LINGUIST List 26.650

Fri Jan 30 2015

Books: Analyzed Texts in Rana Tharu: Dhakal

Editor for this issue: Sara Couture <saralinguistlist.org>

Date: 30-Jan-2015
From: Ulrich Lueders <lincom.europat-online.de>
Subject: Analyzed Texts in Rana Tharu: Dhakal
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Title: Analyzed Texts in Rana Tharu
Subtitle: with a Grammatical Sketch
Series Title: Languages of the World/Text Collection 36
Published: 2015
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
                http://www.lincom-shop.eu

Book URL: http://bit.ly/1znmMDp

Author: Dubi Nanda Dhakal
Paperback: ISBN: 9783862886142 Pages: 142 Price: Europe EURO 64.80
Abstract:

This volume is the first grammatical sketch and analyzed texts in Rana Tharu (ISO thr). This volume consists of three main sections. The first section presents the preliminary information about the Rana Tharu people and their language. Rana Tharu belongs to Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European language family. It is spoken in the Kailali and Kanchanpur districts of far western Nepal, and also in the bordering districts in India. It comprises a total of seven texts, viz. four narratives, two procedural texts and a conversation. The analyzed texts have been given in chapter three.

In addition to the analyzed texts, this volume also presents a brief grammatical sketch of Rana Tharu. The grammatical features reveal that the language is closer to Hindi than some eastern Indo-Aryan languages. Rana Tharu has 33 consonants and 6 vowels. Like in other Tharu varieties, such as Chitonia Tharu, aspiration is evidenced not only in plosives and affricates, but also in lateral, nasals, and trill. Consonant cluster is permitted both in word-initial and word-final position. Rana Tharu is predominantly a suffixing language with nominative-accusative case marking pattern. Noun formation processes are rich. One of the interesting features in verb agreement is that the transitive verbs are marked distinctly only if the subjects are the third person pronouns or noun phrases. The language is predominantly SOV in terms of its word order correlations. There is an extensive use of verb participles for adjectival and adverbial uses. The appendices include the paradigm of verb inflections, and an index of grammatical morphemes.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                            Typology

Subject Language(s): Tharu, Chitwania (the)
                            Tharu, Rana (thr)

Written In: English (eng)

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