Papers by Ismael Lieberherr
North East Indian Linguistics (NEIL) 7, 2015
This paper presents a progress report on the historical phonology of Puroik. The first part lists... more This paper presents a progress report on the historical phonology of Puroik. The first part lists recurrent correspondences between three Puroik dialects, including the two hitherto undescribed varieties of Kojo-Rojo and Bulu, and proposes reconstructions for Proto-Puroik, the hypothetical common ancestor of these languages. As an external control the reconstruction was further compared with Kuki-Chin (data from (VanBik 2009)). Based on these comparisons and a brief lexico-statistical evaluation, possible hypotheseses for the phylogenetic affiliation of Puroik are evaluated.
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Bulu Puroik is one among several non-mutually intelligible Puroik languages spoken in Arunachal P... more Bulu Puroik is one among several non-mutually intelligible Puroik languages spoken in Arunachal Pradesh and belongs to the Kho-Bwa branch of the Trans-Himalayan language family. By the time of the research for this grammar, the language was already disappearing and was only spoken by a small number of speakers in the village of Bulu. The goal of this grammar is to provide a first grammatical description of the most important traits of the Bulu Puroik language. The introductory chapter 1 gives background information about the speakers and the village of Bulu. In the following chapter 2, the phonology of the segments, syllables and words is discussed. Word classes are established according to semantic, morphological and syntactic criteria in chapter 3. The remaining chapters describe the most important aspects of Bulu Puroik morphosyntax, namely noun phrases (chapter 4), the structure of verbal predicates (chapter 5), predicate derivations which add adverbial or aspectual meaning to the predicate (chapter 6), nonverbal predicates and copula constructions (chapter 7), the structure of the clause and the particular way of marking objects (chapter 8), multi-clause constructions (chapter 9) and discourse particles and pragmatic constructions (chapter 10). The last chapter is an outline of the vocabulary and syntax of other registers of the language, the hunting language, the ritual language and the story language. The appendix contains a collection of 12 annotated texts and a Puroik-English dictionary. The primary data for this grammar, including the annotated audio and video recordings and the lexicon with audio and image files, are archived and freely accessible on https://zenodo.org/.
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Papers by Ismael Lieberherr
Books by Ismael Lieberherr