Tibetan
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Tibetan
(London Oriental and African language library, v. 3)
John Benjamins Pub., c1999
- : eur
- : us
Available at 19 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [307]-356
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Tibetan language comprises a wide range of spoken and written varieties whose known history dates from the 7th century AD to the present day. Its speakers inhabit a vast area in Central Asia and the Himalayas extending into seven modern nation states, while its abundant literature includes much of vital importance to the study of Buddhism. After surveying all the known varieties of Tibetan, including their geographical and historical background, this book concentrates on a phonological and grammatical description of the modern spoken Lhasa dialect, the standard spoken variety. The grammatical framework which has been specially devised to describe this variety is then applied to the written varieties of Preclassical and Classical Tibetan, demonstrating the fundamental unity of the language. The writing system is outlined, though all examples and texts are given in roman script and where appropriate, the International Phonetic Alphabet. The volume includes a comprehensive bibliography.
Table of Contents
- 1. Map
- 2. Preface
- 3. Acknowledgements
- 4. Abbreviations
- 5. Transcription of Tibetan
- 6. 1. Geography
- 7. 2. History
- 8. 3. Varieties of Tibetan
- 9. 4. Levels of Analysis
- 10. 5. Graphology
- 11. 6. Phonology
- 12. 7. Nouns and Noun Phrases
- 13. 8. Verbs
- 14. 9. Verb Phrases
- 15. 10. Serial Verbs
- 16. 11. Adjectives and Adjective Phrases
- 17. 12. Clauses
- 18. 13. Subordinate and Nominalised Clauses
- 19. 14. Preclassical and Classical Tibetan
- 20. 15. Texts
- 21. Appendices
- 22. Bibliography
- 23. Particle Index
- 24. General Index
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