Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives
Edited by Foong Ha Yap, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona
[Typological Studies in Language, 96] 2011. xvii, 796 pp.
Karen Grunow-Hårsta
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karen Grunow-Hårsta plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2011 Innovation in nominalization in Magar: A Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona (eds.), pp. 215–254 | Article
The focus of this paper is innovation in the nominalization system of Magar, a Central Himalayish language, belonging to the Bodic sub-phylum of Tibeto-Burman, and spoken largely in central Nepal. Nominalization is a prominent feature of Bodic, and many of these languages including Magar have… read more
2011 Introduction: Nominalization strategies in Asian languages Nominalization in Asian Languages: Diachronic and typological perspectives, Yap, Foong Ha, Karen Grunow-Hårsta and Janick Wrona (eds.), pp. 1–58 | Article
This paper examines a wide range of nominalization strategies found in Asian languages, and identifies robust grammaticalization pathways that trace the life of versatile nominalizers, particularly those that develop from light nouns and noun phrase markers such as classifiers, plural markers,… read more
2002 5. Posture verbs in two Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal The Linguistics of Sitting, Standing and Lying, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 79–101 | Chapter