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Title: North East Indian Linguistics: Volume 5
Contributor(s): Hyslop, Gwendolyn (editor); Morey, Stephen (editor); Post, Mark  (editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15736
Abstract: It goes without saying that North East India is one of the most attractive areas on earth in terms of linguistic endeavors. Like its biological diversity, it is a homeland of various ethnic peoples and tribes, as well as their languages, belonging to four broadly-recognized families: Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan, Austro-Asiatic and Tai-Kadai. For the last few decades, western scholars and local Indian scholars have been working on many languages in North East India. Although I am a newcomer in the field of North East Indian Linguistics, I find much research into various languages in the region to be very successful, not to mention the award-winning 'Grammar of Galo' by Mark W. Post. In this sense, I believe that NEILS, where various scholars get together, whether they are highly-accomplished senior scholars or students, provides an excellent forum for presenting the outcomes of linguistic endeavors by foreign and local scholars who work on North East Indian languages, and that it brings a good chemistry to the field. In past NEILS conferences, some Japanese scholars (myself included) participated as well. However, currently there is a relatively small population of Japanese scholars who work on North East Indian languages. Since the advent of Buddhism in Japan in the eighth century, Sanskrit has been the most studied Indian languages in Japan. In the context of Buddhism, Tibetan and Burmese are also actively studied in Japan. Alongside studies of these two languages, other Tibeto-Burman languages are studied as well, especially those spoken in China and Myanmar. However, there are not so many scholars who have been working on North East Indian languages. I was curious about scholars working on North East Indian languages in Japan, and so I checked out as many as I was able to. Therefore, in this Foreword, I would like to take the opportunity to introduce some of the research by Japanese scholars into North East Indian languages, as some of this work might otherwise escape the attention of western and Indian audiences.
Publication Type: Book
Publisher: Foundation Books
Place of Publication: New Delhi, India
ISBN: 9789382264729
Fields of Research (FOR) 2008: 200317 Other Asian Languages (excl South-East Asian)
200315 Indian Languages
200408 Linguistic Structures (incl Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470318 Other Asian languages (excl. South-East Asian)
470311 Indian languages
470409 Linguistic structures (incl. phonology, morphology and syntax)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture
950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture
950203 Languages and Literature
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130201 Communication across languages and culture
280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies
HERDC Category Description: A3 Book - Edited
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191362448
Extent of Pages: 303
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