Skip navigation
Skip navigation

Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan

Toulmin, Matthew William Stirling

Description

This study outlines a methodological framework for reconstructing linguistic history within a dialect continuum and applies this methodology to an under-described, controversial, and complex subgroup of New Indo-Aryan (NIA)—the Kamta, Rajbanshi and Northern Deshi Bangla lects (KRNB). ¶ Dialect continua are characterised by non-discrete boundaries between speech communities, and as a result previously divergent lects may undergo common innovations; the result is the familiar picture of...[Show more]

CollectionsOpen Access Theses
Date published: 2006
Type: Thesis (PhD)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/45743
DOI: 10.25911/5d7a2b0c76304

Download

File Description SizeFormat Image
14appendicesE-F.pdf68.8 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
13appendixD.pdf140.42 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
12appendixC.pdf49.65 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
11appendixB.pdf386.36 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
10appendixA.pdf869.13 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
09chapter8.pdf121.58 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
08chapter7.pdf2.99 MBAdobe PDFThumbnail
07chapter6.pdf441.88 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
06chapter5.pdf485.4 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
05chapter4.pdf522.34 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
04Chapter3.pdf291.08 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
03Chapter2.pdf70.89 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
02chapter1.pdf200.02 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail
01front.pdf108.73 kBAdobe PDFThumbnail


Items in Open Research are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.

Updated:  17 November 2022/ Responsible Officer:  University Librarian/ Page Contact:  Library Systems & Web Coordinator