Review

"I know of no better source for the wealth of comparative Kiranti data or a more informed phonological reconstruction."
Gwendolyn Hyslop, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Volume 32.1 (April 2009)

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 9004145052
• ISBN 13: 9789004145054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432