The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia's heart, few are researched in depth and many virtually undocumented. Historical developments and relationships between the region's languages also remain poorly understood. Thisbook brings together new work on under-researched Himalayan languages with investigations into the complexities of the area's linguistic history, offering original data and perspectives on the synchrony and diachrony of the Greater Himalayan Region. The volume...
The Himalaya and surrounding regions are amongst the world's most linguistically diverse places. Of an estimated 600 languages spoken here at Asia'...
While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at the same time sets out to establish a field of Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics based on the classical Indo-European model. The volume includes six papers on Tangut, three on Tibetan and one each on the languages Mon, Burmese, Lepcha, Pyu, Nam, and Yi. Building a bridge between linguistic and literary research the range of studies treats phonology, decipherment, literature and religion.
While providing unique and detailed information on early Tibeto-Burman languages and their contact and relationship to other languages, this book at t...
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of the Year A Washington Post 2016 Notable Book A Slate Top Ten Book"Nathan Hill is a maestro." --John Irving
It's 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades--not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she's reappeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as...
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Entertainment Weekly's #1 Book of the Year A Washington Post 2016 Notable B...
The instant New York Times No. 5 bestseller, a gloriously ambitious, witty and deeply touching debut novel of fifty years of America and of American radical protest, the story of a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own.
The instant New York Times No. 5 bestseller, a gloriously ambitious, witty and deeply touching debut novel of fifty years of America and of American r...
Samuel Anderson je v krizi. Učí sice literaturu na univerzitě, ale dluží nakladateli román, za který už dostal zaplaceno, ale nenapsal z něj ani čárku, marní čas hraním počítačových her a nechal si uniknout životní lásku. K tomu všemu se ještě trápí prastarou křivdou: když mu bylo jedenáct, utekla jeho maminka od rodiny. Nyní se však dlouho ztracená matka vrací z nečekaného směru – všechna média dokola propírají senzační zprávu: „Neznámá žena zaútočila na republikánského prezidentského kandidáta Packera kamením! Kdo je to a proč to...
Samuel Anderson je v krizi. Učí sice literaturu na univerzitě, ale dluží nakladateli román, za který už dostal zaplaceno, ale nenapsal z něj ...
