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Chhantyal Dictionary and Texts (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation, 17) (Trends in Linguistics Documentation)
Chhantyal Dictionary and Texts - Trends in Linguistics. Documentation, 17 - Trends in Linguistics Documentation Author:Michael Noonan, Ram Prasad Bhulanja, Jag Man Chhantyal, William Pagliuca This dictionary is the largest and most comprehensive to date for any language of the Tibeto-Burman ‘hill peoples’ of Nepal. Entries contain etymologies and examples in context drawn mostly from recorded conversations and narratives; most example sentences are keyed to published texts so that the user can examine the item in discourse context. A... more »side from the large English-Chantyal dictionary, there is also a Chantyal-English index keyed to the English-Chantyal dictionary, a set of five texts, a set of detailed kinship diagrams, and a short grammatical sketch. Michael Noonan is Professor at the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.« less