Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics/edited by Yogendra Yadava,
Govinda Bhattarai, Ram Raj Lohani, Balaram Prasain and Krishna Parajuli. Kathmandu,
Linguistic Society of Nepal, 2005, x, 586 p., tables, figs., (pbk). ISBN
99946-57-69-0.
Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics/edited by Yogendra Yadava,
Govinda Bhattarai, Ram Raj Lohani, Balaram Prasain and Krishna Parajuli. Kathmandu,
Linguistic Society of Nepal, 2005, x, 586 p., tables, figs., (pbk). ISBN
99946-57-69-0.
Contents: Preface. 1. Two types of Nepali correlatives/Corinna Anderson. 2. New connections, old exclusions? Language, power and ICTs/Martha Caddell and Pat Hall. 3. Worshipping the King God: a preliminary analysis of Chintang ritual language in the invocation of Rajdeu/Martin Gaenszle, Balthasar Bickel, Goma Banjade, Elena Lieven, Netra Paudyal, Ichchha Rai, Manoj Rai, Novel Kishor Rai and Sabine Stoll. 4. Automated part-of-speech analysis of Urdu: conceptual and technical issues/Andrew Hardie. 5. Pro-verbs and event classification in Kathmandu Newar discourse/David Hargreaves. 6. Phonological processing for Urdu text to speech system/Sarmad Hussain. 7. Classifier systems in Newar: a historical perspective/Tej R. Kansakar. 8. Coordinate syntagmas as naming units in Hindi/Svetislav Kostic. 9. Postposition incorporation and internally headed relative clauses in Hmar/Rajesh Kumar and Karumuri V. Subbarao. 10. Dialect comprehensibility, language attitudes, and bilingualism among the Bayung Rais in Okhaldhunga and Solukhumbu districts/Maureen Lee. 11. Spatial reference in Chantyal/Michael Noonan. 12. Strategies of pronominalization in Kusunda/Madhav P. Pokharel. 13. Clause combining in Dhankute Tamang/Kedar Prasad Poudel. 14. Triplication and ideophones in Chintang/Novel Rai Kishore, Balthasar Bickel, Goma Banjade, Martin Gaenszle, Elena Lieven, Netra P. Paudyal, Ichchha Purna Rai, Manoj Rai and Sabine Stoll. 15. Case suffixes in Kiranti-Koits/Lal Rapacha. 16. Personal and possessive pronouns in Puma (Southern Kiranti)/Narayan P. Sharma (Gautam), Balthasar Bickel, Martin Gaenszle, Arjun Rai and Vishnu S. Rai. 17. Bhae wo: ta-ta-ma-ma/Uma Shrestha. 18. Early stages in Sino-Tibetan linguistic comparison/R.K. Sprigg. 19. Negativization in Chhatthare Limbu/Govinda Bahadur Tumbahang. 20. The morphophonology of Thangmi: a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal/Mark Turin. 21. Sino-Austronesian vs. Sino-Caucasian, Sino-Bodic vs Sino-Tibetan, and Tibeto-Burman as default theory/George van Driem. 22. An overview of Kham-Magar languages and dialects/David E. Watters. 23. Kusunda: a typological isolate in South Asia/David E. Watters. 24. Verb categories in Dzongkha: overt marking of syntactic and semantic transitivity/Stephen Watters. 25. Notes on Rajbanshi phonology and orthography development/Christopher P. Wilde. 26. Envisioning machine translation for the new millennium: an outline of preliminary steps in Nepal/Yogendra P. Yadava, Govinda Raj Bhattarai, Sanat Kumar Bista, Birendra Keshari and Jagannath Bhatta. 27. Sequential converbal constructions in Indo-Aryan/Yogendra P. Yadava. 28. Note on the evolution of Newari infinitival suffix -e/Yogesh Raj. Research Notes: 1. On the machine translation of programming (artificial) languages into natural languages/Santa Bdr Basnet, Shailesh Bdr Pandy and Yogesh Raj. 2. Mood in Danuwar/Bhabendra Bhandari. 3. Nominalized verb forms in Tamang/Krishna Prasad Chalise. 4. A linguistic analysis of online communication/Bhim Lal Gautam and Santosh Sapkota. 5. Changing trend in language test/Tirth Raj Khaniya. 6. Aspects in Kumal/Krishna P. Parajuli. 7. Thus spake Poshak: linguistic development of a 20 month old child/Lekhnath S. Pathak. 8. Attributive adjective: a common tendency in Newar syntax/Jyoti Pradhan. 9. Endangered language, moribund language and killer languages/Vishnu S. Rai. 10. Morphosyntaz of relativization in the Bhujel language: typological perspective/Dan Raj Regmi. 11. Finite verb markets in Dhulikhel Newari Dialect/Rudra Laxmi Shrestha. 12. Classifiers in Kiranti-Rodung (Camling)/Bagdevi Yalungcha. Keynote address: Politics, education, and the labour pains of linguistics in Nepal/Kamal P. Malla. Presidential address/Novel Kishore Rai. About contributors.
"CINL is an attempt to incorporate recent papers from native and foreign linguistics working on Nepalese languages and their related issues. This volume contains more than three dozens of papers of wide ranging themes in Nepalese linguistics. These papers belong to diverse linguistic fields such as phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics and natural language processing, orthography etc. They can be of enormous help in understanding the different aspects of Nepalese languages in particular as well as in evaluating the empirical adequacy of typological and theoretical issues about language in general."