Опубликовано в: D. Paperno, E.L. Keenan (eds.), Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II, Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 97, 2017. — pp. 431-451. Quantification in Kusunda can be generally described as involving radical under- specification. Many syntactic traits of quantification are shared in outline with other kinds of modification in the phrase and in the...
Language, Volume 90, Number 3, September 2014, pp. 737-745. Negative structures are generally assumed to be maximally accessible for verbal predicates, as evidenced by the requirement in many languages that nonverbal predicates be supported by a verb when negated. Indeed, the term ‘standard negation’ is used to refer to the negation of a declarative verbal clause, and yet this is...
Nepalese Linguistics, Vol. 29, 2014, pp. 152-157. This paper examines the different categories of demonstrative deixis in Kusunda, a language isolate of western Nepal. Our corpus, based on naturalistic data, evidences a much wider range of contrasts than is attested in earlier, elicitation based work. We show that while there is no evidence for any linguistic encoding of the...
Man In India, 97 (1). — pp. 111–204. The Dene-Yenisseian hypothesis (Vajda 2010a, 2013) linking the Yenisseian languages and the Na-Dene languages has gained some attention as the first substantial proposal of a linguistic connection across the Bering Strait. At the same time, morphological material has been interpreted as evidence for a genealogical relationship between...
Linguistic Society of Nepal. Presented to the Fourth Round Table International Conference on Ethnogenesis of South and Central Asia, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA. May 11 - 13, 2002. - 14 p. The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal is extremely rich and complex in cultural as well as linguistic diversity. The diversity as such is mainly because there live diverse ethnic groups of...
The Fifth Harvard Roundtable on Ethnogenesis of South and Central Asia. — Cambridge MA, USA, May 10 - 11, 2003. — 7 p. Kusundas, previously foraging people around the Himalayas; believed to be remnants of some broken tribe during the great transitional eras of society are ‘deemed very precious with ethnic facts of high values by all the real students of ethnology .’ [Hodgson...
Tribhuvan University, 2006. — 182 p.
No one could have guessed, early in 2004, that before the year was out we would get lucky with Kusunda. At the time, all we had were a couple of word lists, one from the 1850s and another from the 1970s; plus a short text that was largely uninterpretable. We knew almost nothing about the grammar – doubly lamentable in light of the fact that...
PNAS April 13, 2004 (vol. 101). — 4 p.
The Kusunda people of central Nepal have long been regarded as a relic tribe of South Asia. They are, or were until recently, seminomadic hunter-gatherers, living in jungles and forests, with a language that shows no similarities to surrounding languages. They are often described as shorter and darker than neighboring tribes. Our research...
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