Gwendolyn Hyslop

Tim Thornes

Erik Andvik

Joana Jansen

Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas — southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All of the papers appeal, in one way or another, to functional-historical approaches to explanation. Behind this appeal lies an assumption that languages are selective in their development in ways that are dependent upon the communicative tasks to which they are put. As such, language function accounts for both variation and historical development over time.

In honor of Scott DeLancey

Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation

A grammar of Kurtöp presents the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of Kurtöp, a Tibeto-Burman language of northeastern Bhutan. When possible, data are presented in a comparative light, lending insight into the development of phenomena such as tonogenesis and nominalizations.

A Grammar of Kurtöp

Stephen Morey

Mark W. Post

Papers presented at the first international meeting of North East Indian Linguistic Society, held in February 2006, at Gauhati University, Assam, India.

Gwendolyn Hyslop

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